TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I HEREFORDSHIRE PASTURES AND PIONEERS. 

 The Vale of the Severn The County of Hereford Hereford- 

 shire farming The pastures Persistency rewarded 

 Long famous for good cattle Whence the white face? 

 Some of the pathfinders Disinterested praise 23-46 



CHAPTER II EARLY ENGLISH IMPROVERy. 

 Benjamin Tomkins John Price The Hewers The Jeffries 

 Knight of Downton Castle In the Hall of Fame Pedigree 

 registration established Color quarrel compromised Ey- 

 ton's editorial troubles Sold for a song Mr. Duckham's 

 valuable service Practical farmers in control 47-80 



CHAPTER III SOME ENGLISH BREED-BUILDERS AND THE^R 



WORK. 



The strange story of Sir David The Reas of Monaughty and 

 Westonbury The Sir Benjamin era Tudge of .Adforton 

 Benjamin Rogers Sir Thomas described The Prices of 

 Court House Mr. John Hill's comment on Horace Monk- 

 house of The Stow Lord Berwick Taylor of Showle 

 Court Wintercott Roberts of Ivingtonbury Carwardine 

 Anxiety (5188) Lord Wilton (4740) The Turners of 

 The Leen The Grove 3d Felhampton Court J. H. Ark- 

 wright The Leinthall herd 81-145 



CHAPTER IV BRITISH SHOWS AND THEIR INFLUENCE. 

 At Oxford and Cambridge Bristol, Derby and Southampton- 

 Shrewsbury and Newcastle Northampton, York and Nor- 

 wich Exeter, Windsor and Walford Lewes, Gloucester 

 and Lincoln Carlisle, Chelmsford and Salisbury Chester. 

 Warwick and Canterbury Leeds, and the Battersea Inter- 

 national Worcester and Sir Thomas Newcastle, Ply- 

 mouth and the rinderpest 147-179 



CHAPTE.R V MORE ROYAL DECISIONS REVIEWED. 

 Leicester a turning point as to scale Quality again triumphs 

 at Manchester Rogers and his tall herdsman Stanway, 

 Silver Star and the Australians Wolverhampton and Car- 

 diffHull and Bedford The dam of old Anxiety The 

 Taunton Show of 1875 Lord Wilton as a yearling Big 

 good classes at Birmingham Anxiety appears at Liver- 

 pool The Bristol winners The Kilburn International 

 afloat Lord Wilton and a blundering bailiff Anxiety 



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