HEREFORDSHIRE PASTURES AND PIONEERS 37 



References to the paintings of old masters reveal 

 the fact that red and white spotted animals were 

 numerous. In fact, various colors were met with in 

 Netherland herds. Hence the statement made by 

 several writers that these Scudamore cattle were 

 "red with white face" is not improbable. As they 

 were apparently well received in Herefordshire they 

 doubtless left their impress upon the native reds, 

 stamping here and there a white face on their 

 progeny. 



This Flemish importation into Herefordshire is 

 of special interest when viewed in the light of cer- 

 tain other facts. Similar blood entered into the' 

 foundation of the early Shorthorns. Cattle from 

 the same source and doubtless of a similar type 

 were introduced into Yorkshire and Durham not 

 long prior to the birth of the improved Shorthorn 

 by Sir William St. Quentin and Michael Dobinson 

 and doubtless accentuated the tendency to broken 

 colors that became a permanent characteristic of 

 the Shorthorn breed. It is known that white faces 

 were not altogether rare among the early Teeswater 

 cattle. Jacob Smith's Bull (608) of Coates' Short- 

 horn Herd Book, sire of the dam of the far-famed 

 "beautiful Lady Maynard" was described by Bates 

 as "yellow red, white face, white back and white 

 legs to knee." 



There is a tradition in the Galliers family of a 

 "red bull from Yorkshire with a white face and 

 rather wide horns" having been brought intp Here- 

 fordshire about 1750, that "his produce became 



