38 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



fashionable " and that "he laid the foundation of 

 the present famous breed. " While this latter claim 

 is not allowed, in the light of all the evidence there 

 is no reason for questioning the fact of this Tees- 

 water bull's importation and none whatever for 

 doubting the statement as to his color. That his 

 get may have been appreciated and used for breed- 

 ing purposes is altogether probable. It would ap- 

 pear, therefore, that at least one little link of kinship 

 existed between the ancestors of the first Short- 

 horns and the forbears of the modern Hereford. 



Still another candidate for the honor of "origi- 

 nating" the white face appears. The birth of a 

 male calf with a white face in the herd of one of the 

 Tullys of Huntington about the middle of the 

 eighteenth century was considered by the cowman 

 so remarkable, or else that peculiar marking was 

 considered so desirable, that it was at once decided 

 that the calf should be retained on that account for 

 breeding purposes, and one writer, Rowlandson, 

 says that his progeny afterwards "became cele- 

 brated for white faces." Although the Tully cattle 

 became important factors in the subsequent evolu- 

 tion of the breed, it will scarcely do to credit this 

 one calf, as some have seemed disposed to do, with 

 being the real source of the now universal Here- 

 ford badge. He doubtless helped to fix it, but there 

 was already a marked trend towards white mark- 

 ings, including the white face, resulting from the 

 use of the Welsh, Flemish and possibly Teeswater 

 bloods. 



