6 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE. 



respond to repeated requests for certain informa- 

 tion, necessitating an approach through channels 

 sometimes perhaps not so reliable, but in these cases 

 every effort has been made to arrive at the truth. 

 While this has led to disappointment in certain in- 

 stances, we are happy to be able to say that for the 

 most part those who have been consulted in refer- 

 ence to data relating to matters that have long since 

 passed into history, have been more than generous 

 in extending assistance. To undertake to mention 

 by name all those who have, at more or less cost to 

 themselves, supplied facts essential to the develop- 

 ment of this long story of the Hereford, would be to 

 burden unnecessarily pages already perhaps too 

 numerous. 



To all those therefore who have so kindly and pa- 

 tiently answered the thousand and one questions 

 which have had to be put, not only throughout all 

 America but in England as well, in connection with 

 the preparation of the text, the author returns his 

 most heartfelt thanks. Without their valued help 

 this book would have been a mere compilation of 

 matter that has already been presented in various 

 forms. As it is, the volume represents considerable 

 original research work, and will, therefore, it is 

 hoped, constitute a contribution to the literature of 

 the breed not wholly without justification. 



The writer confesses to an abiding appreciation 

 of white-faced cattle as a prime factor in the beef 

 production of our continent, and has undertaken 

 this volume at the urgent request of some of their 



