74 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



imity to John Price led to free crossing of the Walk- 

 er cattle wi.th the Tomkins blood. 



Eev. J. E. Smythies of Lynch Court began about 

 1806. He championed the mottled faces and drew 

 largely for his material from the herds of Tomkins, 

 Price, Yarworth, Skyrme, Tully and Walker. He 

 was for a long series of years one of the most en- 

 thusiastic supporters of the breed and as late as 

 1849 challenged the kingdom to show four two- 

 year-old Hereford bullocks and four yearlings at 

 Smithfield against eight Shorthorns or Devons of 

 like age for 100 guineas, but nothing came of it. 



Theophilus Salwey of Ashley Moor, a disciple of 

 Knight, bred Herefords for some forty years and 

 had good success in manipulating the Downton Cas- 

 tle strains. The great show and breeding bull Sir An- 

 drew gave the herd its first repute and Mr. Knight, 

 who frequently saw the herd, testified that many of 

 the animals at Ashley Moor were an improvement 

 upon his own. The herd was dispersed in 1844. 



T. C. Yeld of The Broome, who began about 1820. 

 was the son of a Herefordshire grazier and when he 

 took up breeding his practical knowledge of cattle 

 soon brought success. Between 1829 and 1849 he 

 won not less than 25 prizes at the Herefordshire 

 show, but one other breeder Eoberts of Ivington- 

 bury of that period carrying away a greater num- 

 ber during the same years. He used among other 

 noted sires Mr. Knight's Snowball (246) ; Eed Eobin 

 (263), sire of Smithfield winners; Young Cupid 

 (259), a great winner and sire of prize-winners; 



