78 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



After much unprofitable wrangling a compromise 

 was effected. It was agreed that the pedigrees 

 should be arranged in four sections: mottle-face, 

 white-face, grey and light greys, precedence to be 

 given in the order named. Only bulls were regis- 

 tered in the initial volume. 



The book appeared in July, 1846, and carried the 

 names of 551 animals. It contained colored draw- 

 ings of four bulls illustrating the varieties rec- 

 ognized: Tomkins' Wellington (4), mottled face; 

 Price's Victory (35), grey; Jeffries' Cotmore (376), 

 white face; and Kicket's Broxwood (485), light grey. 



Eyton's Editorial Troubles. Much interesting 

 information concerning individual celebrities was 

 incorporated, and but for Mr. Eyton's patient ef- 

 forts much of this would never have been handed 

 down. . The Herefordshire Agricultural Society in 

 1849 thanked the compiler for the benefit conferred 

 and urged all to extend him support. Notwithstand- 

 ing all this, however, it was six years before he was 

 able to announce the second volume containing the 

 record of 350 more bulls. In this volume he still 

 complained that many breeders had failed to supply 

 desired information, in view of which fact he an- 

 nounced that it was not his intention to carry the 

 work further unless breeders generally came for- 

 ward and heartily co-operated. Whereupon the 

 Herefordshire Agricultural Society passed a memo- 

 rial pledging its members to support and to purchase 

 copies of the work. This was coupled, however, with 

 a request that subsequent volumes be published "in 



