CHAPTER III. 



SOME ENGLISH BEEED-BUILDEES AND 

 THEIR WORK. 



Having detailed in the preceding chapters the sow- 

 ing of the original seed, we shall now note briefly how 

 a succeeding generation cultivated in Herefordshire 

 the field that was presently to yield such a golden 

 harvest. It is a plain, unvarnished tale of steadfast 

 devotion to an ideal, of faithful honest breeding 

 along intensely practical lines, untrammeled by the 

 bondage that is imposed by the following of fads and 

 fancies. Only the more marked successes can be men- 

 tioned. The task of doing full justice to the rank 

 and file of England's modern breeders of the Here- 

 ford must be left to old-country scribes. Our work 

 is mainly with the newer and larger field into which 

 the breed has now entered in the Western Hemi- 

 sphere. So, we touch in dealing with the middle and 

 more modern stages of the breed in its native land 

 those points mainly that connect up directly with the 

 American trade, the object being to give the stu- 

 dent of Hereford breeding as it exists in the United 

 States a general idea of the sources from whence our 

 present-day herd book stock was principally derived. 



Certain names are so frequently encountered in 

 the examination of Hereford records that the fol- 



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