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had also been the first prize bull calf at Norwich. To 

 this day old breeders in Herefordshire recall this 

 show season as "Sir David's year." However, he 

 had other years, many in fact and all full of hon- 

 ors. At Ludlow in 1850 he again was crowned 

 champion of all British bulls on exhibition. 



Having such a good promise as Pembridge in 

 sight, Edward Price after three years' use of Sir 

 David sold him to go out of the country. James 

 Lumsden of Auchtry House, Aberdeenshire, Scot- 

 land took him off to the North, to show the canny 

 Scots that there were other great cattle in the world 

 beside their own black "humlies" and the Sittyton, 

 or Cruickshank, Shorthorns. But the wise men of 

 those days in Hereford had enterprise enough to go 

 bring him back to where his wonderful procreative 

 powers might find full sweep for the best interest of 

 the local breed. So he came home. Turner of The 

 Noke, breeder of Chance's dam, got him. It would 

 be interesting to know all the facts that led to Sir 

 David's repeated transfers, but it is probable that 

 they grew out of the general competition that evi- 

 dently ensued as to his possession. He next ap- 

 peared as owned by Mr. Higgins of Woolaston 

 Grange, Chepstow, and finally -landed in the fine old 

 herd of Lord Berwick of Cronkhill, at which place he 

 did not become useless until his fifteenth year when 

 he was fed off to the butcher. 



The Reas of Monaughty and Westonbury. 

 James Eea, a Radnorshire farmer, was another one 



