120 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



wardine, and in 1865 females were bought from Mr. 

 Connop of Eardisland. Others were obtained from 

 Messrs. Middleton of Shobden and Eawlings of Ten- 

 bury. 



Among the earliest sires used at Stocktonbury 

 were Counsellor (1939) from Philip Turner; Heart 

 of Oak, from Eea of Monaughty; De Cote (2035), 

 from Edward of Wintercott; Sir Frank (2762), by 

 Sir Eichard, from Thomas Eea of Westonbury, and 

 Longhorns (4711) from Taylor of Showle Court. 



Anxiety (5188). The cow Eegina by Heart of 

 Oak, bred to De Cote, produced a bull Eodney (4907) 

 and a heifer Helena. The former was retained for 

 use in the herd. The sister not only developed into 

 a show cow but to the cover of Longhorns gave 

 birth to Anxiety, that was used some in the herd be- 

 fore his "sale for export to the United States, siring, 

 before his purchase by Mr. Culbertson, the bulls 

 Anxiety 3d (4466) and Anxiety 4th (9904), afterward 

 so celebrated respectively in the American herds of 

 Thomas Clark and Gudgell & Simpson. The far- 

 reaching and beneficial effect of the use of the 

 Anxiety bulls in the United States is possibly the 

 most striking phase of Hereford cattle breeding as 

 conducted in the middle west. They supplied the 

 showyard with champion cattle by the score, and 

 were a prime factor in the general refinement of the 

 breed type in America, and particularly in the im- 

 provement of the hindquarter worked out at a sub- 

 sequent period in the west. 



