122 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



This influence of Anxiety (5188) upon the breed 

 in the New World renders the following statement 

 as to the bull's ancestry and individual character- 

 istics (in his earlier years), supplied at the author's 

 request by the veteran English breeder, Mr. John 

 Hill, formerly of Felhampton Court, of interest: 



"Anxiety was well named the owner of his cele- 

 brated dam, Helena, the late Mr. Carwardine, of 

 Stocktonbury, had every reason to be full of anxiety 

 before the birth of the calf which was to make his- 

 tory. Helena was a grand show heifer herself, and 

 from what I can remember of her, excessively fat. 

 Being in this unfavorable state for breeding it was 

 very naturally an anxious time for Mr. Carwardine 

 that all should go well with so valuable an animal. 

 Herefords, I believe, will breed and produce their 

 calves safely better than the generality of other 

 breeds of cattle, and this was no exception to the 

 rule. 



* ' Helena calved all right, and the bull calf she pro- 

 duced was named Anxiety. She had a successful 

 showyard career, and Anxiety as a calf at foot went 

 the round of the shows with his dam. There is a 

 portrait of Helena in Vol. 10 of the English Herd 

 Book, and also of Anxiety as a yearling, which gives 

 a very fair idea of their appearance at that time. 

 Anxiety was to the best of my recollection a par- 

 ticularly level, good-fleshed, compact bull, with won- 

 derful hindquarters, but somewhat weak in his neck 

 and effeminate in his head and horns. His eye was 

 bold and prominent. It did not strike me at the time 

 that he was at all likely to be an impressive sire, 

 and he was not the type of bull which we liked in 

 England, because of his rather effeminate appear- 

 ance, but he is just the sort of animal which finds fa- 



