136 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



by Mr. Housman, and an account of The Leen sale 

 written by John Hill: 



"The Grove 3d was calved Nov. 5, 1874. He 

 was described by Mr. Housman as being * neither a 

 mean-looking bull, nor a bull of remarkably noble 

 appearance, .... but he has a well-propor- 

 tioned frame. The bull is a true male. The rise of 

 the chine-line over the shoulder top into the crest of 

 the neck is particularly masculine, and the head, 

 not coarse nor heavy, is still a bull's head. In his 

 hind-quarters he has inherited from Sir Thomas the 

 width immediately behind the hips and to mid-quar- 

 ter, but does not end off quite so squarely as Sir 

 Thomas did. Few bulls do. This is generally a 

 heifer's rather than a bull's characteristic, yet Sir 

 Thomas, who certainly could not be charged with 

 want of masculine character, was as an old bull 

 proportionately as wide and full and square and 

 level as a model fat heifer.' The Grove 3d had 'ex- 

 traordinary mellowness of skin and flesh of the best 

 kind and quality for a stock sire; the kind that in- 

 creases fast ; his very touch tells that under moder- 

 ate pressure of keep he would soon be thick- fat/ 

 This is from the pen of one of the finest judges and 

 writers on this subject and no words of mine need 

 be added to such a splendid description of this fa- 

 mous animal, except to say how thoroughly true to 

 life the picture has been drawn. 



"I will now give a short account of The Leen sale 

 at which the famous bull was sold on the dispersion 

 of Philip Turner's herd. Shortly before this sale 

 the reputation of The Grove 3d had been increased 

 by the important sale of one of his sons, Rudolph, 

 which George Morgan, the well known leviathan ex- 

 porter of the day, bought for the then large sum of 



