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"a perfect model of what a show animal ought to 

 be." She had plenty of scale, and in type, char- 

 acter and form was called faultless. A daughter 

 of the first prize aged bull Stanway, she very much 

 resembled her sire and in her case, as it was in his, 

 she was universally considered and allowed to be 

 the best of her sex in the showyard, of any breed. 

 Mr. Philip Turner's good-looking Silvia was second 

 to her as before. Silver Star, like most of the win- 

 ners and best Herefords at this Oxford show, was 

 sold to Messrs. Barnes and Smith of Dyrabba, New 

 South Wales, to go to Australia with her companion 

 Lady Brandon, the winner of the second prize in the 

 next class. Eight royally did Silver Star repay 

 her buyer ; Mr. Smith on a visit to England in 1900, 

 just thirty years afterwards, said that he had now 

 "300 Silver Stars, all descended from that one 

 heifer and all marked exactly as she was, of the 

 true Hereford color." On his return he sent back 

 to England a photo of 150 of these all facing the 

 camera, and a bonny sight they must have been. 



The Hereford display at the Oxford meeting was 

 one of the best ever seen at a Eoyal show, and the 

 most satisfactory for the exhibitors the Australian 

 buyers purchasing so many and at such good prices. 

 With them, as with the Herefordshire breeders now, 

 quality was the first consideration. That this was 

 truly the watchword of the hour was thoroughly ex- 

 emplified by the Oxford awards. They were made 

 by Mr. S. W. Urwick and by Mr. Yeomans of Brecon- 

 shire, an uncle of Mr. J. H. Yeomans, now of Wit- 



