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with wide top, first-class character, beautiful qual- 

 ity and style. At the Bath and West of England 

 meeting at Croydon a month before he had been 

 very much fancied. His owner not being there, Mr. 

 Thomas Duckham, the editor of the Hereford book, 

 said to an Australian who desired to buy the bull, 

 "I know Mr. Tudge very well, and I will telegraph 

 for his price." A Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Lewis Lloyd's 

 agent, overheard this and as he related afterward 

 he ran as fast as he could and wired: "How much 

 for Lord Wilton V 9 Mr. Tudge happened to be in 

 the house upon the receipt of the message, and at 

 once replied: "150 guineas. " As the boy went 

 back with this reply he met Mr. Duckham 's mes- 

 senger arriving with the same query as to price. 

 But he was too late, the bull was sold. While Mr. 

 Lloyd did not have the good fortune to reap his 

 due reward as a result of this purchase, as appears 

 further on, his representative is to be credited 

 with having saved this afterwards celebrated sire 

 to England and the United States. 



In Hereford cows Thomas Fenn won first, beating 

 the prize cow of the year before, Mr. Thomas' Rosa- 

 line. The winner, Lady Stanton, had scale, quality 

 and character a splendid Hereford cow well 

 brought out. In heifers under three years, Mr. 

 James, a south country Hereford breeder, won first 

 prize with Eosebud, a remarkably neat level heifer 

 nicely marked. A very pretty little heifer, she had 

 been second the year before at the Eoyal to Mr. 

 P. Turner's Verbena, but she now turned the tables 



