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Fifty Years of Progress. We have now noted 

 the results of half -a-century 's competition for 

 honors at England's national show. From this it 

 is apparent that in the earlier part of that period 

 scale was the leading feature, some enormous 

 weights being recorded. Cotmore, winner at the first 

 Royal show in 1839, weighed 3,500 pounds. At the 

 end of this fifty-year period in 1889, although Maid- 

 stone, Good Boy and Fisherman were considered big 

 bulls, the heaviest of them weighed but a trifle over 

 2,600 pounds. The decisions at the Worcester show 

 of 1863 and the character of the Sir Thomas stock 

 thereafter shown, first drew attention to the fact 

 that quality was to take the place of mere bulk. 

 Eighteen years later came the Lord Wiltons to the 

 Derby Eoyal of 1881, where both males and females 

 of that blood were generally acknowledged to rep- 

 resent the acme of Herefordshire breeding at that 

 date. The subsequent use of The Grove 3d bulls 

 upon the Wilton females brought the union of 

 quality and flesh that distinguished so many model 

 Herefords in succeeding years. 



We shall now be able to pursue the history of the 

 breed on our own side of the water with a good un- 

 derstanding of the material with which we have to 

 deal. 



