272 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



been wintered on the coarsest fodder that the farm 

 afforded, was 2,000 pounds. ' ' 



It is not easy to understand this reference to "a 

 cross between the Hereford and Shorthorn with a 

 slight dash of the Bakewell," as related to a bull bred 

 in New England. By "a dash of Bakewell " pre- 

 sumably the Longhorn blood is meant. Such a cross 

 could, of course, have come from Kentucky, and 

 possibly the Longhorn blood may have existed some- 

 where in New England, but we have no record of its 

 importation there. 



It is reported that at the New York State Fair 

 of 1842, Mr. P. N. Eust exhibited a fat ox with 

 Hereford markings, eight years old and at a live 

 weight of what was claimed to be 4,200 pounds. It 

 is difficult at this date to determine just how much 

 credence should be placed upon an apparent exag- 

 geration. Mr. Howard, above quoted, however, 

 writing of this extraordinary bullock, said: 



"He is truly a most superb animal. He has both 

 the shape and color and the characteristics of a 

 Hereford. His shoulders are well set, his chine full, 

 back short, loin and hips very wide, rump long, legs 

 clean and sinewy, and he is considerably heavier 

 than any other animal I have ever seen of so little 

 bone and offal. At the time I saw him Mr. Eust 

 thought his weight would not be less than 3,700 

 pounds. I saw the man who said he raised this ox, 

 and both he and Mr. Eust agreed that his sire was 

 part Hereford. " 



So far as one may now surmise it may be pre- 

 sumed that this bullock was related in some way to 

 the Massachusetts stock derived from old Sir Isaac. 



