310 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



town in northern Illinois to be mentioned frequently 

 as our story progresses. 



Frederick William Stone. The farm of the On- 

 tario Agricultural College and Experiment Station 

 possesses an historic interest to the lovers of im- 

 proved domestic animals, aside from the credit at- 

 taching to the great work there performed in recent 

 years by a devoted body of men seeking the ad- 

 vancement of Dominion agriculture through the ap- 

 plication of scientific practices. It was in those fer- 

 tile fields that Frederick William Stone once main- 

 tained the largest herd of Hereford cattle of its 

 time in North America. Shorthorns of pure descent 

 and Cotswold sheep of the best British breeding 

 likewise trod the soil of what was then the Moreton 

 Lodge estate. The walls of the old house are now 

 incorporated, in part at least, in one of the college 

 buildings. 



From this famous old-time importing and breed- 

 ing establishment many valuable cattle and sheep 

 went out to enrich the farming, not only of Ontario, 

 but of the border states of the Union. Indeed, so 

 marked was the influence of the Moreton Lodge 

 Herefords upon the foundation herds of New Eng- 

 land, New York, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, 

 Illinois, Iowa and Missouri that no account of the 

 upbuilding of the breed in the States can fail to 

 accord the highest recognition to the enterprise and 

 public spirit of this real benefactor of the two great 

 neighboring Anglo-Saxon nations. While the Here- 

 fords never really obtained strong footing in the 



