312 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Dominion generally, it so happened that at the time 

 the middle western states first set out to establish 

 purebred white-faced herds the Frederick William 

 Stone collection was the largest and best of its 

 kind on the continent and was therefore freely 

 drawn upon by those who were seeking the blood 

 for use upon this side of the line. 



A Warwickshire Man. Mr. Stone was born at 

 Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire, England, in 

 1814, and came to Canada in 1831 at the age of six- 

 teen along with the Arkells. He took up 200 acres 

 on the Puslinch Plains, which he afterwards in- 

 creased to 248 acres. Some years later he returned 

 to England with the idea of going to Calcutta where 

 his brother had offered him a position as an East 

 Indian merchant. However, he changed his mind 

 and returned to Canada. and opened a store on the 

 Brock Eoad, still retaining his farm. His business 

 prospered and he acquired the estate of 583 acres, 

 550 of which he sold to the Ontario Government in 

 1873 for the agricultural college. The entrance to 

 the main building is the original entrance to the 

 house called by Mr. Stone Moreton Lodge, in honor 

 of his mother. After selling this farm to the gov- 

 ernment, Mr. Stone bought an adjoining place of 

 some 200 acres, which he farmed along with one of 

 248 acres at Arkell until the time of his death in 

 1895, at the age of eighty-one. 



In 1850 Mr. Stone purchased the Wingfield herd 

 of Shorthorns and in 1854 began to import purebred 

 stock direct. His first shipment of Shorthorns was 



