434 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



challenged the Shorthorn breeders to a test of the 

 feeding qualities of the two breeds in several ways 

 and at different times. One bull was bought of J. 

 B. & G. H. Green of Marlow Lodge. This was 

 Dauphin 18th, a young bull of great scale. Six head 

 were purchased of Mr. J. H. Arkwright of Hampton 

 Court, the breeder of old Sir Richard 2d (4984). 

 Other purchases were made of Mr. Yeomans of 

 Stretton Court, near Hereford, Mr. Thomas Nott of 

 Buckton Park, Mr. Halloway of Letton, Mr. Thomas 

 Lewis of Woodhouse, near Pembridge, and others. 



Mr. Miller returned to the United States on July 

 1, 1880, and finding that there was no way to avoid 

 a quarantine of 90 days arranged for this on an 800- 

 acre farm on the Baltimore & Ohio E. E. near Balti- 

 more, Md., on which no cattle had been for ten 

 years. He then went back to England and shipped 

 the cattle from Bristol by the Great Western Steam- 

 ship Line, on the steamer Gallian, Capt. Moen, mas- 

 ter. They arrived safely, although they had to ride 

 out a severe equinoctial gale. The cattle after pass- 

 ing quarantine were loaded by Mr. Miller's son, T. 

 E. Miller, on Jan. 8, 1881, and ran through as a 

 " special' ' on passenger train time to Beecher, 111., 

 and unloaded there on the evening of Jan. 10, 1881, 

 every animal in perfect health.* 



*In March, 1885, Mr. Miller reported, by way of illustrating 

 the strong vitality of the Hereford cows, that in the fall of 1880 

 before the arrival of this large importation of Herefords he 

 offered the old cow Baroness 3d, then over 15 years old, for $250. 

 She was not sold. On April 6, 188,1, she dropped a heifer calf. 

 Baby 4029, on May 28, 1882, she dropped Blink Bonny 598,6, and 

 on June 5, 1883, she dropped Midget 6911. On Feb. 15, 1884, Baby 

 dropped Banquo by Success. On Oct. 18, 1884, Blink Bonny 

 dropped Bonny Boy by Success. In February, 1885, Baby had a 

 calf by Success. Thus the fifteen-year-old cow in little more 



