464 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



brought out by Messrs. Earl & Stuart. Mr. Van- 

 Natta's instructions to them were to buy for his 

 account as good a bull as they could find, no limit 

 being placed on the price to be paid. Under this 

 commission Tredegar was delivered, but he was a 

 disappointment. Speaking of the incident Mr. Van- 

 Natta said : ' i When he arrived I did not care much 

 for him and turned him over to my son Frank to 

 breed grades from, whereupon I journeyed down 

 to Maine, where Messrs. Burleigh & Bodwell had 

 long maintained a good herd of home-bred and im- 

 ported cattle, and from them I bought the bull Tre- 

 grehan, afterwards so celebrated as a sire." 



Tregrehan, the real founder of this herd, was bred 

 in Cornwall, England. He was sired by Assurance, 

 a half-brother to old Anxiety, both being by Long- 

 horns, He was dropped in 1879 and was three years 

 old when he came to Fowler. Speaking of this pur- 

 chase Mr. VanNatta said: "We paid a pretty good 

 price, for that time, and when I told Mr. Fowler 

 what he had cost he remarked, 'You wanted him 

 pretty badly, did you not?' Two or three years 

 afterwards, when I priced him at $3,000, Mr. Fowler 

 said, 'I would not be willing to sell him for that 

 price, or any other price.' I then got back at him 

 by remarking, 'You want him pretty badly, do you 

 not?' " 



Tregrehan was not a big bull, probably not weigh- 

 ing much more than 2,100 pounds, but he was un- 

 usually low on the leg and carried his beef right 

 down to his hocks. He was a bull of extraordinary 



