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feeding, early-maturing quality so essential in meet- 

 ing the demands of our latter-day beef-makers. His 

 get were noted for the rapidity with which they 

 ripened in response to liberal treatment. Unfor- 

 tunately he did not leave a numerous progeny in 

 America. 



The Grove 3d was used by Mr. Culbertson for a 

 time and then was sold to Earl & Stuart. Apparent- 

 ly the service in these two herds did not meet with 

 that extraordinary degree of success which attended 

 it in the hands of Philip Turner. Possibly this is 

 partially accounted for by the fact that unlike the 

 conditions attending his use in Herefordshire the 

 cows with which he was mated in the west repre- 

 sented many and various blood combinations. 



Advantages in Old-Established Herds. It has 

 already been noted that the Stocktonbury herd up- 

 on which Lord Wilton (and Anxiety, with a much 

 more restricted opportunity) was crossed with such 

 phenomenal results was quite homogeneous in point 

 of constituent blood elements. There were Longhorns 

 or Rodney, DeCote, and Heart of Oak for the top 

 crosses in nearly every dam of a great son or daugh- 

 ter of Lord Wilton. At The Leen there were the 

 numerous Spartan dams that seemed to respond al- 

 most infallibly to the blood of The Grove 3d, and in 

 their back-breeding the Turner cows had much in 

 common. The more modern instance of the Gudgell 

 & Simpson cattle in America affords further cor- 

 roboration of the idea that most of the great suc- 

 cesses in beef cattle breeding have been attained af- 



