514 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



to John Price of Court House, Herefordshire. In 

 conjunction with his son "Ned" he engaged in the 

 breeding, importation and exhibition of Herefords 

 and in the early '80 's brought out from England 

 132 head of cattle in connection with the firm of 

 Finch, Lord & Nelson of Burlingame, Kans. Many 

 of these bulls were taken by Charles Goodnight to 

 the Texas Panhandle, where they were so success- 

 fully crossed upon the JA cows as to attract the im- 

 mediate attention of all the great range outfits in 

 that region. 



During the years 1884 and 1885 the Messrs. Price 

 won upwards of 100 prizes at leading cornbelt fairs 

 and fat stock shows. One of their best breeding 

 bulls was Eegulus 2d (6089), bred by John Price 

 and imported by Mr. Culbertson. He was sired by 

 Eegulus 3849, son of Sir Eoger by Sir Thomas. 

 This bull sired among other fine cattle the steer 

 Eegulus, champion of the Chicago Fat Stock Show 

 of 1885, fed and shown by Mr. VanNatta. Eegulus 

 2d was sold to Nathan Hussey for $1,500. Prob- 

 ably the most noted female of the Price herd was 

 Miss Frere, a daughter of Sir Bartle Frere, that 

 was bought at Carwardine's dispersion sale. 



The. Iowa Hereford Cattle Company. This 

 was an English exporting venture capitalized at 

 30,000. An Anglo-American enterprise of which 

 the late Henry E. Yeomans was manager at Indian- 

 ola, la., it represented an effort on the part of sev 

 eral Englishmen to engage in the direct shpiment 

 and sale of Herefordshire cattle to the western 



