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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



To Rebecca Hunt for like service for twenty- 

 nine years. 



To Mary Batten for like service for twenty- 

 nine years. 



To Benjamin Reynolds as shepherd in one 

 family during sixty years. 



The exhibition and sale of cattle and sheep 

 was held on the next day. No awards were re- 

 ported. It is stated there was a respectable 

 show. It may be seen here that other societies 

 did not cultivate the cattle interest with Here- 

 fordshire intelligence. 



We have thought best, even at the risk of 

 being tiresome, to give and continue the details 

 of the organization and continuance of the 

 Smithfield Club, and the awards to the Here- 

 ford cattle up to the time that Youatt wrote the 

 history termed the History of British Cattle. 

 We have also given an account of the Duke of 

 Bedford's sheep shearing reports and the awards 



that he made and paid to those gatherings for 

 the improvement of agriculture and live stock 

 of the farmers of his county, thus showing his 

 interests in live stock improvement and prov- 

 ing that it was not for want of care or investi- 

 gation that the Duke accepted and adopted the 

 Hereford breed of cattle at Woburn as the most 

 valuable for farm purposes. We do this because 

 Mr. Youatt, while stating the fact that the 

 Herefords had been adopted by the Duke of 

 Bedford, failed, except in one instance, to show 

 any of the numerous experiments that he had 

 made, and these the American editors left out 

 entirely. 



From 1839 the breeders of Shorthorn cattle 

 in this country and in England quoted this pre- 

 tended history of Hereford cattle by Youatt 

 and abridged it to discredit the Hereford breed, 

 and advance the interest of the Shorthorn breed 

 of cattle. 



CHAMPION HEREFORD OX, SMITHFIELD, 1839. (Bred by R. Hill, Orlton; exhibited by the Earl of Warwick.) 



