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hams; proving very conclusively that they are 

 the thriftiest and best cattle for Texas. What 

 Texas ranchmen want is a blooded bull that 

 will take his place by the side of the Texan 

 and wrestle throiigh the winter in good flesh, 

 and consequently be in good condition for ren- 

 dering valuable services early in the spring, 

 which want can be supplied by no other as 

 satisfactorily as by the Herefords. Parties 

 wishing to purchase fine males with a view of 

 improving their herds cannot do better than 

 to correspond or call on the proprietors of this 

 ranch. GEO. LEIGH. 



It is only necessary to add that starting in 

 with these excellent and representative stocks 

 of both breeds, the Herefords won the prefer- 

 ence of their owners and the Hereford sup- 

 planted the Shorthorn on the Reynolds ranches 

 and are still (1898) doing so. T. L. M. 



AN ENGLISHMAN'S TESTIMONY. 



We give below an extract from a letter of 

 George T. Turner, Knockhalt, England, to the 

 "National Live Stock Journal" : 



"The Carlisle meeting of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society was once again very unfortunate 

 on the score of weather, but the north country 

 people, who do not mind rain, because they are 

 used to it, came in goodly numbers and 'did' 

 the show as thoroughly as though the sun had 

 been shining all the time. They came on pur- 

 pose, and the mere rain and mud could not hin- 

 der them from seeing all there was to be seen. 

 In spite of good attendance, however, there was 

 a loss to the society of about 950 pounds ster- 

 ling. There is a grim sort of satisfaction to be 

 derived from the fact of fewer hundreds being 

 lost by the society this year than there were 

 thousands last year. The show was on rather 

 a smaller scale than usual, but it was very 

 select. Nearly all the stock was good, and the 

 Carlisle meeting does not rank second to any 

 former show held in connection with the society 

 in point of interest and general utility. 



"Herefords were a long way from home, and 

 were consequently small in numbers, but the 

 classes included some of the best cattle that the 

 county of Hereford can, at the present time, 

 produce. At the head of the list of bulls was 

 Mr. Aaron Rogers' Grateful, which is, without 

 doubt, the best showyard Hereford of the day, 

 now that Mrs. Sarah Edwards has lost the in- 

 comparable cow, Leonora. He wears well, too, 

 and is in good show form a couple of seasons af- 

 ter the famous Shorthorn show bull Sir Arthur 

 1 ngram has played himself out, both bulls being 

 of the same age. These two animals contested 



the open championship of the Oxford meeting 

 of the Bath and West in 1878, when the Here- 

 ford won easily, and at the same time and place 

 the Hereford cow Leonora won the open cham- 

 pionship prize for the best cow or heifer in the 

 yard quite as easily. These open championships 

 have not been since -offered, nor will they be, 

 so long as the Shorthorn men retain the influ- 

 ence they now command, in the councils of the 

 agricultural societies. Two of the Hereford fe- 

 males which took first prize in their respective 

 classes have, I understand, been purchased for 

 the United States, namely, Mr. T. Middleton's 

 cow, Nannette (ff 359) a winner of many 

 prizes and Mr. Thomas Fenn's heifer, Down- 

 ton Rose, also a very successful animal in the 

 show yard, and both of them Herefords of the 

 first water. They should prove of great value 

 to their new owners. Hereford cattle are now 

 being sent into the chief show yards of the 

 kingdom in first rate form, and the breed has 

 been brought to a very high state of excellence. 

 The different strains of blood have been fairly 

 intermingled, and families have not been bred 

 in-and-in, as the so-called fashionable Short- 

 horns have been, consequently they have not 

 lost constitution. I shall be deceived if they do 

 not work themselves into greater favor than the 

 Shorthorns in the great breeding districts of 

 the United States." 



MR. DUCKHAM COMMENDS OUR WORK. 



To the Editor of the "Hereford Times" : 

 Sir : It was with much surprise that I read in 



A MODEL SURFACE TANK IN A TEXAS PASTURE. 

 (Capital syndicate.) 



an article in the "Hereford Times" of the 7th 

 inst., under the heading "Hereford Cattle in 

 America," that "the numerous breeders of pure 

 Herefords may be congratulated on the new 

 market which has been opened to them by the 



