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on to several of his farms, and bred many excellent grade Herefords from 

 the common cows. His bullocks have, in past years, been highly 

 approved in the New York cattle markets. 



VHI. The Ohio Importation. 



" About the year 1852-3, Messrs. Thomas Aston, and John Humphries, 

 two English farmers in Elyria, Ohio, near Lake Erie, imi)ortcd several 

 tine Herefords. They bred them well and successfully, as seen in the 

 specimens we have several times met, but with what success in their sales 

 we have no intimate knowledge. 



IX. Herefords in Canada. 



"In the years 1860 and '61, Mr. Frederick Wm. Stone, of Guelph, 

 Canada West, made two importations of superior Herefords from the 

 herds of Lord Batenian, in Herefordshire, and the late Lord Berwick, in 

 the adjoining county of Shropshire, England, numl)ering, together, two 

 bulls and eleven cows and heifers. These were remarkable for their 

 high breeding, and generally good points. From them down to January, 

 1867, there were bred about sixty, and about half the number have been 

 sold at satisfactory prices, and distributed, mostly into the United States. 

 Some of the cows have proved excellent milkers, and all, together with 

 the crosses of the bulls with common cows, have proved profitable graz- 

 ing animals. 



X. Early Imported Herefords Not Fairly Tried. 



" On the whole, the Herefords have not had a fair trial in the United 

 States, in the hands of veteran cattle breeders who had the means and 

 opportunity to properly test them by a thorough and persistent course of 

 breeding. Had the fine herd which was for several years on Mr. Com- 

 ing's farm, been taken to good grazing lands in New York, or some of 

 the Western States, and properly cared for, their history, we fancy, 

 would have been far different from that which is here recorded." 



XI. The Herefords West. 



Since Mr. Allen wrote, the Hereford.s have been tried in many West- 

 ern States, and in no respect either in kindly fattening, early maturity or 

 heavy weights have they failed fairly to comjDete with the best Short- 

 Horns in the principal prize fairs of the West, often carrying off the 

 highest honors. Besides the breeders already mentioned, none have done 

 more for the Herefords in the United States than Mr. Miller and Mr. 

 Culbertson, of Illinois, each of whose large herds is composed of the 

 very highest-caste animals to be found anywhere. 



