MIDDLE-HORNED CATTLE THE HEREFORDS. 707 



and has since taken firsts at Birmingham, Liverpool and Bath, has now 

 been put second to him ; and that not only was he selected by the judges as 

 the best Hereford bull on the ground, but in the contest for the cham- 

 pionship succeeded in caiTyingit off against such a Short-Horn competitor 

 as Sir Arthur Ingram. Grateful, at four years old, has capital loins and 

 chines, with great thickness and depth of frame, and is very level all over ; 

 but his grand feature is the astounding mass of flosh Avith which his frame 

 is covered. His girth is eight feet ten and one-half inches. 



"In the cow class, Lady Blanche, which took second prize at Bath, now 

 came to the front position. She is marvelous at her fore flank, and dis- 

 plays a great mass of flesh on a well-shaped, grand frame, which, however, 

 fell off slightly at the rump. The second prize cow, Little Beauty, was 

 highly commendedat Bath, and wonderfully retains her show-yard merit at 

 eleven years old. The two-year old heifers, Leonora and Beatrice, were, 

 of course, sure to win. Beatrice has recently reared a calf, which is 

 slightly against her for showing; but Leonora is in full bloom with her 

 beautiful head, symmetrical form, and all that loveliness which is so tak- 

 ing to the eye. After being selected as the best Hereford female on the 

 ground, she carried off the champion prize against a remarkably shapely 

 Short-Horn heifer, and one of the bestDevons that has appeared for years, 

 so that both cups were awarded to Herefords." 





JERSEY BULL PEDRO'S PRETTY POGIS. 

 XVII. Distribution in the South-west and Far West. 



Since neither pains nor money has been spared in bringing the best 

 English animals to this countr}^ there is no doubt but that the West to- 

 day possesses Herefords, both bulls and cows, as good as there are in the 

 world. Hereford bulls are being sent off and distributed in the far West, 

 and South-west, where they arc regarded with fully as much favor as the 

 Short-Horns. Why should they not? There is plenty of territory left 



