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red was much the more common colour. An American authority, 

 Mr. A. B. Allen, has recorded that in 1841, when he happened to be over 

 in England, he saw at the Society's Show at Liverpool some grey 

 Herefords, and was much struck with their beauty and excellence. 

 The spotted or mottled face was represented by a remarkable bull, 

 'Maximus,' from the Royal herd at Windsor, first winner in his 

 class at the Battersea International Show, 1862." 



In the true-bred Hereford cattle there is no projecting bone in the 

 point of the shoulder, but it regularly tapers off. They have con- 

 siderable breadth before, and are equally weighty in their hind- 

 quarters. There is a great distance from the point of the rump to 

 the hip-bone ; the twist is full, broad, and soft ; the arm, as far as 

 the pastern joint, tapering and full, but thin and tapering below the 

 joint. The animals handle remarkably well, and are especially mellow on 



Fig. 3. Hereford Bull, "Pearl King." 



Champion at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 1907. 

 The property of Mr. A. E. Hughes, Wintercott, Leominster. 



the rump, ribs, and hip. There is little coarse flesh about them, the offal 

 and bone being small in proportion to their weight, while their disposi- 

 tion to fatten is equal, if not superior, to that of any other breed in the 

 island ; they are not, however, specially suited for the dairy. The 

 Hereford cattle arrive early at maturity, and are excellent at the 

 plough or in the team, though seldom worked in their native districts; 

 but it is as fattening stock that they excel. There is a more extraordi- 

 nary disproportion between the weight of the Herefordshire cows, and 

 that of the oxen bred from them, than is to be found in any other 

 breed. The former are comparatively small, extremely delicate and 

 light fleshed, but are not infrequently the mothers of oxen nearly 

 three times their own weight. 1 



In comparison with the Devon and Sussex, the Hereford breed were 







1 See the "Agricultural Survey of Herefordshire," p. 118, and' a Paper by T. A. 

 Knight, Esq., in " Communications to the Board of Agriculture," vol. ii. 



