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impure blood should be found in his well-reputed 

 pure herd. The man begged him to go and see it 

 before deciding, as it was the finest calf he had ever 

 seen. Mr. Tully, after seeing the animal, agreed 

 with his man, that it was a wonder, and out of 

 curiosity he would have it reared. This was done, 

 and he grew up to be a remarkably fine animal. 

 The bull was mated with his best cows, and the 

 progeny became celebrated for their white faces. 

 Many old chroniclers say that the county was dis- 

 tinguished for its breed of white cattle on the banks 

 of the Wye as far back as the tenth century, but the 

 cattle had red or roan ears ; and it is recorded that 

 Earl Scudamore, in or about the year 1660, had some 

 red cows with white faces from Flanders, and this 

 may be the reason why this noted 'Tully bull,' after 

 a lapse of more than a hundred years, cropped up 

 as a sport, from the deep red cattle of the country. 

 Sometimes the face is mottled with red, whilst many 

 of the best Hereford cattle I have grazed and 

 fatted have been of a light brindled colour, and I 

 have seen Herefords all pure white, but the latter 

 are extremely rare. There is no doubt in my 

 mind that the perpetuation of the white face is 

 through the influence of the white-faced bull, and 

 is a remarkable corroboration of my views ex- 

 pressed some years since in a paper I read at the 

 Central Farmers' Club on ' Breeding ; Facts and 

 Principles,' when I enounced the dictum ' that the 

 external characteristics are derived from the male 



