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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



final sale took place at Poole House on Octo- 

 ber 15tli, 1841. Here the cow Toby Pigeon 

 was sold m her 32d year to Sir F. Lawley for 

 £14 ($70). The highest price was £166 ($830) 

 for the bull Washington, Lord Talbot being 

 the purchaser. Among the cows. Wood Pigeon 

 made 150 guineas ($750), going to Mr. B}Td, 

 Hampton Court, Hereford. The heifer Tube- 

 rose was taken bv Lord Talbot at 100 guineas 

 ($500) and Ceres at £115 ($575), by Sir F. 

 G-oodricke; Mr. Smith, Martly, gave £100 

 ($500) for the bull Tramp; Sir F. Lawley £140 



WILLIAM GALLIERS, WaGMORE GRANGE. 



($700) for Young Trueboy, and £100 ($500) for 

 Victory; Mr. Samuel Peploe bought the bull 

 Murphy DeLaney for 110 guineas ($550). The 

 largest purchasers were Lord Talbot, Sir F. 

 Lawley, Sir F. Goodricke. Captain Walters, Mr. 

 S. Peploe, Garnestone, and Rev. J. R. Smythies, 

 Lynch Court. Mr. Evans, Pendeford Hall, 

 Stafford, took The Rejected for 110 guineas 

 ($550). An average for 99 animals was £53 

 16s 4d ($270), and the total £5,328 ($26,640). 

 Commenting on the results of the sale, Mr. 

 Price said: "Although the average of my sale 

 in 1816 is a little above the average price of 

 my last sale in 1841, it will, I think, appear 

 evident on taking into account the length of 

 time (25 years) that has elapsed between the 



two sales, the great reduction which has taken 

 place during that time (and since the .sales of 

 Messrs. CoUmg's Shorthorns) m the price of 

 first-rate herds of cattle, and also of other herds 

 of cattle, together with circumstances too well 

 known to both landlords and tenants to need 

 any comment from me, that the average of my 

 last sale was much the best; thereby placing 

 the herd on much higher ground compared 

 with all others than they heretofore occupied, 

 and I do sincerely hope that the hands these 

 animals have fallen into, will take care that 

 they keep their present high position. Should 

 they not continue to do so, and lose caste^ the 

 fault will not be in the cattle." 



At the Poole House sale it was resolved to 

 present Mr. Price with his portrait, and a good 

 picture was painted by Mr. Frederick Tatham. 

 Mr. Price survived this sale only two years. 



At his three sales of cattle, in 1813, 1816, 

 and 1841, the proceeds amounted to no less 

 than £16,690 ($83,450). A complete record of 

 the sale in 1820 does not exist, but we should 

 imagine that if the amount obtained at it could 

 be added it would swell the total to £20.000 

 ($100,000). 



In the article on Hereford cattle contributed 

 to Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Mr. 

 Welles has a few remarks on the character of 

 i\Ir. Price's stock. He said he thought it must 

 be generally admitted that unusual exertions 

 had been made through great difficulties by an 

 individual of an adjoining county, who had 

 been the most zealous and (if high prices were 

 the test) the most successful breeder of Here- 

 fords of that day (about 1S30-40). And little 

 as his opinions seemed to be in conformity 

 with those of a large portion of the breeders of 

 the county of Hereford, and though his great 

 efforts to raise the character of the breed had 

 been so little understood and appreciated on its 

 native soil, he thought those who calmlv and 

 dispassionately examined the principles which 

 guided him in the pursuit, must be convinced 

 that there were many points on which he in- 

 sisted as indispensable in the formation of a 

 superior animal that could not safely he dis- 

 regarded. Instances of failure might be ad- 

 duced against him in some of his practice, but 

 these often resulted with the most sagacious 

 from the trial of new combinations; and Mr. 

 Welles thought it very probable that the rising 

 generation of breeders would find that a supe'^ 

 nor intellect brought to bear so exclusively on 

 one subject had not been exercised in vain,' and 

 that time would dispel manv of the prejudices 

 existing in certain places against Mr. Price's 

 breed. 



