HISTORY OF HEEEFOED CATTLE 



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About this time his friend, Wm. H. Sotham, 

 bought several animals for export to Ainerica. 



"ily father had what he called his four favor- 

 ite strains — Countess, Lofty, Red Eose, and 

 Eann}', and those are the ones from which his 

 cattle are principally descended. Eed Rose 

 393 (Tl 35 A), by Chance (355) ^89, from Rose- 

 bud 388, was his favorite cow. He kept her 

 until she wasrtwenty-three years of age, and I 

 believe she bred him twenty calves. She had 

 twins when she 'was seventeen years old — a bull 

 and a heifer — by Governor (4G4) 8?. The bull 



VICTORY (33), BRED BY J. PRICE, CALVED 1839. 



Grateful (1260) 1599 was sold to the late Mr. 

 W. Stedman, Bedstone Hall. There were sev- 

 eral cases of longevity amongst his bulls, espe- 

 cially Berrington (435) 3363, who was a stock- 

 getter at twenty-one years old; Sovereign (404) 

 231, at fifteen years old, and a more recent case, 

 Above All (2910) 3137, which was only fed in 

 the winter of 1883 by Mr. Jones, Preston Boats, 

 Salop, at seventeen years old." 



It would be impossible to give here the 

 names of all the famous animals bred by Mr. 

 John Hewer during his career as a breeder, 

 which practically extended from about 1803 to 

 1873, a period 6i nearly seventy years. Mr. 

 Eyton mentions in Vol. 1 of the Herd Book 

 that he was informed by Mr. Hewer that Pretty 

 Maid, Primrose, Beauty, and Damsel, were the 

 four cows from which his herd was originally 

 descended. 



Most of the following bulls bred by J. Hewer 

 were extensively used in the county, and have 

 left their impress on the breed: Sovereign 

 (404) 331, Lottery (410) 185, Byron (440) 305, 

 Hope (411) 282, Chance (355) 289. Defiance 

 (416) 317, Prince Dangerouir (363) 146, Lot 

 (364) 846, Lotterv 2d (408) 1413, Young Fa- 

 vorite (413) 350, Wonder (420) 451, Fitzfavor- 

 ite (441) 366, Hamlet (512) 275, Original 1st 

 (455) 219, Young Waxy (451) 301, Purslow 



(446), and Conqueror (413) 262. But the list 

 could be largely extended, and the difficulty is 

 to find a single animal of note m the present 

 day that does not inherit Hewer blood. 



The sum received for the letting of Sovereign 

 (404) 321 was £640 18s ($3,305), for Lottery 

 (410) 185, £710 ($3,550), for Lottery 2d (408) 

 1413 £645 lis ($3,225), and for Defiance (416) 

 317 £525 ($2,625). The produce of Countess 

 the 2d 336, was valued at £455 14s ($3,380), 

 and the produce of the cow Lofty 147 made 

 £1,389 ($6,445). As illustrative of the weight 

 of some of Mr. Hewer's cattle, it may be noted 

 that the live weight of the cow Rosy 5469 was 

 one ton and one cwt. 3 qrs. or 3,436 lbs. 



Mr. Hewer gained the first prize at the E. A. 

 S. E. Show at b.xford in 1839 for the best heifer 

 (Lady Oxford 1414), and also the following 

 year, at Cambridge, with Duchess of Cam- 

 bridge. The widespread influence of the Hewer 

 blood on the breed arose very much from Mr. 

 Hewer's habit of letting out his bulls, as many 

 as fifty-five having been, as Mr. J. L. Hewer has 

 told us, let out at one time. In few herds was 

 the Hewer influence more potent than in those 

 of Mr. Thomas defines of The Grove (who used 

 Lottery, Sovereign and Byron), Mr. Yeomans 

 of Howton, Mr. Yeomans of Moreton, Mr. 

 Bowen of Crofton, Mr. Jones of Breinton; Mr. 

 Turner, Noke, and Sir Hungerford Hoskyns. 

 But in this respect again it is impracticable to 

 make a full list without giving the names of 

 nearly all the well-known breeders. 



In Mr. Jeffries' hands, however, it will be 

 shown, the Hewer blood was most successful. 

 The celebrated Cotmore (376) 150, calved m 

 1836, bred by Mr. Jeffries, and winner of the 

 first prize at the initial show of the Eoyal Agri- 

 cultural Society at Oxford in 1839, was got by 

 Mr. Hewer's Sovereign (404) 321, and hi"s dam 

 was by Lottery (410) 185. Then Chance (348) 

 119, the sire of the wonderful bull Sir David 

 (349) 68, was from Victoria 186 by Lottery 

 (410) 185, the grandam being- Countess 264, by 

 Old Sovereign (404) 221. Sir David's dam was 

 also by Chance (348) 119. Instead of going 

 into elaborate details now as to the influence of 

 the Hewer cattle, it will be more convenient 

 to allow the facts to come out when we refer 

 especially to the various herds. 



It has been somewhat positively stated that 

 the whole of Mr. John Hewer's cattle, as well 

 as those of his father's, were white-faced. On 

 this point Mr. John L. Hewer writes us: "Mv 

 grandfather's herd were not all pure white 

 faces. He had some ticked-faced ones; also, I 

 believe, a few a little mottled, and mv father 

 had one strain of the tick faces (^ 36) which he 



