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neatest order, he would noi: aiiow inferior car- 

 casses of beef, mutton or veal to enter it. It 

 was a pattern to all such establishments in that 

 metropolis. There was not a breeder or farmer 

 of any note in England, when visiting the city, 

 but took a pleasant survey of it before they left. 

 I frequently talked to Mr. Giblett and his son 

 about the Herefords. They always spoke of 

 them in the highest terms, and as being the 

 most profitable beasts for the butcher. I in- 

 quired of several of the best butchers in sev- 

 eral of the market towns in the country; all 

 told me the same tale, but many of them said 

 that they bought more Scots and Welsh cattle 

 on account of the smallness of the joints, and 

 because they could buy them cheaper than they 

 could Herefords before they reached London. 



Go to Oxford and you find that all the first- 

 class butchers say that they buy none but first- 

 class Herefords to supply the colleges with beef, 

 and here much of it is consumed. Go and ex- 

 amine the extensive meadows rented by the 

 principal butchers in that city, containing some 

 of the best grazing land in the world; there 

 you will see none but the best Hereford steers 

 and oxen, all belonging to butchers, placed in 

 the different lots, as a supply when wanted. 



It IS highly gratifying to the lover of good 

 stock and well-fed beef to go and examine the 

 carcasses behind these white-faces, every 

 meadow containing from twenty to forty head. 

 1 remember Mr. A. B. Allen, when in England, 

 then editor of the "American Agriculturist," 

 being struck with this display of Herefords, 

 could not refrain from writing a paragraph of 

 high praise as he viewed them from the terrace 

 of Christ Church College. 



This was the principal market to which the 

 noted and most worthy supporter of Herefords, 

 Mr. Westcar of Creslow, Buckinghamshire, sent 

 his well-fed Herefords. Mr. Richard Rowland, 

 his successor, taking all things into considera- 

 tion, found this his best market ; he still holds 

 to the Herefords as most profitable. Having 

 become, like his uncle, thoroughly disgusted 

 with the way the shows were conducted, he de- 

 clined ever again showing an animal, notwith- 

 standing he feeds the very best. In a letter 

 to me, which I published in the Albany "Culti- 

 vator" of 1842, he said he never would allow 

 another animal of his under such treatment as 

 the Herefords had at their shows. 



TEXAS 2-YEAR-OLD STEERS IN AN OHIO PASTURE. 

 (Champions at Chicago Lire Stock Exposition, 1901. Property of D. W. Black, Lyndon, 0.) 



