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HISTOEY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Tlie Herefords were shown liv Mr. Frank 

 Reynolds, of Tocal. Pie is the leading breeder 

 of Herefords and Devons in New South Wales. 

 He will be able to give you every item of in- 

 formation about them, as I could not. I sold 

 a bull and three heifers to go to West Aus- 

 tralia ; the same person had one bull from me 

 two years since ; he turned out so well that he 

 came all the way — 1,500 miles by sea — for 

 more. They are the first Herefords sent to 

 \Vest Australia ; they all arrived safe, and are 

 in capital hands; they will be well done by. I 



ARCHIBALD (62S0) 11129. 



Bred by A. Rogers, Herefordshire. Weight 3,000 lbs. (Prom 



a painting.) 



allowed him to take some of the best I had, so 

 that they should have every chance to make a 

 good start. 



"I must now teli you how my little herd is 

 getting on. I have the vanity to think that 1 

 have as nice a herd as I ever saw on one farm. 

 It consists of about 200 head, all so near alike 

 that it is difficult to know one from the other. 

 I can and do make double off my beef to what 

 any breeder in the colony does, as I make as 

 much off my two-yea r-and-a-half old steers as 

 any of them make off their five and six-year 

 olds. G. Price"." 



We find the following in the "Queenslander," 

 Australia. It will be seen that Australia has 

 good Herefords, but the feature of greatest in- 

 terest is that Lady Claire 411G, the dam of 

 Lord Wilton, at 16 years of age, should make 

 a trip from New Zealand to Queensland. There 

 is no doubt but what some of the best of the 

 Hereford breed of cattle have gone from Eng- 

 land to Australia, and there is no doubt but 

 that they will take an active part in the pres- 

 ent effort to improve cattle in that country. 



"Messrs. McConnel & Wood's recently im- 

 ported Herefords from New Zealand deserve 



more than a passing notice, inasmuch as they 

 include some of the highest class of Herefords 

 ever landed on these shores. The draft con- 

 tains a cow now become celebrated throughout 

 all parts of the civilized world where the Here- 

 ford breed is known. This cow is Lady Claire 

 (Vol.' 9, p. 336), the mother of the celebrated 

 Lord Wilton (4740) 4057. (Tj 257) This bull 

 is recognized throughout England and Amer- 

 ica as the best living representative of the Here- 

 ford breed of cattle, being alike unapproach- 

 able as a show animal and as a stock-getter, 

 no hull of any breed having begotten so many 

 prize-takers. Lady Claire was purchased by 

 Mr. Stuckey, of New Zealand, before the im- 

 mense value of Lord Wilton as a sire had been 

 fully appreciated. Otherwise she never would 

 have been allowed to leave England. She is 

 by Marmion, bred by Mr. Tudge, her dam be- 

 ing Lady Adforton, by Pilot, by The Grove. 

 She is in calf to Chipfiendale (6865), a bull 

 of equally valuable strains. Chippendale — now 

 in New Zealand — is by Lord Wilton, dam Judv 

 (Vol. 11, p. 157) 14419. He also was a most 

 successful show-yard bull, and his value as 

 sire is known by the fact that after Mr. Stuckey 

 had purchased him he was offered £500 

 ($2,500) on his bargain by an American buy<er. 

 His stock have realized long prices in P]ngland. 

 Chippendale is the first of Lord Wilton's stock 

 that have come to the southern hemisphere. 



''Another of the importations is Duke of 

 C^hippendale, a 17-months-old son of Chippen- 

 dale, from Amethyst (Vol. 9, p. 216), a cele- 

 brated cow of P. Turner, The Leen. This bull 

 contains eight strains of the celebrated Sir Ben- 

 jamin. Mr. Stout, another young bull selected 

 by Mr. Wood in New Zealand, is also by Chip- 

 pendale, and of the Amethyst tribe. The twins 

 Castor and Pollux, nine months old, are by 

 George 4th, by Coomassie, their dam Charitv 

 2d, being by Horace 3d (5386), bv the cele- 

 brated Horace (3877) 2492. We 'learn that 

 Mr. Wood purchased four more Chip]iendale 

 calves not yet old enough to wean. This addi- 

 tion to the Durundur herd is a most wonderful 

 one, and had our ports been open for the im- 

 portation of p]nglish stock the enterprising 

 owners could not have selected in England an 

 equal number possessing more valuable or more 

 fashionable strains of blood." 



HEREFORDS THE BEST CATTLE. 



A correspondent of the "Queenslander," Mr. 

 Reginald Wyntham, writing from Leeksfiehl, 

 says : 



"I have sold scores of Hereford bulls myself 

 for use in Shorthorn herds, and hope to sell 



