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run in Queensland, against 10 per cent of the 

 Shorthorn herd and 20 per cent of the stud 

 Shorthorn. In one large paddock there were 

 70 Shorthorn and 70 Hereford bulls, one and 

 two years old. The Shorthorns got so poor 

 that they had to be turned out on the run, the 

 paddocks being bare of grass, but the Herefords 

 kept in good, strong condition. 



"When Captain Cook first visited New Zea- 

 land there were no cattle in the country, but 

 at a subsequent period some were introduced 

 from Australia. In the early settlement of the 

 colony the length of the time occupied in a voy- 

 age from England and the many difficulties 

 which had to be overcome by the pioneers pre- 

 vented any special attention being given to the 

 improvement of the breed of cattle by importa- 

 tion, as that necessarily involved a heavy ex- 

 penditure of money, not to say anything of 

 the time and patience required to introduce 

 them ; but at last the colonists began to im- 

 prove their herds by the introduction of thor- 

 oughbreds from Europe, and I have not the 

 slightest hesitation in saying that nearly all the 

 imported cattle thrive better in New Zealand 

 than in their native homes, and that this supe- 

 riority is developed to a still higher degree in 

 their offspring." 



HEREFORDS FOR THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA. 



Hereford cattle have done remarkably well 

 on this island, and purchases of thoroughbreds 



are still continuing in England for exportation 

 to that island. 



On the 10th of November, 1885, a little knot 

 of Hereford breeders gathered at the Southwest 

 India docks to see the shipment, by the ship 

 Catib, of six thoroughbred Herefords to that 

 distant island. Mr. John Malcolm, of Paltal- 

 loch at Knockalba, and Eetrieve, Penn., in 

 America, was the purchaser. Mr. Malcolm 

 personally superintended the loading, and he, 

 in company with other friends who had come up 

 from Hereford to see them off, were entertained 

 at luncheon by the captain, Mr. A'icary. The 

 lot of Herefords comprised two bulls and four 

 heifers. The bulls were Lemon Boy 2d, bred 

 by Mr. P. J. Hughes, and Benjamin 17th, bred 

 by Messrs. J. B. & G. H. Green, of Marlow, 

 Leintwardine. This bull was a year and a half 

 old, and said to be a good one. The four heifers 

 were all yearlings past, and named, respectively. 

 Miss Hamar 2d, Countess 10th, Miss Silver 

 7th, Miss Nobleman 8th. Thev were all bred 

 by Mr. Thomas Myddleton, of Beekjay, Aston- 

 on-Clum, and were an extraordinary good lot. 

 These four heifers were picked out of ten 

 heifers shown by Mr. Myddleton at the Glouces- 

 tershire show, they going to the show off the 

 grass and beating a like number shown by 

 John Price and others. These cattle are going 

 to join a large and valuable herd of Herefords 

 that have been bred in Jamaica since 1835. 



REPRESENTATIVE DEVON COW. 



