110 A HISTORY OP HKREPORD CATTLE 



work of Mr. Monkhouse, the auctioneers in announc- 

 ing the dispersion sale paid him this tribute : 



"His fame was not local, but national, finding its 

 way into every corner of the British Isles, where 

 intellect and knowledge have been directed to the 

 great interest of agriculture, and recording itself 

 by numerous brilliant successes on the pages of the 

 proceedings of the Royal Agricultural Society, as 

 well as those of the chief provincial cattle shows in 

 Herefordshire and adjoining counties." 



Lord Berwick. — The Cronkhill cattle have numer- 

 ous descendants in the American Herd Book. His 

 Lordship first took up breeding in 1844 with Knight 

 greys procured from Salwey, but the trend towards 

 the white face was setting in so heavily that he 

 turned to Jeffries and Hewer blood. He had from 

 John Hewer the bull Wonder (420), that sired one 

 of the showyard cracks of his day, Albert Edward 

 (859). A little later he secured the famous Wal- 

 ford (871), that became the gold medal bull of the 

 Paris International Show of 1855 over all breeds, 

 beside being a great winner in Great Britain and- 

 celebrated widely as a sire of prize-winners. 



The Herefords were fortunate then as now in the 

 liberty allowed their breeders in the selection of 

 sires. Merit was first and pedigree secondary. The 

 great Walford was succeeded at Cronkhill by the 

 even more renowned Sir David (349), as already 

 noted. 



The Cronkhill herd was dispersed in 1861. Its 

 value to the breed is everywhere conceded, and its 



