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well. We quote from the report in the Eoyal Agri- 

 cultural Society's Journal: 



"Cows in milk or in calf; 15 entries. Mr. Rea's 

 Bella was the admiration of all who beheld her; 

 level as a Devon, yet of the size of a Shorthorn, as 

 was proved by her girth, one inch more than Mr. 

 Stratton's prize cow Matchless Fourth, Lord Ber- 

 wick's Beauty was deservedly second. She belongs 

 to a family frequently seen at these meetings, but 

 never before without gaining first honours. Here 

 she was fairly beaten by one of the best Hereford s 

 we have ever seen. 



"Heifers in milk or in calf; 10 entries. Mr. T. 

 Rea's Czarina was the type of a first-class animal. 

 Lord Berwick's Ada, like her sister Beauty, was 

 here again of necessity placed in a secondary posi- 

 tion." 



These reports show how highly the Monaughty 

 heifers were regarded, and made Hereford men 

 more anxious than ever to possess some of the Sir 

 Benjamin blood. 



At Canterbury in 1860 the Herefords were not 

 strongly represented. Mr. Edward's Leominster, 

 by Wellington, the bull calf winner at Chester and 

 third at Warwick, was now placed first. In the 

 two-year-old bulls a son of Noble Boy (1337) was 

 first, and Sir Richard (1734), a good-looking son 

 of Sir Benjamin, was second. In the cow class 

 there was but one representative, Taylor's Fancy 

 Leominster, a stylish-looking cow with nice Here- 

 ford character. 



Leeds, and the Battersea International. — At Leeds 

 the next year the Herefords were much bet- 



