184 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Several of those had not been popular with the prin- 

 cipal Hereford breeders, for in the case of the 

 champion cow and the aged bull the honors were 

 not given in accordance with the quality in the one, 

 nor the recognized Hereford character in the other. 

 The Worcester show and the Sir Thomas sale fairly 

 ushered in a different era in this middle period of 

 the English pedigree Hereford, and each subse- 

 quent Eoyal and Bath and West of England show 

 confirmed this fact. It was at those shows, and 

 through the criticism there passed on the judging, 

 that public opinion among the breeders and ad- 

 mirers of the Herefords found full expression. 



Leicester a Turning Point a,s to Scale. — The 

 Leicester Royal show of 1868 well demonstrated 

 the tendency just alluded to, in fact, confirmed it. 

 In the aged bull class Battenhall, the Worcester 

 winner as a bull calf, was the winner again. He was 

 well furnished in all his points, showing excellent 

 quality and good breeding. He had not so much 

 scale as the second and third prize bulls, but his 

 good points were his by rightful inheritance, as he 

 was a son of Sir Thomas and out of Duchess by 

 King James, son of Walford. If he had not the 

 scale of either of his two grandfathers he had 

 grown into a deep thick wide bull that well met the 

 demands of progress. 



In the three-year-bull class it was entirely quality 

 that gained the day in behalf of character and sym- 

 metry, as the winner. Sir Hungerford, bred and 

 shown by Mr. John Hungerford Arkwright of 



