220 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



Planks had to be laid in all directions. From 200 

 to 500 men and 240 horses were employed for days, 

 starting in relays from 2 a. m. to 9 p. m. to keep 

 the yard passable, the cost in all, labor and material, 

 being £3,329 extra outlay. So Kilbum was not a 

 finandal success owing to the almost incessant rain. 

 The only fine weather was a part of the day when 

 Queen Victoria paid her visit. Then there was a 

 little "Eoyal weather." 



In the aged bull class Aaron Rogers' Grateful 

 was awarded first prize, and later was made cham- 

 pion bull over all. He was a magnificent animal, 

 wonderfully deep and good in front and over his 

 top. His old opponent. Thoughtful, had improved 

 very much with the extra year's age and ran him 

 rather close, being very long and level and, if any- 

 thing, a little squarer and better around the tail and 

 hindquarters. Grateful, like Thoughtful, had the 

 blood of both the great bulls and much nearer, for 

 his sire. Sir Thomas, was the grandson of Sir David, 

 and his dam. Lady Lizzie, was a daughter of Jupi- 

 ter (3191), grandson of Walford. They were a pair 

 of grand bulls. 



Lord Wilton and a Blundering Bailiff. — ^In this 

 class there was another bull shown in store condi- 

 tion and with a big "gathered" knee. Mr. Lewis 

 Lloyd's blundering bailiff had sent him there in 

 condition quite unfit, apparently expecting to get 

 a prize merely because the bull had won before, and 

 because his predecessor in the bailiff's office, who 

 had died rather suddenly the year before, had 



