244 A HISTORY OF HEBEFOED CATTtiE 



by The Grove 3d, and Taylor's Vanity 7th, by Frank- 

 liji. At Preston Vanity had first. Now it was Kath- 

 leen 's win. Seldom are two such good heifers seen 

 in showyard competition. In two-year-olds H. W 

 Taylor with another daughter of Franklin, Auri- 

 cula, carried off first prize with a very smart stylish 

 heifer, Mr. Hill of Orleton coming second with Lor- 

 raine, by Viscount (8140). 



The Hereford Herd Book prize that had been 

 given for several years for cow and two offspring 

 was this year changed to yearlings, one bull and two 

 heifers, when singularly enough the Leinthall win- 

 ner of first and second the previous year won it 

 again under the new regulation, the award going to 

 the remarkably good young bull Eegent (9121), a 

 son of Regal, dam Rhea, by Romulus, all of the old 

 Adforton breeding. The two heifers were New 

 Year's Gift and Apple Blossom, by Auctioneer. The 

 second prize went to John Price for Goldfinder and 

 two nice heifers, May Queen and Ethel, all by 

 Monarch. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. — North Countrymen next had 

 another opportunity of seeing the Herefords in 

 1887, and the breed was fairly well represented by 

 sixty-six entries, including many fine animals. 



Maidstone again was first among aged bulls, look- 

 ing remarkably well and having a very easy win. 

 Good Boy was not there, so there was nothing 

 to make the running. The third bull at Norwich, 

 Mrs. Edwards' Magnet, was now second; the three- 

 year-olds being merged here into the "all aged," he 



