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of Canada, the former by imp. Sailor 12 and the 

 latter by Guelph 461. 



Mr. Aston sold out and returned to England to 

 live in 1870. By that time the Hereford had become 

 a familiar figure in the pastures and f eedlots of Lo- 

 rain and adjoining counties. The seed had fallen 

 upon fertile soil. Butchers reported that the "white 

 faces" killed well. Graziers agreed that they made 

 weight fast on grass and ripened rapidly when 

 placed in the feedlot. It was here that Thomas 

 Clark, another Englishman and then a young man 

 unknown to fame, first began farming in America 

 and acquired the blood that started him upon his 

 remarkable career as a breeder and exhibitor of 

 Heref ords. It was in this vicinity also that George 

 Morgan, another Englishman who was to become 

 a great factor in the American Hereford trade, 

 settled on first coming out from Herefordshire. 



Thomas Clark states that the Humphries- Aston 

 stock, while not so refined as we are now accustomed 

 to seeing in America, were good thick-fleshed cattle 

 possessing scale, substance, fine feeding quality and 

 in some cases the cows were excellent milkers. They 

 were more freely marked with white than modem 

 Herefords. Cattle descended from the Humphries- 

 Aston stock were often shown at the local and dis- 

 trict fairs in northern Ohio, and when the newer 

 west finally awakened to the value of the blood 

 Elyria suddenly found herself for the time being 

 the Hereford capital of the mid-west states — a dis- 

 tinction claimed shortly afterwards, however, by a 



