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f erred to as "imported" Lord Wilton 5739, which 

 was used successfully upon the Culbertson cows. 

 Another son, Autocrat 10927, sired the beautiful 

 show cow Lily, at one time in the hands of Mr, 

 Elmendorf of Nebraska, probably the best Hereford 

 cow of her day in the west. 



Blood Concentration. — ^It is interesting to specu- 

 late as to what Anxiety would have been worth to 

 Mr. Carwardine had he been retained — doubtless 

 cheap at 2,000 guineas, instead of the 200 paid on 

 Mr. Culbertson 's account. It will be borne in mind 

 that he was got by Longhoms and that his two 

 greatest sons and his great daughter Prettyface 

 were all out of cows by the same sire, so that a most 

 interesting example of inbreeding is presented. 

 This is heightened by the results achieved in Amer- 

 ica by Gudgell & Simpson from their remarkable 

 course of close Anxiety breeding presently to be 

 noted. If the animals above mentioned afford any 

 fair basis for prophecy, it would seem as if a con- 

 tinued doubling of the Longhoms blood at Stock- 

 tonbury through Anxiety would have been price- 

 less, not only to England but to America as well. 

 As luck would have it, however, the bull was 

 doomed to cross the Atlantic, to leave but one small 

 crop of remarkable calves, and to run a brief but 

 meteoric career at the leading American shows — a 

 martyr to the cause of advertising the breed at pub- 

 lic exhibitions. 



Anxiety's Untimely Death.— Mr. Culbertson had 

 in James Powell a rare good herdsman in whose 



