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fleshed, deep-bodied bull, with a wonderful width 

 of front, and proved to be a very impressive sire. 

 I might state here how Mr. VanNatta came to buy 

 Tregrehan. He was on a visit to the late H. C. 

 Burleigh in Maine (the importer) and at once on 

 seeing the bull determined to buy him, but could 

 not get a price on him until he agreed to purchase 

 two carloads of cows, which he did; he brought the 

 bull home with him, Tregrehan sired quite a num- 

 ber of show cattle besides Fowler and transmitted 

 to his get the power to breed on and give to his 

 descendants, even to the third and fourth genera- 

 tion, his wonderful constitution, early-maturing 

 qualities, smoothness of flesh and noted showyard 

 style. 



"As will be seen on looking over a tabulated pedi- 

 gree, Tregrehan was bred right to be a right sire; 

 his sire, Assurance 4589, was almost a full brother 

 in blood to imp. Anxiety, both being by Longhoms 

 out of DeCote cows, while his dam traces back to old 

 Sir Benjamin. His dam. Princess 1990, besides be- 

 ing a heavy milker was naturally a thick-fleshed 

 cow and soon got fat when dry. She was a long- 

 bodied, roomy cow, with a well sprung rib, extra 

 long hindquarters, a beautiful head and fine droop- 

 ing horns — just the kind of cow one would expect 

 to be a good producer. An examination of the tabu- 

 lated pedigree of Fowler will show that we have 

 close up not only the Assurance or Anxiety blood 

 through his sire, but through his dam the blood of 

 Sir Richard 2d and old Success, two of the most 

 noted bulls of their day and to which the Hereford 

 breed owes much of its prominence in America to- 

 day by their use in the herds of T. L. Miller, C. M. 

 Culbertson and others of the earlier American 

 breeders. Tracing back further we find the blood of 

 old Sir Thomas in several lines, also that of the 



