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Modern English Herefords. — ^It will be noted that 

 our detailed narration of the Herefordshire side of 

 this story ended with the general suspension of im- 

 portations about 1890. Writing as we are for Amer- 

 ican readers and limited as we must be in the matter 

 of space, it has been found quite impracticable to 

 refer specially to what has been doing in more recent 

 years in the old home of the breed. The truth is 

 that our own breeders have felt for a long time 

 past that they had actually passed their colleagues 

 across the sea in the matter of the elevation of the 

 Hereford standard of merit. 



And yet the old blood is still doing its wondrous 

 work over there in the beautiful Severn vale. 

 Handed down from father to son, as in the days 

 of old, prized and preserved as the proudest pos- 

 session a Herefordshire farmer can boast, undis- 

 turbed by the ceaseless rise and fall of prices, un- 

 moved by any extraneous influence whatsoever, the 

 descendants of the Hereford fathers, staunch de- 

 fenders of their heritage, are still producing cattle 

 the equal of any that have hitherto been seen in 

 their native pastures or in the great forum of the 

 Royal showyard. This is clearly indicated by the 

 illustrations of recent prize-winners reproduced 

 in these pages. 



And in acknowledging our debt to these steadfast 

 men of Hereford, notwithstanding the claim that 

 we have evolved here a more uniform type of cat- 

 tle, let us not be hasty in declaring our inde- 

 pendence. Great as have been our results in the 



