THE HEREFORD 



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that the cattle of Hereford and some neighboring districts acquired 

 their red color from their Anglo-Saxon ancestors and their size 

 and their white faces and underlines from Holland. Some empha- 

 sis has been laid on the fact that in the herd of one of the Tullys 

 of Huntington about the middle of the eighteenth century a bull 

 calf with white face was dropped, which later as a sire produced 

 many white-faced calves. Hereford color, however, has varied 

 during the history of the breed. In 1788 Marshall wrote that the 



Fig. 103. " The Bull," by Paul Potter (162 5-1654). From a painting in the gallery 



at The Hague, Holland. Note the white face and leg of the cow, suggestive of 



the early-day Hereford 



prevailing color was red with a bald face. In time a wider range 

 of color crept in, so that in 1845, when Eyton published the 

 first herdbook, he grouped Herefords into four classes : namely, 

 mottle-faced, light gray, dark gray, and red with white face. 

 Twenty-five years later, however, all of the colors but the last 

 were practically extinct. 



Early constructive Hereford breeders date back well into the 

 eighteenth century. A number of men have attained special dis- 

 tinction in this work, some of whom deserve more than passing 

 notice here. Among ths^fesar^ytjbgr&^/fe^ing : 



