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this may have partly arisen from the sales of several herds which 
heretofore formed valuable acquisitions to our shows. Yet it was 
very gratifying to remark that we had some fresh exhibitors, and 
that the area from whence they come to our show is gradually 
enlarging. A few years since we were mainly supplied by 
the county from whence they take their name. This year 
the entries were 38, out of which 37 entered the arena of 
competition ; only 17 of these were from Herefordshire, the 
remaining 20 were respectively from the counties of Glamorgan, 
Brecon, Montgomery, Salop, Gloucester, and Surrey. 
" In Class I., Mr. Rea's ' Sir Richard ' was a massive, compact, 
heavy -fleshed animal, displaying a beautiful placid countenance, 
denoting that docility for which this breed is highly distin- 
guished ; his general character led us to imagine that h^ was 
descended from no mean race, and upon reference to ' The Herd 
Book,' we find he claims the distinguished bull ' Sir Benjamin ' 
as his sire, and the still more celebrated ' Sir David ' as his 
grandsire : he is also closely allied to ' Royal,' and other prize- 
winning animals at this Society's shows. ' Sylvius,' winner of 
the second prize, claims the same sire as ' Sir Richard ;' but 
' Honour,' winner of the third prize, presented an appearance 
which bespoke a different parentage, and we find he is descended 
from quite a distinct strain of blood, as is denoted by his long, 
level, fleshy back, bearing a broad white stripe along the whole 
length, namely, from that once-fashionable blood known as the 
' Tomkins ' breed. He was the only animal exhibited which did 
not in all its marks of colour perfectly correspond with the 
characteristic description of the Hereford given in a recent 
number of this Journal.* 
" !n Class II. Mr. Hill's ' Milton,' winner of the first prize, 
displayed great constitution, plenty of good flesh, which was 
evenly laid on, and in his general character great perfection of 
breeding. He was rather dark in colour, and here we think it 
worthy of notice that nearly all the first-prize animals and many 
of the second were of the same dark colour ; and upon again 
referring to ' The Herd Book ' we discover a remarkable I'act, 
that they are all closely allied to the well-known strain of blood 
called the ' Knight Greys,' a breed kept together by the late T. 
A. Knight, Esq., Downton Castle, and originally descended from 
the ' Tully Greys,' which were nearly all of a light grey colour, 
sometimes perfectly white. That the produce from such li-ght- 
coloured animals when crossed with what is now acknowledged 
to be the aboriginal breed should be so much darker in colour, 
is certainly very peculiar ; yet so it is, for not only is the 
* See Mr. Robert Smith's Live Stock Report of Warwick Meeting. 
