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distinction to horses — is a branch of the business of breeding 
at times very loosely rejjarded, and, as it seems to me, the 
supervision of entries should be more carefully taken up by 
the stewards, or others, previously to the catalogue being printed 
or the nomination passed. I have seen and heard of some curious 
cases of manufactured pedigrees during this last summer. In the 
Shorthorn show at Cardiff, however, the visitor came again and 
again on highly bred stock now flourishing about Bridgend, 
Tredegar, Newport, Chepstow, Cowbridge, Castletown, Llandilo, 
Pembroke, Newcastle Emlyn, and in other parts of Monmouth- 
shire, Glamorganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and 
Cardiganshire. With such evidence as this before us, it is easy 
to see how the brindles are lost and the blacks are scarce. 
Still the Shorthorn was not altogether omnipotent, as certainly 
" in places " the best illustration of any breed on the ground was 
that offered by the Herefords, and the Herefords are now doing 
so well in South Wales, that it is a nice question whether some 
of them will not eclipse the older established herds so care- 
fully maintained in Herefordshire and Shropshire. It is not 
often that one man can show so strongly as Mr. Thomas, of St. 
Hilary, did with his grandly-grown heifers, uniting, as they do, 
scale with quality ; and Usk, Cardiff, Welshpool, Brecon, Eglwys- 
nunyd, and Cowbridge, again tell of how the Whitefaces have 
crept over from the confines of their own county. The Judges 
say that " probably four better cows of any breed than the four 
Herefords placed were never seen in the same class ; " and I 
should almost be inclined to go on and say there probably never 
was a better class. There was the stamp of high breeding, and 
of the same breeding, about them all. Some might be more 
elegant and "finer" in their character than others, but there 
was that uniformity of points, markings, and " presence," which 
should be the aim of every one who goes to perpetuate or im- 
prove a breed. In the companion class of Shorthorn cows, the 
speckled first, the delicate white second, or the broad, roomy, 
roan, commended, had really little in common ; but almost any 
one of these Hereford cows might have been accepted as a 
model of her kind. Mr. Peren's sweet cow was still first, as at 
Wolverhampton, where the Judges reported somewhat against 
her in this way : " Ivington Rose, one of the best Hereford 
cows ever seen, appears rather overfed for breeding purposes." 
But since this was written, she has had one calf, and is in-calf 
again. I confess to have always had an especial fancy for 
Duchess of Bedford, here only the reserve; "but being near 
her calving-time, she was not even behind." I shall not attempt 
further to anticipate or interfere with the Judges' own Report on 
the Herefords, wherein good reason for everything is given. 
