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In the Agricultural Gazette (London) we find the following: 
“This breed enjoyed the remarkable distinction of producing both the 
champion animals at Oxford. Mr. Aaron Rogers’ Grateful being 
declared to be the best bull, and Mrs. Sarah Edwards’ Beatrice (a two 
year old heifer) being declared to be the best cow or heifer in the yard. 
Both, as may be supposed, were very good, the heifer pre-eminently so. 
She is a daughter of the famous bull, Winter de Cote, and another 
instance of hereditary merit. 
“The yearling heifers and calves indicate that this breed is, as beef 
makers at an early age, quite up to the highest Short-Horn standard. 
The Teeswater may milk better, and be more ready in adapting itself to 
local circumstances ; but where the pasture is good, it is hard to beat the 
white-faces for grazing.” 
The Chamber of Agriculture Journal (London) also says: 
“The old bull Hereford class produced an extraordinary animal in Mr. 
Aaron Rogers’ Grateful, w T ho secured the reserve at the Hereford Show 
in 1876, but did not make his appearance at Bath or Liverpool last year. 
He has made wonderful development since, appearing as a two-year-old, 
as is proved by the fact that Thoughtful, who was then placed above him, 
and has since taken firsts at Birmingham, Liverpool and Bath, has now 
been put second to him ; and that not only was he selected by the judges 
as the best Hereford bull on the ground, but in tho contest for the 
championship succeeded in carrying it off against such a Short-Horn 
competitor as Sir Arthur Ingram. This is no slight honor to the 
Hereford breed, and of course any animal counted worthy of such a 
distinction must be a first-class one. Grateful, at four years old, has 
capital loins and chines, with great thickness and depth of frame, and is 
very level all over ; but his grand feature is the astounding mass of 
flesh with which his frame is covered. His girth is eight feet ten and 
one-half inches. Thoughtful has frequently been described in these 
columns, and it is sufficient to state that he is a massive, grand bull, who 
well supports his merit. The next class was a very weak on-?, only 
consisting of two, and those not so good as the herds of Mr. H. N. 
Edwards and Mr. Philip Turner arc accustomed to supply. 
“In the cow class the late Mr. Warren Evans’ Lady Blanche, which took 
second prize at Bath, now came to the front position. She is marvelous 
at her fore flank, and displays a great mass of flesh on a well-shaped, 
grand frame, which, however, fell off slightly at the rump. The second 
prize cow, Mr. E. J. Lewis’ Little Beauty, had a highly commended at 
Bath, and wonderfully retains her show-yard merit at eleven years old. 
The two-year-old heifers of Mrs. Sarah Edwards, Leonora and Beatrice, 
Ve re, of course, sure to win. Beatrice has recently reared a calf, winch 
