. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 140 HISTORY OF IlEREFOED CATTLE bred bv Mr. Turner, purchased by Mr. Hewer for ilr. James Walker, and the onFv reason 1 altered her name was 1 had one named "Spot' in mv tirst imjiortation. "1 will give niv views on sheep breeding at some future period. 1 think nothing is a better test for pirotitable animals than those that get the greatest weight of animal food with the least vegetables. "Wm. Hy. 80THAM. -Fereh Lake Farm. April, ; We now give a letter from Mr. Win. Kin
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 140 HISTORY OF IlEREFOED CATTLE bred bv Mr. Turner, purchased by Mr. Hewer for ilr. James Walker, and the onFv reason 1 altered her name was 1 had one named "Spot' in mv tirst imjiortation. "1 will give niv views on sheep breeding at some future period. 1 think nothing is a better test for pirotitable animals than those that get the greatest weight of animal food with the least vegetables. "Wm. Hy. 80THAM. -Fereh Lake Farm. April, ; We now give a letter from Mr. Win. King- ham, whuh may be found m the "Cultivator," on page llii: "Messrs. Editors of the 'Cultivator": 1 have been mdu-ced to take up my pen by the perusal of a controversy between Messrs. Randall, Hep- burn and Sotham. I have been acquainted with the Hereford cattle for the last thirty years, as a grazier, a dairyman and butcher. My father u^ed to graze about fifty and dairy about seventy cows, of ditferent breeds, Longhonis, Short- horns and Herefords, in Oxfordshire, England. For feeding, the Herefords are not surpassed by any breed I have ever seen ; for the dairy, I do not say they are invariably good milkers, though they are, many of them, very good. I never kept an account of the produce of a single cow, but one of my neighbors says he knew a Hereford cow that made sixteen pounds of but- ter per week. As a butcher, which business I worked at in London, and afterwards followed in Berkshire for eight years, I say the Here-. -«^m-^^^i2^^^fe^ MARCHIONESS, BRED BY E. CORNING. JR., ALBANY, N. Y. (First prize, N. Y'. S. F., 1SG7. From a drawiug by Page.) fords cut the best stall of l)eef I ever put a knife in. Mr. Hepburn takes Youati for liis author, and by his descrijition is led to believe the Herefords to have been a trifling breed as lately as six years ago. 1 know them to have been as good thirty years since as now, and whenever they have been shown agains
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