. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 36r classes, viz., the mottle faced, the dark gre_y, the light grey or white, and the red with white face, yet, after the lapse of only thirty-eight years, people question the purity of the breed, if they have not the characteristics of the well-known white face and markings. "Mr. Duckham says, 'the present uniformity of the color is due to the influence of the bull,' and this is a remarkable corroboration of my views, expressed in a paper on 'Breeding, facts and
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 36r classes, viz., the mottle faced, the dark gre_y, the light grey or white, and the red with white face, yet, after the lapse of only thirty-eight years, people question the purity of the breed, if they have not the characteristics of the well-known white face and markings. "Mr. Duckham says, 'the present uniformity of the color is due to the influence of the bull,' and this is a remarkable corroboration of my views, expressed in a paper on 'Breeding, facts and principles,' which I read at a meeting of the Central Farmers' Club, some few years since, when I propounded the dictum (which, by-the- bye, was not new), 'that the male exercised the external characteristics, and the internal organ- ization followed the female,' in nearly every class of animal. "Long before the commencement of the Herd Book, the Herefords had made 'a reputation and a name,' by being continually successful at the Smithfield Club annual fat stock show, from its establishment in 1799, by Mr. West- car, of Creslow, near Aylesbury, Bucks, and who for twenty years in succession won the premium prize with Hereford oxen, against all kinds of cattle. I had not an opportunity of knowing Mr. Westcar, as he died before ray day, but I had been for many years on intimate terms with his relative and successor, Mr. R. Rowland, who gave me many interesting stories of Mr. Westcar, who was, undoubtedly, the first man to bring the Herefords to the front against all the world. I remember Mr. Rowland telling me, whilst standing in the midst of the far- famed Creslow Great Ground, and on a spot marked by a clump of trees, where Mr. West- car's lifeless body was found, he having fallen dead from his horse, how the Duke of Bedford, in the latter part of the last century, was down with Mr. Westcar to Hereford in his carriage and four post-horses, taking two days for the journey, a
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