. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. CATTLE CATTLE 353 that the prize for the champion steer over all breeds at the first show of the Smithfield Club held at London in 1799 was won by a Hereford steer, and the same for several subsequent years. At a dispersion sale by auction of the breeding herd of one of the early improvers of the Hereford, held in. Fig. 376. Hereford bull. Dandy Rex 1819, the average of the sale was about $750 per head. In America.—Importations of a few head of Herefords were made to America in 1817, 1824, and 1840. The first two of these importa
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. CATTLE CATTLE 353 that the prize for the champion steer over all breeds at the first show of the Smithfield Club held at London in 1799 was won by a Hereford steer, and the same for several subsequent years. At a dispersion sale by auction of the breeding herd of one of the early improvers of the Hereford, held in. Fig. 376. Hereford bull. Dandy Rex 1819, the average of the sale was about $750 per head. In America.—Importations of a few head of Herefords were made to America in 1817, 1824, and 1840. The first two of these importations were unfortunate in that in one case the bull died, and in the other the cow died. The difficulties and risks attending the making of importations of cattle at that time wTere so great that no attempt was made to keep up the race, and the result was that they became merged into other stocks and disappeared. The importation of 1840 was somewhat larger and more successful in that the cattle were maintained in their purity and pedigree records were kept. The descendants of this importation have continued to the present day and are registered in the Ameri- can Hereford Record. It was not until the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876 that the cattle-growers of the western part of the United States were at- tracted to the visible merits of this breed of cattle. A very attractive herd of the descendants of later importations was on exhibition on this occasion. To nearly all of the cattle-men of the West the Hereford was an unheard-of breed, and their uniformity, color and markings, together with their beef-carrying qualities, were revela- tions to them. As the cattle-growing interests were at that time assuming enormous proportions in the country west of the Missouri river, these visiting cattle-men were the more easily prevailed on to give the Herefords a trial under their system of production. In the few succeeding years all the bulls obtain- able of this breed we
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