. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. INTRODUCTION dairy, supposed to have been purchased at the fair of Kington^ on the confines of Wales. Mr.' Tonakms remarked the extraordinary tendency of these animals to become fat. On his mar- riage he acquired these two cows and com- menced breeding them on his own account. The one with more white he called 'Pigeon' and the other of a rich red color with a spotted face he called 'Mottle.' " Further he says: "He then began a system of breeding that ultimately completely altered the c
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. INTRODUCTION dairy, supposed to have been purchased at the fair of Kington^ on the confines of Wales. Mr.' Tonakms remarked the extraordinary tendency of these animals to become fat. On his mar- riage he acquired these two cows and com- menced breeding them on his own account. The one with more white he called 'Pigeon' and the other of a rich red color with a spotted face he called 'Mottle.' " Further he says: "He then began a system of breeding that ultimately completely altered the character of the ; Low applied this information to B. Tomkins, Jr., who mar- ried his first cousin Sarali, daughter of Richard Tomkins, of Wormsley Grange, in 1772. Family tradition and the King's-Pyon register attest that his father died in 1748, when Mr. B. Tomkins, Jr., was but three years old, con- sequently he could not have been in the "em- ployment of an individual, afterwards his father-in-law;" nor is it likely that Low's in- formant would call his first cousin "daughter of an ; This expression may well have been applied to the elder man's wife, as in the lapse of years her father's name would most likely have been forgotten. It may be retorted that it was the widow who employed him, but Eichard Tomkins left three sons, Eichard, George and Thomas, aged twelve, eight and two years respectively. All were brought up as farmers, so that the widow could not have at any time required the services of her nephew when old enough even to manage for her. As to his ever being employed as a dairyman, the idea is absurd, for his father, as will be shown, had only two sons, and was a well-to-do man at the time. Many other circumstances prove this por- tion of Low's information to refer to B. Tom- kins, Sr., on his marriage in 1742. Low -not knowing that there had been two of the same name applied it to the son, on his marriage in 1772. Aga
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