. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF HEEEFORD CATTLE 17 which will indicate the owner's estimate of their worth: "12 cows and calves at £40 ($200) each, £480 ($2,400) ; 12 ox^^n at £43 ($215) each, £516 ($2,580); 10 two-year-olds at £20 ($100) each, £200 ($1,000); 10 year- lings at £15 ($75) each, £150 ($750)." An average for old and voung, steers and breeding stock of over £30 ($150) each. Only a comparatively small number of the bulls bred by Benjamin Tomkins were entered iij the Herd Book, and in few cases a
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF HEEEFORD CATTLE 17 which will indicate the owner's estimate of their worth: "12 cows and calves at £40 ($200) each, £480 ($2,400) ; 12 ox^^n at £43 ($215) each, £516 ($2,580); 10 two-year-olds at £20 ($100) each, £200 ($1,000); 10 year- lings at £15 ($75) each, £150 ($750)." An average for old and voung, steers and breeding stock of over £30 ($150) each. Only a comparatively small number of the bulls bred by Benjamin Tomkins were entered iij the Herd Book, and in few cases are par- ticulars given of their breeding. Wellington (4) 160 (P) is registered simply as coming under the division of the mottle faces, and as having been bred by Mr. B. Tomkins. He passed into the possession of Mr. Price, and was purchased at his sale in 1816 by Mr. Jelli- coe of Beighterton for £283 10s, ($1,400), be- ing afterwards sold to Mr. Germaine. He was considered by Mr. Tomkins the best bull he ever bred, his Silver Bull (41) 432, excepted, and also the best stock getter. In Vol. 1 of the English Herd Book, there is a colored litho- graph (reproduced herein) of this bull from a painting by Mr. Welles, representing a compact, straight animal, of fine size, with fine hone, mottle face, white dewlap, and white along the lower parts of the body. Another of Tomkins' bulls registered in A^ol. 1, is Ben (96) 6703, of which the editor, Mr. Eyton, says that "Miss Tomkins informed him that Ben was by Sam (144) 6704, out of one of Mr. Tomkins' cows called ; Sam (144) 6704, is without recorded pedigree, all that is said concerning him being that he was bred by B. Tomkins. Wild Bull (145) 3040, bred by Tomkins, was, on Miss Tomkins' authority, said to be by Sil- ver Bull (41) 432, out of Tidy 340. Phoenix (55) 3035, a mottle face,, out of Storrell 3039, bred by Mr. Tomkins and got by Wild Bull (145) '3040, was purchased at Miss Tomkins' sale in 1819 for
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