. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. INTRODUCTION Court. Being the favorite son he would have his pick of tiie best of them, and the two herds were afterwards bred conjointly for twenty years, when on his father's death, in 1789, he acquired the stock and farm at Wellington Court. In the meantime B. Tomkins, Jr., had acquired the Court House and Brook House Farms, Kmg's-Pyon, in addition to the Black- hall, so that the father and son together occu- pied three and for a time four farms from 650 to 840 acres in extent. How closely th
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. INTRODUCTION Court. Being the favorite son he would have his pick of tiie best of them, and the two herds were afterwards bred conjointly for twenty years, when on his father's death, in 1789, he acquired the stock and farm at Wellington Court. In the meantime B. Tomkins, Jr., had acquired the Court House and Brook House Farms, Kmg's-Pyon, in addition to the Black- hall, so that the father and son together occu- pied three and for a time four farms from 650 to 840 acres in extent. How closely they worked together is shown by his having his fathers stock and farm on his death. The lives and work of father and son were so inti- mately blended together that no wonder after many years succeeding generations, without close inquiry, regarded their work as that of one man. "The father worked for 47 years (from 1742 to 1789) and the son for about the same number (1769-1815), and they worked together for about thirty of the seventy-three years of their joint breeding career. This oc- cupying of several farms with separate home- steads enabled them not only to keep more cat- tle, but to keep the different strains distinct in different places, enabling them to carry out their system of line breeding without neces- sarily using very near affinities. It has been imagined that they inbred their cattle very closely, but this idea is not justified by facts. It is well known that they bred all the bulls they used, and that they kept several at each homestead, thus enabling them to cross in their own herds from selected variations in desired directions without close in-breeding. They likewise had a wide family circle breed- ing the same variety of cattle, which gave them a still wider range for the exercise of their judgment and skill. When working alone we know'that these two men achieved a most marvelous success. What must have been the power of their united judg- ments during t
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