. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF H E E E F 0 R D CATTLE 59 you would have been so kind as to have shown me why you still adhered to that opinion and where (in that ox) 1 and all others whom I heard speak of him were mistaken. ''In my letter, which you inserted in No. G7, I took the liberty of observing that in your 62d number you (mentioning that the Sussex cattle were not so broad and heavy in the shoul- der -as the Herefordshire) said, 'whether this is a fault wiU admit an argument.^ I expressed my wish that you ha
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF H E E E F 0 R D CATTLE 59 you would have been so kind as to have shown me why you still adhered to that opinion and where (in that ox) 1 and all others whom I heard speak of him were mistaken. ''In my letter, which you inserted in No. G7, I took the liberty of observing that in your 62d number you (mentioning that the Sussex cattle were not so broad and heavy in the shoul- der -as the Herefordshire) said, 'whether this is a fault wiU admit an argument.^ I expressed my wish that you had expounded the argument against its being a fault. You did not favor my wish with any notice, either in the Annals or in your letter. But as these particulars, by which the right and best shape and make to be aimed for in breeding cattle are, as you have often observed, of much consequence to public benefit, as well as to the particular interest of every individual who breeds cattle, many or few; I will still hope you will favor us with the argument to prove a light and narrow shoulder to be no fault. I still undertake to produce you, any day of the year, ocular and manual proof, that it may be weighty, broad and fat, also without being found a deduction from the more valuable parts. "As by what you said of the advertisement above mentioned, I find my last years weighty ox, which you viewed and handled here, did not make the impression on you I thought he must, and that I had conceived he did by your not then mentioning an objection to what I said. I will hope for the favor of your company here scmetime this season, when I may have some of my feeding stock in a state of proof to that impartial equality all parts of a beef may be looked for, in respect to weight and fatness, as v/ell as I shall have lean slock at home which may afford very intelligent signs of what, with the greatest confidence, might be expected, when coming to that proof. "You mentioned in your 63d
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