. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 28 HISTOEY OF HEEEFOED CATTLE for the animals he actually bought from the great breeder at Wellington Court. Mr. Welles expresses the opinion that Mr. Price had only one of the Tomkins bulls, the celebrated Well- ington (4) 16U. But in addition to that animal he owned Voltaire (39a)- 429, a white-faced bull bred by Tomkins, and an imnamed bull of his breeding that appears m some of his ped- igrees. Price seems to have followed Tomkins not only in his system of in-and-in breeding, but also in his

. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 28 HISTOEY OF HEEEFOED CATTLE for the animals he actually bought from the great breeder at Wellington Court. Mr. Welles expresses the opinion that Mr. Price had only one of the Tomkins bulls, the celebrated Well- ington (4) 16U. But in addition to that animal he owned Voltaire (39a)- 429, a white-faced bull bred by Tomkins, and an imnamed bull of his breeding that appears m some of his ped- igrees. Price seems to have followed Tomkins not only in his system of in-and-in breeding, but also in his

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. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 28 HISTOEY OF HEEEFOED CATTLE for the animals he actually bought from the great breeder at Wellington Court. Mr. Welles expresses the opinion that Mr. Price had only one of the Tomkins bulls, the celebrated Well- ington (4) 16U. But in addition to that animal he owned Voltaire (39a)- 429, a white-faced bull bred by Tomkins, and an imnamed bull of his breeding that appears m some of his ped- igrees. Price seems to have followed Tomkins not only in his system of in-and-in breeding, but also in his disregard of color. It will have been noticed that the colors of the cows he ac- quired from Tomkins varied greatly. Then among the bulls, Wellington was a mottle-face; Voltaire a white face, and A-'ictory (33) (|f 19) calved in 1839, bred by Price, was chosen for illustration in the first volume of the Herd Book as a typical specimen of the grey variety;. THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, BORN 1759. (From an old lithograph.) while the portrait of Young Trueboy (32) 630 (J 20) is also given m Volume 2 as a specimen of the greys, although in the entry of the first volume he is stated to have been a mottle face. One of the most remarkable cows owned by Mr. Price was Tobv Pigeon 308 by Toby (5) 372, dam Pigeon, or Price's No. 6, 373,"bred by B. Tomkins. It is stated in the entry of one of this cow's produce in Volume 1 of the Herd Book, that nearly the whole of Mr. Price's herd sold in- 1841 were derived from her. At 19 years of age she had bred 19 calves, having taken the bull by chance when a calf, and at 3 and 4 years old she had twins. The following is a list of her progeny: Woodcock Pigeon 651, by Woodcock (50) 654; bull, Solon (92); bull died; Miss Woodman; bull. Young Woodman (12)238; bull, Paris (19) 6657; bull. Plenipo- tentiary (23); cow, sold to Mr. Monkhouse; bull. Trusty (15) 643; cow; cow died young; ditto Burton Pigeon