A gentleman who was very fond of writing poetry wrote a couple of
lines which might be quoted against him although he has long since
joined the majority. He wrote:--
Let laws and learning, art and commerce die,
But keep us still our old nobility.
The last line can be altered as you like, and you can put anything you
like for laws and learning, I would say buffaloes or anything else,
but keep our shorthorns. In breeding shorthorns a pedigree of a long
line of ancestors is indispensable. Mr. Stratton and myself have tried
to work on those lines by breeding the nobility of shorthorns.
_Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport,
October 7th, 1909._
[Illustration: "_I always find great difficulty in obtaining entrance
to the dairy competitions._"]