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breeds, it has also brought in somewhat greater smoothness of 

 finish and a greater wealth of flesh element than any breed on earth; 

 and it is this that the Aberdeen Angus has contributed to improve 

 the beef cattle of America. 



EARLY ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 

 AMERICAN HEREFORD CATTLE BREEDERS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



(C. R. Thomas, Secretary.) 



The corporation known as the American Hereford Cattle 

 Breeders' Association was organized at a meeting of a few Hereford 

 breeders held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, III., on the 22d 

 of June, 1881, the call therefor having been made at the instance 

 of Mr. C .M. Culbertson. The officers elected at this meeting were : 

 President, C. M. Culbertson, Chicago ; vice-presidents, A. H. Swan, 

 Wyoming; W. H. Todd, Ohio; Wm. Hamilton, Michigan; R. W. 

 Sample, Indiana ; B. Hershey, Iowa, and Wm. H. Sotham, Illinois ; 

 treasurer, Adams Earl, Lafayette, Ind.; and secretary, T. E. Miller, 

 Beecher, 111. The board of directors were J. M. Studebaker, A. H. 

 Seabury, W. S. Van Natta, N. Abbe, G. S. Burleigh, A. D. Raub, 

 H. Norris, Chas. Gudgell and E. R. Price. 



The objects and purposes of this organization, as set forth 

 by resolution adopted at this meeting, were to promote the inter- 

 ests of the Hereford breed of cattle, and to secure their introduc- 

 tion and trial more generally throughout the beef-producing sec- 

 tions of the country, as they believed that a fair and impartial trial 

 of these cattle by the side of representatives of other beef breeds 

 would establish their superiority as profitable beef producers, both 

 as grazers and in the stalls, in ability to withstand hardship and 

 in quality of product. 



At this time Volume 1 of the American Hereford Record was 

 in print, the same having been published by the Breeders' Live Stock 

 Association of Beecher, Illinois, an organization of which Mr. T. 

 L. Miller was the dominant spirit. 



A committee of members of the Association, composed of C. B. 

 Stuart, G. S. Burleigh and W. S.- Van Natta, was appointed at this 

 meeting, to examine into the entries admitted to this volume, with 

 a possible view of later purchasing the same, together with the 

 copyright that Mr. Miller had procured. 



