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than any other cattle-breeding establishment 

 in North America. .It is but justice to add that 

 in the triumphal tours of the "seventies" a 

 considerable share of the credit for success was 

 due to the skill of Mr. Harry Loveland as a 

 feeder. Loveland was one of the recognized 

 experts of his time in the United States in this 

 line of work, and had come to Oakland from 

 the herd of Rigdon Huston & Sons, Blandins- 

 ville, 111. He subsequently entered the employ 

 of the Hereford exhibitors and repeated with 

 Beau Real and other "white-faces" his suc- 

 cesses with Short-horns. For the major portion 

 of the time, however, that the Jacksonville herd 

 was in the thick of the fight it was under the 

 immediate personal supervision of Mr. William 

 T. Potts (the son), under whose alert direction 

 the Oakland Short-horns rounded out a record 

 at American fairs and fat-stock shows that has 

 not been surpassed in the annals of American 

 cattle-breeding. 



The Wilhoit herd. In a previous chapter 

 we have referred to Mr. Thomas Wilhoit, one 

 of the pioneer breeders of the State of Indiana. 

 A cross of the Scotch blood upon his herd in 

 the later years of his breeding produced such 

 extraordinary results that the circumstance 

 must be here recognized as another one of the 

 various causes leading up to the popularity of 

 the North Country Short-horns in the West. 



