782 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



which sobriquet clung to him long after his 

 identity was revealed. The news of his appear- 

 ance and of his overpowering flesh and sub- 

 stance traveled far and fast. Cupbearer at the 

 Ohio State Fair was renewing his triumphs of 

 previous years, and before the first meeting of 

 the two North Country champions occurred at 

 the Illinois State Fair at Peoria interest in the 

 impending duel had become intense. Probably 

 no event in American show-yard history aroused 

 more intense excitement than attended this 

 memorable meeting*. The following review of 

 this rencontre from notes made by the author at 

 the time was published in the Breeder's Gazette 

 for Oct. 8, 1890 : 



"I have read so much about Cupbearer in THE GAZETTE for the 

 past two or three years, and was so interested in your account of 



"The judges upon this occasion were Messrs. Thomas Clark, Beecher, 

 111., one of America's best breeders and most successful exhibitors of 

 Herefords; and Robert B. Ogilvie, late of Madison, Wis. Mr. Ogilvie, while 

 devoted to mercantile pursuits, has been a life-long admirer of the im- 

 proved breeds of live-stock, and for a quarter of a century has enjoyed the 

 acquaintance of practically all of the leading breeders and exhibitors of 

 the United States and Canada. He acquired international reputation as a 

 breeder of Clydesdales at Blairgowrie Farm ; his exhibits of draft horses 

 of that type, with the famous McQueen at the head, constituting one of 

 the chief attractions of the Clydesdale dhows of their time. Fond of a 

 good Short-horn, a recognized judge of sheep and a close student of every- 

 thing pertaining to stock- breeding interests, Mr. Ogilvie possessed a wide 

 and varied range of information bearing upon all the leading types of do- 

 mestic animals. 



Cupbearer in his old age became the property of Milton E. Jones of 

 Cherry Grove Farm, Williamsville, 111., in whose hands he died several 

 years since. It cannot be said that he ever had a thorough test as a breed- 

 ing bull, as he was passed around from one herd to another and kept in 

 show condition for so many years that he never had full opportunity of 

 demonstrating what he might be worth for stock purposes. In the hands 

 of William Miller at Storm Lake, he got one of the best Scotch cows ever 

 owned in the West the beautiful roan Gwendoline 3d, sold to Col Mober- 

 ley and afterward bought by Messrs. Mitchel . 



