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to exploit his favorites afforded by the columns of 

 the then newly established magazine, the "National 

 Live-Stock Journal' ', of which the late James H. 

 Sanders who subsequently founded "The Breed- 

 er's Gazette" was godfather. The Illinois State 

 Board of Agriculture had finally agreed to set up a 

 class for Herefords and offered the same money 

 prizes as for other breeds, whereupon Mr. Aldrich 

 decided to ' ' carry the war into Africa. ' ' According- 

 ly we find him writing to the Chicago periodical 

 above named in the summer of 1871, to this effect : 



"I have seen Mr. Humphries, and he will go with 

 me to the Illinois State Fair. We shall not attend 

 our state fair. Illinois has done nobly in offering 

 liberal premiums, and we appreciate it, and will 

 patronize her. I intend to put a bull and five cows 

 and nine calves on that fair grounds which will do 

 stockmen good to look at and handle. Mr. Humph- 

 ries' stock is in good show condition the best I 

 ever saw them. I shall bring old Duchess and two 

 calves she raised this summer. I think there will 

 be the best lot of Herefords shown at Duquoin this 

 fall ever shown at any one fair in America. ' ' 



The Ohio cattle were shown that year at Cleve- 

 land, Elyria, the Illinois State Fair at Duquoin, 

 and St. Louis, which was at that date and for years 

 later the leading agricultural show of America. Evi- 

 dently this swing round the circuit was productive of 

 good results, and Mr. Aldrich 's own testimony as 

 to his reception proves that he encountered neither 

 active hostility nor unfairness towards the new type. 

 He says: 



"At the Illinois State Fair I showed sixteen head, 



