344 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



to me while there, hoping to meet them again at 

 their next fairs." 



The Burleighs Bring Herefords Into Iowa. 

 A two-column report of the Iowa State Fair of 1871, 

 held at Cedar Eapids, published in the "National 

 Live-Stock Journal", contains a two-line report on 

 the Hereford show as follows : 



"Messrs. J. H. & G. S. Burleigh of Mechanicsville, 

 la., had some Herefords on exhibition. ' ' 



We find no reference to the breed's appearance in 

 Iowa prior to this date. As a mere boy helping with 

 his father's exhibits of live stock, the writer at- 

 tended all the Iowa state fairs of the early "seven- 

 ties ' \ and while he has a distinct recollection of the 

 Elliott & Kent and other Shorthorn herds in compe- 

 tition, he now recalls no Hereford entries. That they 

 were sparingly shown in that state as early as 1871 

 is, however, a matter of record. - - 



The Burleighs here mentioned were brothers of 

 Mr. Hall C. Burleigh of Maine, mentioned in the 

 preceding chapter. The father, John Rogers Bur- 

 leigh, had begun to farm near Waterville, Me., in 

 the early "twenties" upon a tract of land so rocky 

 that his descendants, revisiting the old home and 

 recalling the traditions as to his accomplishments 

 there, marveled that any man could have wrested even 

 a sustenance from such a shallow soil. But typical 

 son of New England that he was, with sound old 

 British blood flowing in his veins, keen and far-see- 

 ing in business, with as high a sense of honor and 

 right living as any man ever possessed, John Eog- 



