350 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



in Herefords. An item in the "National Live-Stock 

 Journal" for February, 1872, reads as follows: 



"We learn that Messrs. Byers and Campbell, of 

 Nevada, 0., have sold to Messrs. T. L. Miller and 

 Wm. Powell of Highland Stock Farm, Beecher, 

 Will Co., 111., an undivided half interest in three 

 Hereford cows and two bulls and thirty-six purebred 

 Cotswold sheep. It is Mr. Byers' intention to start 

 for England about April 1, for the purpose of obtain- 

 ing more Hereford cattle. " 



Sir Charles. In the summer of 1872 Mr. Miller 

 bought the famous Canadian show bull Sir Charles 

 (3434), then five years old and weighing about 2,700 

 pounds, from Frederick William Stone of Guelph, 

 for the sum of $1,000 in gold, which with the prem- 

 ium then commanded by the yellow metal equaled 

 $1,300. This was the first high-priced Hereford 

 brought into the west. Mr. Miller was a great be- 

 liever in advertising, and one of his first acts after 

 acquiring old Sir Charles was to arrange to have him 

 sketched by E. H. Dewey, just then entering upon 

 his career as a live stock artist. This was the be- 

 ginning of an active campaign of newspaper and 

 showyard publicity that gave Hereford stock its 

 first sharp upward turn in the western cattle trade. 

 Sir Charles ' picture was the frontispiece in the issue 

 of the old "Journal" for September, 1872, and in 

 the following number another of those queer old- 

 fashioned wood cuts appeared bearing this legend: 

 "Hereford cow belonging to Miller & Powell, Beech- 

 er, 111." She was an old "line-back" with calf at 

 foot. Sir Charles went to the butcher at 10 years 



