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lowed to come together for a " sweepstakes " con- 

 test. The result upon this occasion, however, was 

 adverse to the new and comparatively unknown 

 " white faces", and the drubbing was repeated at 

 St. Louis. But these reverses only served to rouse 

 the ire and re-double the zeal of the new com- 

 mander of the Hereford camp. There would come 

 a day of reckoning! 



Gradually matters were shaping themselves for 

 a more successful presentation of Hereford claims. 

 Thomas Clark, then of Elyria, was already giving 

 promise of doing things worth while, and George 

 Morgan, another Herefordshire man, had come to 

 America. Both cooperated with Miller at Beech- 

 er. Mr. Clark subsequently became one of the 

 west's foremost breeders of Herefords, and Mr. 

 Morgan, as an agent, helped to write important 

 chapters in American Hereford history. 



Thomas Clark's First Steps. In 1869 a young 

 man named Thomas Clark, then in his twenty-sev- 

 enth year, rented an 80-acre farm near Elyria, 0., 

 at $5 per acre. Clark was born in Herefordshire, 

 near the Monmouth border, in 1842. His father 

 was a cattle-grower of local repute who used pure- 

 bred Hereford bulls but did not profess to be a 

 handler of the pedigreed strains. The son had 

 come out to the states in the spring of 1866 and 

 after working for a time on a farm near Pittsfield, 

 0., was employed by a Cleveland butcher having 

 a large city trade. Thrifty, and possessed of an 

 in-born faith in the " white faces" of his native 



