394 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



sions had been made to the ranks of the fighting 

 friends of the Herefords. 



Adams Earl and his able and aggressive son-in- 

 law, the late lamented Charles B. Stuart, of Lafay- 

 ette, Ind., Gudgell & Simpson of Independence, Mo., 

 Hon. M. H. Cochrane of Canada, Benjamin Her- 

 shey, a millionaire lumberman of Muscatine, la., 

 Moses Fowler, a banker of Lafayette, Ind., and 

 hard-headed practical William S. VanNatta, to- 

 gether with C. M. Culbertson and others, aided and 

 abetted by old-countrymen like "Tom" Clark, 

 George Morgan, William Powell, "Tom" Ponting, 

 John Gosling and others, were all attracted by the 

 exciting and revolutionary proceedings now every- 

 where in evidence at the stock yards, on "the 

 plains," in cornbelt feedlots and at the fat stock 

 shows. They entered into the spirit of the contest, 

 some with the zeal of new converts, others backed by 

 ample capital and favored by every natural condi- 

 tion. Best of all, this took place at the psycholog- 

 ical moment when old Horace, Lord Wilton and 

 The Grove 3d were filling the Herefordshire pas- 

 tures and the Royal Show Yard of England with 

 the most extraordinary specimens of white-faced 

 beauty the breed had ever produced. So it hap- 

 pened that by the time the show of 1882 came 

 around, new importations, new faces and new en- 

 thusiasm had wrought marked transformation. 



"Last of the Mohicans." The year 1882 wrote 

 "finis" upon the scroll whereon are inscribed 

 the championships won by the old-style cattle; it 



