396 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



three-year-old grade in the show, and best three- 

 year-old of any sort in the building. The Gillett 

 and Moninger hosts carried away all the carlot 

 prizes, and to cap the climax McMullin was again, 

 after a long and memorable contest, declared the 

 best beast of any age or breed on exhibition. 



Various Types in Evidence. This was a week 

 of intense interest to all students of the industry. 

 The old regime was successfully fighting, but with 

 its back against the wall. The handiwork of the 

 professional fitter was in evidence in both Short- 

 horn and Hereford stalls, but there was as yet no 

 settled standard being followed. John Hope, an 

 artist in the line of bringing out purebred Short- 

 horns for exhibition, had come to the rescue of the 

 falling fortunes of the Bates dynasty by sending 

 over from Bow Park, Brantford, Ont., from the 

 herd of the Canada West Farm Stock Association,* 

 a beautiful big white yearling, weighing 1,620 

 pounds, which was afterwards to win fame greater 

 than any of his predecessors Clarence Kirkleving- 

 ton. J. H. Potts & Son, famed in every state fair 



*This once-famous nursery of Bates-bred Shorthorn cattle was 

 founded by Hon. George Brown, of the Toronto "Globe." John 

 Hope, the manager, was an experienced English cattleman, who 

 did much to uphold the fortunes of the Bates-bred cattle during 

 the evil days that fell upon them as a natural result of abuse 

 in methods of breeding met with by a once-noble strain of cat- 

 tle at the hands of numerous amateurs and speculators on both 

 sides of the Atlantic. Hope had no sympathy with those who 

 disregarded individual merit in the animal, or who dealt merely 

 in pedigrees. He was a tower of strength in a time of need, and 

 with this white bullock, by the great Duchess sire, 4th Duke 

 of Clarence, he made a record not equaled at the fat stock show 

 before or since. 



It was to Bow Park, which he had visited during his American 

 tour of 1874, that Mr. John Clay, now head of the live stock 

 commission house of Clay, Robinson & Co., came as manager 

 when he left his loved Tweed-side for America in 1879. 



