398 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



"hulk" division by sending forward a pair of twin 

 Shorthorns that together marked up 5,250 pounds. 



Imported Hereford Steers. Mr. Miller now had 

 all the motive power needed behind the Here- 

 ford propaganda. The new recruits were buying 

 top cattle freely in Herefordshire for importation, 

 and while gathering breeding stock did not forget 

 the fat stock show. Senator Cochrane of Hillhurst 

 brought out from England the purebred three-year- 

 old steer Sir Richard (weight 1,765 pounds), and 

 Earl & Stuart imported an extraordinary two-year- 

 old which they named Wabash. "Tom" Clark had 

 bought him for Mr. Earl while in England selecting 

 the great Shadeland importation of breeding stock 

 in the fall of 1881. He found the bullock in offer 

 at an auction sale held in the county of Shropshire 

 (Salop).* The steer was put into quarantine at 

 Portland, Me., at a weight of about 1,250 pounds, 

 and in the hands of Harry Loveland made a phe- 

 nomenal gain, going into the show in the fall at a 

 weight of 1,950 pounds. Mr. Clark says that he was 

 one of the most wonderful "doers" he has ever 

 known. His broad ribs and great depth of flesh in 

 the most valuable parts won for his breed the two- 

 year-old championship of the show. 



Sir Richard was sent into the block test and 



*John H. Yeomans was with Mr. Clark upon this occasion, and 

 together they went over the steers to be sold. Mr. Yeomans ad- 

 vised the purchase of a big- one, but Clark's fancy was caught 

 by a younger steer, which he bought. A well known exhibitor 

 at Smithfield paid 55 guineas for the big steer that Yeomans 

 liked, and after the sale asked Clark, who was unknown to him, 

 what he expected to do with the youngster he had bought. 

 "Take him to America," was Clark's reply. "Well," rejoined the 

 other, "I'm glad of it. He'll make some one trouble." 



