414 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



horn class, Brant Chief. Mr. H. H. dough's Here- 

 ford Daniel won "The Breeder's Gazette" Chal- 

 lenge Shield, and Overton Lea's Sussex Rosewood- 

 conditioned by one of America's cleverest feeders, 

 John Letham took the carcass championship, and 

 a wonderfully fine body of beef it was.* 



A Melting Pot. - - Having now sketched the 

 revolutionary character of this great educational 

 institution to the date when it settled down into a 

 good-natured contest between the types that still 

 hold the center of the stage, we must turn at this 

 point our special business being with the Here- 

 fords to details of important importations and to 

 the breeding, showyard and salering operations of 

 those who first distributed Hereford cattle widely 

 throughout the United States. Before taking up 

 this, however, we wish to emphasize the fact that a 

 realizing sense of a very important truth had 

 dawned upon the cattle-growers of the central west 

 as a result of this remarkable series of shows. 



Shorthorn breeders were no longer supercilious 

 in their consideration of the claims of the Hereford. 

 Where they had once scoffed they now conceded. On 

 their part the Hereford men saw in Eoan Boy, Ben- 

 ton's Champion aiid other prize-winners of mixed 

 derivation ample proof of great results to be at- 



*This first blood for the Scotch polls roused the Aberdeen- 

 Angus contingent to a high pitch. The brass band at the ring- 

 side started "Yankee Doodle" in honor of the victory of "The 

 States" over Canada, but when somebody tipped it off that the 

 champion black was "all Scotch" and that Hope's "runner up" 

 was got by a Scotch-bred bull, a rattling medley of Scotch na- 

 tional airs followed, including everything from "Dumbarton 

 Drums" to "Annie Laurie." We do not seem to have such stirring 

 scenes in "these degenerate days." 



