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capable hands Anxiety after his arrival at Hereford 

 Park was carried along famously for the autumn 

 shows. He was the sensation of that period. Like 

 Imperial Caesar of old, he came,. he was seen, and 

 he conquered. All hats were off to the smoothest 

 thick-fleshed bull of any breed this country had up 

 to that date seen. On the show circuits of 1879 and 

 1880 he met no defeats. His winnings in 1879 were: 

 first at Lafayette, first in class and champion at the 

 Illinois State Fair, and first at St. Louis. In 1880: 

 first and champion Hereford bull at the Illinois 

 State Fair and at head of first prize herd, first at 

 Minneapolis, first at the Wisconsin State Fair, first 

 and head of the first prize Hereford herd at St. 

 Louis. Col. William S. King, the famous old-time 

 Shorthorn showman, was a great admirer of the 

 bull, and good-humoredly twitted the Hereford con- 

 tingent by assuring them that Anxiety could not be 

 a purely bred Hereford, saying: " Those brown 

 spots around his eyes and those great level quarters 

 certainly show a Shorthorn cross." This of course 

 was not taken seriously, but it illustrates the point 

 that a new and improved type of the Hereford had 

 now to be reckoned with by advocates of the Short- 

 horns. 



Mr. Culbertson believed that he had the best bull 

 of that day in North America, He had now given 

 the public a chance to see what a really high-class 

 Hereford was like and so resolved to retire him at 

 once from the showyard and to put him in condition 

 for active service. His haste in this regard how- 



