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cross. Prettyface, like her sire, had swept the show- 

 yards of England in 1881 before coming here, and I 

 exhibited her but one season. She gave me eleven 

 calves in ten years (no twins) that were scattered 

 all over the west and in South America." 



In this connection it may be said that Mr. Cul- 

 bertson probably induced more men of large means 

 to engage in the breeding of Herefords than any 

 other one man ever identified with them in this 

 country.* Mr. Parmelee was one of these. At the 

 time he bought Anxiety 4th 2947 he gave Culbert- 

 son $1,000 each for four of his precious Anxiety 

 heifers the famous quartette, Helena 2d 2941, 

 Helena 3d 2942, Helena 4th 2943, and Helena 5th 

 2936, all winners on the big circuit of 1881, and the 

 second one named a daughter of the great Sir Kich- 

 ard 2d cow Anguilla 1522, afterwards sold to Earl 

 & Stuart and possibly tha best model of a breeding 

 matron ever seen in the Shadeland pastures, which 

 is saying much. 



Anxieties 4th and 5th. The Parmelee bull had 

 been the first prize calf of 1881 at Chicago and at 

 the Illinois State Fair, and second at Minneapolis 

 and St. Louis. Another valuable son was Anxiety 

 5th 2948, that divided the honors with the calf just 

 mentioned on the same circuit, standing second at 

 Chicago and the Illinois Stafe Fair, and first at Min- 

 neapolis and St. Louis. He was out of the imported 



*Another striking- instance of this was the case of the late 

 Philip D. Armour, who bought a grand bunch of Mr. Culbertson's 

 best-bred cows and presented them to his son P. D. Armour, Jr., 

 at whose death they went into the appreciative hands of the 

 late Kirk B. Armour of Kansas City and constituted the founda- 

 tion of the fine herd maintained under William Cummings' man- 

 agement at Excelsior Springs. 



