536 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



1 solid ' of all American Shorthorn breeding districts, 

 the Blue Grass country of Kentucky. 



"For weeks past the threatened invasion by the 

 * white faces' has been the one theme of conversation 

 among the Shorthorn people of the locality named, 

 and as the clans began to gather for the fray last 

 week the good citizens of Shelbyville suddenly found 

 their quiet little city transformed into a bustling 

 camp of warring factions with but one name upon 

 every lip: "The Herefords!' Verily the Shorthorn 

 citadel was shaken from center to circumference, 

 and as the long line of deep-fleshed wanderers from 

 Herefordshire wound its way through their gates, 

 with Fowler, Sir Bartle Frere, Bowdoin, Prince Ed- 

 ward, and Caractacus as their chiefs, those who had 

 been born and raised with the supremacy of the 'red, 

 white and roan, 7 undisputed and unchallenged were 

 treated to a sight such as the eyes of many who 

 gazed with eager interest had never before regaled 

 themselves. Hundreds of those who came to visit 

 the show had never seen a Hereford, and it is but 

 simple justice to the breed to state that some, at 

 least, who had apparently come to scoff remained 

 to admire; and while the visitors were unable to 

 snatch a victory from out the jaws of what they had 

 all along expected would prove a defeat, they feel 

 that a missionary work has been accomplished that 

 will some day return a reasonable profit. 



' i It goes without saying that the invading column 

 was a strong one, representing, as it did, the first- 

 class herds of Messrs. Adams Earl, of Lafayette, 

 Ind. ; Fowler & VanNatta, Fowler, Ind. ; C. M. Cul- 

 bertson and G. W. Henry, both of Chicago, 111.; 

 and, while not so large a combination as the memo- 

 rable white-faced array of 1882, and while by no 

 means including all the best show beasts of the 



