544 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



either end, the keystone of the solid arch of bulls 

 ominously enough was seen to be a Shorthorn and 

 he the champion of his class. Sir Bartle Frere held 

 the right and the Garfield yearling from Shadeland 

 the left, with the Shorthorns massed from the cen- 

 tre to the right, while Bowdoin, Fowler and Carac- 

 tacus, and indeed the entire Hereford strength ( save 

 Bartle Frere) was from the start on the side to 

 which the verdict ultimately assigned them left. 

 As one scanned the field the one special impression 

 gathered was that the better quality and the deepest 

 flesh lay with the Herefords, the heaviest weights 

 and the finer style with their adversaries. The one 

 were of the low-down, thick-set, kindly feeding sort, 

 the other possessing the greater scale and range 

 with their flesh carried higher from the ground. 

 Col. Grundy's Eed Chief was shown with consum- 

 mate skill, and this in itself, in a region where style 

 and animation count so heavily as at Kentucky 

 shows, was half the battle. The level top and neat 

 well turned quarters of the red Bates-topped Phyllis, 

 coupled with airy style, proved irresistible, and as 

 he donned the blue the great crowd broke forth with 

 tumultuous applause. The nervous tension of weeks 

 found sudden relaxation. The strain was over. 

 Hannibal had been thundering at their gates and in 

 the first pitched battle was sent reeling back upon 

 his base in discouragement if not dismay. The 

 Hereford exhibitors had prided themselves upon 

 the fine quality of their bulls above almost all other 

 features of their exhibit, and believed their oppo- 

 nents to be weakest in their males, so that while 

 not specially surprised at the result they felt that 

 their severest attack had been successfully repelled. 

 "For best herd of 'thoroughbred' cattle, any 

 breed, for beef purposes, to consist of one bull and 



