572 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



by Elton 1st 11245. Mr. Earl had given the Elton 

 name at Shadeland to a line of bulls owning Sir 

 Eichard 2d as their sire, and Elena 10th had surely 

 inherited from "old Dick" some of his deep natural 

 flesh. Her ribs were beautifully sprung, and her 

 loin wide. The Anxiety heifer that had beaten her 

 before was second. Again, in the yearling heifers 

 the previous judgment was disapproved. May 

 Fowler, although set below Mabel at Des Moines, 



laughter, and in recalling- it Mr. Gosling remarked to the author 

 of this volume. "Such bulls were Don Carlos and Beau Brummel." 

 Mr. Gosling always insisted that these and other Anxiety bulls 

 strengthened the Hereford type in respect to the deep back- 

 thigh, "a formation," according 'to his view, "which insures the 

 legs getting into the beef quick." This merit, Mr. Gosling in- 

 sists, was lacking in many of the Herefords prior to the exten- 

 sive use of the Anxiety blood throughout the west. He urges 

 at all time that what is needed is an increased supply of inner 

 muscle or flesh, as contrasted with carcasses carrying too much 

 outside fat. 



One of the most notable tributes ever paid to the subject 

 of this note was that written some years ago by Mr. Cecil 

 Palmer, at one time a leading live-stock artist, making a special 

 study of Hereford form and character. Mr. Palmer said; 



"Mr. Gosling's relation to the Hereford cause has been that 

 of an expounder and defender of 'the faith.' Born in Stafford- 

 shire, England, the son of an artist, he brought to his mission 

 the eye of an artist, the inclination and capacity of mind for 

 thorough investigation and complete knowledge of his subject 

 in all its relations, the boundless and untiring enthusiasm of a 

 crusader of old and the gift of speech. He has been an advance 

 agent of the Hereford man's present prosperity. Like another 

 John of old, he has been a voice crying in the wilderness, 'prepare 

 ye the way'. He has not only been priest and prophet of the 

 Hereford religion, but he has been an educator as well, and has 

 helped to improve the Hereford by helping to educate the 

 breeder. 



"He could see the faults of the Hereford, if he had any, and 

 he always admitted them. He could see the faults of the 

 Shorthorn or Polled Angus with certainty, and he sometimes 

 mentioned them too. Mr. Gosling is a judge of the beef animal, 

 whether on the farm or in the showring. He knows when to 

 feed and how to feed and what to feed and how much and he 

 has always been an advocate of the liberal and discriminating 

 use of the knife. . He knows how to breed, feed and butcher; 

 and also how to cook a beef steak or roast, and when it is on 

 the table he is an epicure. 



"Years ago he advocated the idea that two years was long 

 enough for a steer to live. Years ago he advised in a letter 

 addressed to the Illinois State Board of Agriculture the aban- 

 donment in the Fat Stock Show of all classes over two years, 

 and the following year, in proof of his theory, fed and exhibited 

 at that show the two-year-old crossbred steer Plush that won 

 not only the two-year-old prize, but sweepstakes on the block." 



