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of constitution and stood up nobly to the test im- 

 posed. He had put on flesh about as thickly as a 

 compactly fashioned bovine carcass ever carries, 

 and shared with the heifer Armour Eose the adora- 

 tion of the Hereford-worshipping multitudes that 

 thronged this sensational ringside during the most 

 memorable week of American Hereford history up 

 to that date.* 



Armour Eose 75086 was a very perfect yearling 

 heifer that had been given by Mr. 'Armour to the 

 promoters of the Kansas City Coliseum or Conven- 

 tion Hall, a large structure projected in the public 

 interest, to be raffled off for the benefit of the build- 

 ing fund. As the citizens were all enthusiastic over 

 the project, thousands of tickets were disposed of 



*The occasional references made in these pages to various 

 herdsmen prominently identified with Hereford breeding in the 

 west should include some mention of another man whom the 

 author has always held in high esteem. 



George Waters, one of the best of the old-time herdsmen, 

 has had a long and successful experience. He was born on Jan. 



4, 1850, at Barton-in-Fabis near Nottingham, England, in the vale 

 of the River Trent. This valley is noted for rich pastures that 

 have not known the plow for many generations. Shorthorn cat- 

 tle and Leicester sheep and their grades, and wonderful droves 

 of fat bullocks and fat sheep have roamed those pastures. Waters' 

 father was a butcher, and when George was ten years of age 

 rented a farm, carrying on the butchering trade as well. 



On Feb. 3, 1870, George left Liverpool for America on the S. 



5. Nestorian of the Allan Line, landing at Portland, Me., and pro- 

 ceeding direct to Montreal. Here he made a stay of one day and 

 night, taking while there a sleigh ride out to the Victoria Bridge 

 and crossing the St. Lawrence River where men were taking out 

 ice 3 feet in thickness. Some change that, thought the young 

 man, from the green pastures of the Midland counties of old Eng- 

 land! Leaving Montreal he went to Guelph. He walked out to 

 the F. W. Stone farm, Moreton Lodge. Henry Arkell, a native of 

 Gloustershire, England, was then foreman and manager. George 

 applied for work, and Arkell hired him for one month. When 

 part of the month had passed he was engaged for the year. He 

 worked here nearly four years. Waters has always regarded 

 Arkell as the best manager he ever met in charge of a pedigree 

 stock-breeding farm. 



From Stone's, George Waters went to Buffalo, N. Y., for one 

 season, but in the spring of 1875 returned to Canada to handle 

 John R. Craig's Shorthorns at Burnhamthrope, near Toronto. In 

 the fall of that year Craig made a public sale of Bates cattle in 

 Toronto the day following a notable Shorthorn convention, and 

 Waters led into the ring 38 head of cows, heifers, bulls and calves 



