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prizes proper consisted of the veteran importer and 

 breeder William Powell, W. A. Morgan of Kansas 

 and W. M. Atkinson of New Mexico. 



The show was even greater than that of the year 

 before, surpassing in quality anything yet seen in 

 the Hereford section of any American show. In 

 fact, the English Royal has probably seen no better 

 show cattle than the season of 1900 developed in the 

 middle west. 



In the bull classes there was a fine specimen of 

 latter-day British breeding presented by "Tom" 

 Sotham, who was a great student and close analyst of 

 Hereford pedigrees. His able and intelligent herd 

 manager, Edward J. Taylor,* had spent the summer 



*Edward J. Taylor was born at Stansbatch, Herefordshire, in 

 1866. His father, John Taylor, collected and sucessfully bred a 

 very useful herd of Herefords and one of the best flocks of Shrop- 

 shire sheep in the country, and as chairman of the Kington Stud 

 Co. did much to improve the class' of Shire horses in that section. 

 John Taylor had assisted in the building up of the famous herd 

 of S. Robinson of Lynhales and he personally selected all the 

 foundation females of the afterwards noted herd of R. Green of 

 The Whittern. While in quest of these, and also at home, young 

 Edward had the benefit of his father's advice, and sound judg- 

 ment, accompanying him to such noted sales as Chadnor Court, 

 The Leen, Stocktonbury, etc. In 1876 the father removed from 

 Stansbatch to Elsdon, a farm of some 400 acres adjoining Lyn- 

 hales and owned by Mr. Robinson, where he remained until fail- 

 ing health compelled him to relinquish business. 



"Ed" came to America in 1888, accompanying a small but 

 select importation of heifers for Merrill & Fifield of Bay City, 

 Mich., and remaining in charge of their herd between three and 

 four years. He afterwards became associated with the Rock- 

 land herd of H. H. Clough, Elyria, O. In the spring of 1893 he 

 was commissioned by Mr. Clough to return to England and im- 

 port a bull and two females to augment his already formidable 

 herd for the World's Fair at Chicago. Speaking of this event 

 Mr. Taylor says: 



"I shall never forget the beam on Mr. Clough's countenance 

 as he sized up Ancient Briton when I led him off the boat onto 

 the dock in New York. He said, 'Ed, he's all right!' It was a 

 proud day for both of us when he landed as champion at the 

 Columbian." 



After Mr. Clough's dispersion sale Taylor went to Troy, Pa., 

 and fitted a herd for George O. Holcomb, showing them success- 

 fully on the eastern circuit. Mr. Goodwin, of "The Breeder's Ga- 

 zette," commenting on the Hereford exhibit at the New York 

 State Fair, said, in part: 



"A few years ago we remarked in a report of this fair that 



