870 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



time about 250 calves, including Betty 2d, the cham- 

 pion female of 1901, that sold with calf at side for 

 $4,500. He was killed by a stroke of lightning in the 

 spring of 1903. But a few days previous Mr. Jesse 

 Adams of Moweaqua, 111., had closed a deal with 

 Mr. Harris for some ten head of Benjamin Wilton 

 heifers at an even $10,000. Mr. Harris is said to 

 have sold over $42,000 worth of calves sired by this 

 bull within the space of four years. 



Death of Dale. On Oct. 18, 1903, Dale, the cham- 

 pion show bull, died at Woodland Farm, the prop- 

 erty of his owner, Jesse Adams, Moweaqua, 111. 

 Mr. Adams had paid the great sum of $10,000 for the 

 bull in 1901. Dale was one of the many valuable 

 legacies left to the Hereford breed in America as a 

 result of the famous old-time importation of Earl 

 & Stuart. He carried a double cross of Garfield com- 

 bined with the blood of Peerless and Prince Edward, 

 and through his son Perfection passed on to the 

 Hereford breeders of the United States a factor of 

 demonstrated value. His dam, Rose Blossom, once 

 changed hands at $5,000. She lived to be fifteen 

 years old, was the mother of Columbia the dam of 

 Disturber, and died two months after the decease 

 of Dale, the property of Mr. G. M. Naber of Naber- 

 lea Farm, Wabash, Ind. 



The Sale Season of 1904. Breeders had now set- 

 tled down to an acceptance of a situation which did 

 not promise exceptional prices. There was grim 

 determination all along the line, however, to hold 

 on to that which was good and await the return of 



