902 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



tion, then in his tenth year, along with 26 of the 

 best Hoxie cows and heifers. The bull had been 

 successfully shown from calfhood and when let down 

 after his career was ended retained his smoothness 

 of flesh in remarkable fashion. The results of his 

 use upon the Beau Donald herd appear in recent 

 showyard history. 



A Famous Heifer Class. The exhibits of Here- 

 fords at both Kansas City and Chicago in the fall of 

 1908 were altogether remarkable, contrasting 

 strangely with the profound depression that had 

 been experienced by the trade during the year. It 

 afforded ample evidence, however, of the fact that 

 the fortunes of the breed were still in the hands of 

 men who believed in the future of the ' ' white faces. ' ' 

 The quality of the exhibits this year was indeed 

 superb, a fine illustration of this fact being the 

 senior heifer calf class at Kansas City, where there 

 were twenty-eight entries, every one of real show- 

 yard character. The society distributed ten extra 

 prizes in addition to the eight regular ones, and by 

 way of good measure added a reserve prize. The 

 winner of the lowest place had been a second-prize 

 calf at a strong state fair that year. It was, as a 

 matter of fact, a real record-breaking display of 

 Hereford excellence a sensational demonstration of 

 the continued success of American breeders in de- 

 veloping cattle of the very highest type and all the 

 more impressive because brought forward at a time 

 when the immediate financial rewards of pedigree 

 breeding were, to say the least, unsatisfactory. 



