952 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Beau Perfection 24th Brings $12,000. In the 

 month of May, 1914, Mr. W. H. Curtice sold 20 head 

 at private treaty to Col. E. H. Taylor, Frankfort, 

 Ky., at the round price of $20,000. The deal in- 

 cluded the sensational two-year-old bull Beau Per- 

 fection 24th, at $12,000, the highest figure as yet 

 reached for a Hereford on either side of the Atlantic. 

 The 19 females were taken at $400 per head. In 

 the course of a letter announcing this remarkable 

 transaction Mr. Curtice says: "This sale makes a 

 total of 79 head of cattle disposed of since the 

 Kansas City Show last year for a total of $41,135 

 cash without discount, freights or any extra sale 

 expense whatsoever. ' ' Commenting further Mr. 

 Curtice says: "I do not want the impression to go 

 out that I am out of the Hereford breeding business 

 as I still have 100 head of cattle, and expect to 



to Missouri when he went to Mr. Brock. Speaking of the record 

 made by the get of this bull, Mr. Letham says: 



"He was the most consistent sire I ever handled. His get 

 were not all show cattle, but everyone was a Disturber perfectly 

 marked, with good rich mossy coats and thick-fleshed always. In 

 May, 1911, we sold Mr. Tow the entire Lake Geneva herd, includ- 

 ing Disturber, Distributor and Standard. The old bull was then 

 in his tenth year, but even so he carried more top meat than 

 most show bulls and I still valued him at $3,500, a price which. I 

 had refused for him when he was three years old, at which time 

 I had dared to ask $5,000. He made his best success on Kansas 

 Lad Jr. and Prime Lad cows, of which we had only six. Without 

 boasting, I believe that the young Disturber herd which Mr. Tow 

 is showing this fall, thus far undefeated, and containing among 

 the last of the old bull's get the junior champion bull Disturber 

 Jr. and Disturber Lassie 12th, the junior champion female, and 

 three others that are very uniform, is in my opinion the best I 

 have ever seen. This I mean as an absolutely cold-blooded 

 verdict. Disturber was grandsire to all the Repeaters as well as 

 to Point Comfort 14th, the phenomenal Davis bull, Letham Fair- 

 fax in Mr. McCray's herd, and a lot of others on the road. 



"Certainly the old bull's get are making much Hereford his- 

 tory, and I hope the old fellow is knee-deep in bluegrass and 

 clover, if there are green pastures on the other shore, after 

 twelve years of the best we could give him here. As a two-year- 

 old at Chicago he weighed in at 2,140 pounds, and for seven 

 straight years in breeding shape he stood between 2,250 and 2,300 

 pounds on grass alone." 



