956 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



competitions for all beef breeds, and the Harris 

 champion Repeater 7th gained this honor for the 

 breed.* The Harris heifer Miss Eepeater llth was 

 second best female in this competition, while the 

 calf herd from Mississippi won second in competi- 

 tion for such groups. The participation in the west- 

 ern campaign of the Davis cattle from Mississippi 

 was among the notable features of the season, not 

 only an evidence of the security of the foothold 

 which the breed has obtained in the south, but an 

 illustration of enterprise rarely equaled in our show- 

 yard annals. 



Pushing resolutely the widely-planned campaign, 

 the Harris and Curtice herds from Missouri, the 

 Berry, Andrews and Tow herds from Iowa and the 

 Green herd from Nebraska joined with five South 

 Dakota herds in a sensational exhibit at Huron, the 

 capital city. The Davis herd meanwhile had moved 

 its colors to Topeka, along with the cattle of Biehl 

 & Sidwell of Missouri and Thompson Bros, and 0. E. 

 Green of Nebraska, thus affording full classes at 

 the Kansas fair. The exhibit carried to the western 

 fairs brimmed with white-faced ripeness and quality. 



"The Messrs. Harris are certainly doing their full share 

 towards sustaining the cause of the Hereford in the United States 

 at the present time. No other evidence is required to demonstrate 

 the great enterprise they are displaying, and the liberal expenditure 

 they are making in connection with the up-keep of their estab- 

 lishment, than the fact that there is at the present writing in 

 service upon their Model Farms Repeater 289598 (an admirable 

 photograph of which appears elsewhere in this volume), Gay Lad 6th, 

 old Beau Donald 5th, Prince Perfection and Repeater 7th. Beau Donald 

 5th is still in service in his sixteenth, year, and has sired cattle that 

 have been sold by the Messrs. Harris for more than $100,000. 



