1052 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



mellow-hided, short-legged calf. Shand, my old 

 Scotch friend, when showing him to any one, always 

 caught hold of his hide to reveal the looseness of 

 it. I can remember seeing him first on a visit to 

 Independence from the Greenwood Farm in the fall 

 of 1893, when he was still nursing his dam. He 

 was weaned when about seven months old. The 

 following summer he was with a bunch of bulls 

 Mr. Simpson used his knife upon, passing by Beau 

 Donald. 



"The bull landed at Shelbyville the week of the 

 fair there. Mr. Curtice started to take him home, 

 but being advised by some of his friends to show 

 him had his old darkie, Joe, take him to the fair 

 grounds, where he received the blue ribbon next 

 day and sweepstakes over all breeds, although some 

 of the Shorthorn men told Mr. Curtice he was no 

 breeding bull, but simply a mess of beef. These 

 same Shorthorn men say today, however, that he 

 was one of the greatest breeding bulls that ever 

 came into Kentucky. The following year Mr. Curtice 

 showed him at Lexington, Ky., Shelbyville, Ky., Co- 

 lumbus, 0., and Wheeling, W. Va., winning first 

 place with him at the places named. In 1899 he 

 showed him on the same circuit with about the 

 same results. He then took him the same fall to the 

 Kansas City show and sale with a bunch of his 

 calves, which averaged $629 a head, and the follow- 

 ing year did about the same, always bringing in a 

 ribbon from the big shows with the old bull. After 

 that Mr. Curtice decided to keep him at home and 

 show his get. 



"Beau Donald was never used very hard, having 

 about forty cows a season. He always ran in the 

 pasture with the younger bulls of which he was 

 king. This reminds me of an anecdote of the old 

 bull. On bringing him home his son, Prince Rupert 



