1056 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



This was of course a very welcome surprise to the 

 owner. From that time there was never much ques- 

 tion as to his destiny. 



At the fall fairs of 1904, Perfection Fairfax was 

 probably the heaviest calf in his class. At the In- 

 ternational his official weight was 1,220 pounds. 

 This is certainly remarkable in view of the late 

 start he had. At the Kansas City Royal of 1905, 

 just as Mr. Huxley was leading Perfection Fair- 

 fax out of the ring with the purple badge that meant 

 the junior championship of the show, friend Fur- 

 bush came up and congratulated him upon the win- 

 ning, and his surprise can be better imagined than 

 described when told that this was the calf that he 

 had said was too mean to have around his New 

 England farm. Mr. Huxley was offered $2,000 for 

 Perfection Fairfax as a calf and $3,000 as a year- 

 ling; he declined both propositions. Out of a pos- 

 sible thirty-one first prizes shown for as a calf, year- 

 ling and aged bull he won thirty firsts and one 

 second. As a two-year-old he was not shown. Mr. 

 Huxley having disposed of Beau Donald 33d, his 

 chief stock bull at that time, could not spare Per- 

 fection Fairfax from the breeding herd. Beau 

 Donald 33d, it will be remembered, was also a most 

 successful stock bull, the progenitor of the Lady 

 Fairfax line, two members of which, Lady Fairfax 

 4th and Lady Fairfax 9th, made enviable records. 



The later career of Perfection Fairfax is too 

 familiar to call for extended comment in this con- 

 nection. Messrs. Harris, Curtice and McCray were 



