1060 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



we never intended to show him. But then Mr. Mc- 

 Cray bought out Mr. Huxley, and decided to show 

 him instead of Prime Lad 16th, though he was never 

 fed to be shown that fall. It is surprising to see him 

 so fresh at eleven years old. And I doubt very much 

 if any of the bulls which showed with him nine or 

 ten years ago can come up and beat him now in the 

 showring. I do know that they have a hard time to 

 beat his get, although it was this same Perfection 

 Fairfax which was 'a show bull, but would never 

 make much of a breeder/ " 



The Dam of Dale. Too late for incorporation in 

 our text at the proper point we received the follow- 

 ing interesting recital from Clem Graves, the breed- 

 er of Dale, as to the mother of that famous bull : 



"In appearance Eose Blossom was like the Gar- 

 fields. Her color a rich red, neither light nor dark, 

 her form thick-fleshed, evenly balanced and set on 

 short legs, her face broad, with full eyes and the 

 short 'Berkshire' nose, the identifying feature of 

 the Garfields. She was sold to Mr. Harness, Gal- 

 veston, Ind., when a yearling and her calves, Little 

 Phil and Hopeful, were dropped at his farm. I pur- 

 chased her in the spring of 1892, paying $75 for her. 

 This was a time when the breeders were overstocked 

 on account of the depression in the cattle trade in 

 1891 and 1892, when I saw a 1,200-pound grade 

 Shorthorn cow sell for $14 and good yearlings sell 

 for $8 a head. 



"I showed Rose Blossom in 1896 at Toledo, and 

 the leading county fairs in Ohio and Indiana, At 

 that time many of the fairs did not classify the beef 

 breeds, Shorthorns, Angus and Herefords all show- 

 ing together. She was defeated but one time and 

 then by a Hereford cow of great scale and even 

 finish. Vivien, the first calf Rose Blossom brought 



