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me, I sold when six years old for $500. This cow 

 was the mother of two heifers. One was Armel, 

 bought by A. P. Nave for $220 in my first public 

 sale at the Palmer House Stables at Chicago in 1897. 

 He sold her a short time afterward to K. B. Armour 

 for $1,000 and she was one of the attractive mem- 

 bers of that celebrated herd. The other heifer, Viola 

 by Columbus, I listed in the sale at the Kansas City 

 Royal in 1899, where she was purchased by Col. 

 Slaughter and Thomas Mortimer for $1,250, selling 

 next to Armour Eose, which brought the highest 

 price in that very spirited sale. 



i i You will note from the full list of the progeny of 

 this famous cow, herewith appended, that three years 

 elapse between the birth of Vivien and Dale. This 

 is a long period for a young cow to pass not breed- 

 ing and I was almost at the point of disposing of 

 her, all in ignorance that the story of Dale, Perfec- 

 tion, Perfection Fairfax, on down to Joan Fairfax, 

 was already written ' among the things that are and 

 the things that shall be hereafter/ 



"The story of Dale is now a matter of common 

 knowledge. There are two points in his showyard 

 career that I wish to emphasize : in 1897 he was the 

 first Hereford to win the grand championship, all 

 breeds competing, at the Ohio and Indiana state 

 fairs; and after five years of showing when he was 

 matched against Perfection, Christopher, Dandy Bex 

 and many other famous bulls he won -the purple rib- 

 bon in his final appearance in the showring at the 

 International in 1901. Dale rests in the burying 

 ground of the little Christian church on Jesse Adams ' 

 farm, his grave cared for by Amy Adams. 



"Mr. Adams purchased Columbia from me for 

 $1,100 and Columbia 2d for $1,325 in a breeders' sale 

 in Kansas City in January, 1901. He bred Columbia 



