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DALE 66481 



Up in north central Indiana is a little 

 village by the name of Bunker Hill. In 

 the eyes of the world at large it has little 

 of interest. In the minds of Hereford 

 breeders it possesses special importance 

 from the fact that here was dropped, on 

 Sept. 15, 1895, on the farm of Clem 

 Graves, the calf Dale 66481, an animal 

 that later was destined to become known 

 as one of the remarkable individuals of 

 the breed. 



Dale was sired by Columbus 51875, a 

 son of Earl of Shadeland 41st 33378, while, 

 the latter was by the great Garfield 7015 

 (69t5), the champion at the Royal Agri- 

 cultural society show of 1882. Lord Wil- 

 ton blood is not lacking in the pediigree 

 on the sire's side, with also Horace and 

 Anxiety relationship present. Pet 36054, 

 the dam of Columbus, was out of Jessie 

 4th, a daughter of Anxiety 3d. Colum- 

 bus proved to be a great sire, which this 

 breeding sufficiently accounts for. 



The dam of Dale was Rose Blossom 

 39225, and she was sired by Peerless Wil- 

 ton 12774, also a son of Garfleld, and the 

 Lord Wilton cow Peerless 10902. Peer- 

 less Wilton has sired some notable cows, 

 among which Jessamine will always be 

 one of the great show cows of the breed. 

 Peerless Wilton and his daughter Jessa- 

 mine were both bred by Thomas Clark of 

 Beecher, 111., who was also the breeder 

 of Pet 36054. 



A thoughtful study of the ancestry of 

 Dale shows him to have been bred in 

 the purple, with numerous distinguished 

 breeding and show animals in both 

 branches of the family. In attaining em- 

 inence in the show ring and as a sire, he 

 but came into his rightful possession as 

 a result of that most potent law of in- 

 heritance, that "like produces like " 



The career of Dale in the show ring 

 is one of the most remarkable" experi- 

 ences in American Hereford history, and 

 it is safe to say that it is without a 

 parallel. In 1896 he was first in his class 

 at the Ohio and Michigan state fairs, 

 and also at county fairs held at Marion, 

 Terre Haute and Portland, Ind., and at 

 Celina, Ohio. In 1897 Dale really began 

 to attract serious attention. This sea- 



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