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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



and although only kept in good store condition 

 they are as good and well-bred as any herd. 

 The good example he has always set in showing 

 his cattle in natural shape is an excellent one, 

 and the judges had the practical soundness to 

 see their situation against pampered ones, hence 

 his success in the show ring. I hope we are fast 

 coming to this legitimate state of things; the 

 country would profit much by it. (fl 105) 



Mr. Corning showed a fat heifer at the New 

 York State Fair last fall against a dozen Short- 

 horns. She took first prize and was considered 

 by all who saw her a perfect beauty. At Christ- 

 mas she was killed, and some weeks since an 



appropriate poem 

 was written of her 



/ by a butcher boy 



who admired her 

 attractive appear- 

 ance ; the poem was 

 copied into the 

 "Drover's Jour- 

 nal." The butcher 

 who killed her, Mr. 

 J. Battersby, told 

 me that she was the 

 best carcass of beef 

 he ever cut up ; not 

 only was she of 

 most excellent 

 quality, but steaks 

 cut from her neck 

 vein were beautifully marbled and fit to 

 serve his first-class customers better even than 

 the choice steak of many other animals. 



How many times such truths have been told 

 to me by other butchers, under similar circum- 

 stances, and of equal standing as Mr. Batters- 

 by, whose father was one of the prominent 

 butchers in Albany for the past forty years. 

 No man killed better meat, for which he had 

 a high reputation, and his customers were of the 

 highest class. His son is following his good 

 example, and I value his testimony, so fully 

 corroborating that of many others of a like prac- 

 tical soundness. 



PART IX. 



Before going further into the Herefords, I 

 must give you an additional insight into what 

 I had to go through with in the Bates mania, 

 of which, as I have told you before, Lewis F. Al- 

 len, Ambrose Stevens (who were called twin 

 brothers) and John R. Page were the leading 

 proselytes to that injurious imposition that so 

 much injured the Shorthorn cause. I pro- 



A. H. BULLIS, 

 WINNEBAGO CITY, MINN. 



nounced this trio "the three flunkies" to induce 

 men of means to join the hue and cry of fancy' 

 and fashion that had taken possession of all 

 who belonged to it. 



The first wrote a book on the different breeds 

 of cattle, to extol the Shorthorns, and did not 

 only overstretch his ability in the task, but 

 made gross misrepresentations, one must sup- 

 pose purposely, to mislead. All who had pa- 

 tience to get at all interested in the work, and 

 read his history of the Shorthorns and Here- 

 fords, could see his aim to effect high favor to 

 the former, and create a panic against the lat- 

 ter, both of which he grossly and, I think, in- 

 tentionally, misrepresented. The case was so 

 plain to every unprejudiced reader that my at- 

 tention was called to it by several gentlemen, 

 among whom were some of the best Shorthorn 

 breeders. I had an intimate knowledge of the 

 writer's character, so I did not look into his 

 book until my friends strongly advised me, and 

 then the comparison between these two valuable 

 breeds was all I had the patience to investi- 

 gate. Fancy and fashion are capable of leading 

 even the best men astray, and Lewis F. Allen 

 did everything he was capable of doing to pro- 

 mote both of these delusions. 



The second man was an adventurer precisely 

 of the same calibre as the first ; they were called 

 "twin brothers," as they constantly coupled 

 their visionary brains together, to support the 

 fancy and fashion adopted to boost the "Bates 

 mania." This was their hobby and they ex- 

 pected to reap their reward from the profit 

 made by the Bates clan, but, like all such the- 

 ories and profitless scheming, the bubble burst, 

 which all who read can prove. He was the man 

 who rewrote the fictitious Shorthorn compila- 

 tion called history, to defeat the facts published 

 by Rev. Henry Berry, but his misrepresenta- 

 tions soon found him out, and the Rev. Henry 

 Berry's unpleasant truths now stand as firmly 

 as if this misjudged prodigal had not so 

 thoughtlessly interfered. 



Still further this notorious Batesite brought 

 out from the Bates herd of such notoriety the 

 bull Duke of Cambridge. Stevens, after a long 

 and familiar stay at Mr. Bates' house, had per- 

 suaded Bates that he (Stevens) was the great 

 '"I am" of the Shorthorn fraternity; thus pre- 

 possessed, Bates presented him with this "Noble 

 Duke of Cambridge" as a memento of his kind- 

 ness in so strongly supporting the Bates cause 

 in America, the urgency for continuance of 

 which Bates had strenuously instilled into the 

 anxious mind of this supposed exalted breeder. 



The bull arrived here with others from an- 

 other breeder, of which I shall hereafter give a 



