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from it in your later days with the proud con- 

 viction that your efforts will result in adding 

 untold millions to the future stock interests of 

 the farmers of this country, hy introducing 

 prominently the pure blood of the Herefords, 

 to mingle with the hardy races of the plains. 

 Indirectly you are accomplishing another thing. 

 You are stimulating the breeders of other races 

 of cattle to strain every nerve to add still more 

 perfect points to their animals, as witness the 

 noble specimens that have been so unsuccessful 

 against you at this most important exhibition. 



"Mr. Miller, as the representative of the pro- 

 gressive agricultural press, which has so heart- 

 ily joined hands with the able, earnest and de- 

 voted members of the state Board of Agricul- 

 ture in furthering the live stock interests of 

 the country, I have the pleasure, through 

 them, to present to you the prize gold medal 

 of the ' Farmer's Review/ so justly won by that 

 meritorious young animal that represents in 

 his own body the success of a long line of care- 

 ful breeding in the old world, your own skill as 

 a feeder, and the adaptability of our climate 

 and productions to give to every domestic 

 animal the touch of perfection. 



"It is the hope of the donors that this beau- 

 tiful medal will add something to the satisfac- 

 tion that must result from your competition at 

 this show, and that those who come after you 

 will feel a blush of pride as they apply to you 

 the motto herein inscribed: 'The cultured 

 mind guides the skillful hand to success.' " 



Wo give the following extract from the 

 "American Stockman's" report of the 1880 Fat 

 Stock Show held at Chicago, to show how the 

 Herefords there exhibited appeared to the gen- 

 eral public : 



Xo\v for a fresh family, the Herefords. 

 Must we assign to them the premier place in 

 the hall? Yes, we must; there is no getting 

 away from it; year by year they creep in, and 

 year by year they become more deserving of 

 the premiership. Let us begin with "Alex," Mr. 

 T. L. Miller's three-year-old (and Mr. T. L. 

 Miller is the father of the Herefords in Ameri- 

 ca). Look at that charming countenance, and 

 that great, full, prominent eye, and there you 

 \vill observe what so delights the judge of the 

 tip-top grazier. The little fellow when he 

 moves actually groans under the load of prime 

 marbled beef. What a bosom. How he twists 

 and straddles those little timbers of his to carry 

 about that great carcass of 1,920 pounds of 

 porterhouse steaks. Gentlemen, there is no 

 offal you cannot find it, although you look for 

 it. Examine those crops and chine. Aren't they 

 wonderful? Touch that back rib and loin. When 



had you your hand on the like? Not for a long 

 time, as Saturday's judgment on the carcass 

 will prove. Perhaps he is a little narrow on 

 the quarters, but the rump steaks are there in 

 abundance, and ripe at that; his twist is deep, 

 and he carries his beef to his hamstrings, like a 

 Berkshire pig. Well done, "Alex." 



Mr. Miller is surely far seeing, for he called 

 his last two-year-old steer "Conqueror." Come 

 to the front, "Conqueror," although you are yet 

 in the meridian of your fame, and let me de- 

 scribe you to those who have only heard of you 

 but not seen you. Look what an attractive gait 

 he has, how beautifully he walks, how he im- 

 proves in everyone's estimation the longer he 

 is looked at; everyone can see that his very vic- 

 tory is a foregone conclusion, that he is the best 

 animal in the hall, and that his meat is worth 

 more than the champion Shorthorn winner by 

 at least two cents per pound. "Conqueror" is 

 thick and deep down to the ground. He is 

 smooth in the extreme; he is lengthy and yet 

 compact; he is fleshy and yet fat, and beef from 

 head to heel. What more is wanted? The re- 



T. J. CARWARDINE, 

 Late of Stocktonbury, Herefordshire. 



mainder of Mr. Miller's herd numbering nine 

 steers and one heifer in all, were an admirable 

 display, one rarely to be met with; as several 

 good judges remarked, the best lot of finished 

 cattle ever seen, shown by one man in America ; 

 all bred and fed at Highland Stock Farm, 

 property of T. L. Miller, Beecher, 111. fl[ 188) 



