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FIG. 9. YEARLING'S TEETH 

 AT 18 MONTHS. 



wish now to call your attention to the fact that 

 not onlv was the steer 'Champion of Iowa'" 

 entered at a fraudulent age, but that 1 have 

 ascertained that the steers 'Tom Brown' and 

 'Grinnell,' so called, and numbered in the cata- 

 logue published by your society 111 and 113, 

 were butchered by Messrs. Eastland & Duddles- 

 ton, of Chicago, and that the teeth of these 



two steers, which 

 are now in my pos- 

 session, show "Tom 

 Brown' to have 

 been at least five 

 years old, the steer 

 'Grinnell' to have 

 been at least four 

 years old, by the 

 usual standard au- 

 thorities, instead 

 of two and three 

 years old, as shown 

 in the catalogue, 

 and these ages may 

 be established by 

 comparison with 

 living animals of today. I also call your atten- 

 tion to the entries of Messrs. H. & I. Groff, of 

 Klinira, Can., for animals Nos. 15, 17, 18, as 902 

 days old, 1,265 and 1,305 days; the first entered 

 as two-year-old, the others as three-year-olds. 

 "These animals were slaughtered by Mr. 

 John Ford, and from him I purchased the 

 heads, from which I took the teeth which I 

 presented to you today. These teeth, by the 

 uMial standard authorities, would show them 

 to be from five^o six years old, and by compar- 

 ing them with living animals of today these 

 conclusions would be sustained. 



"Believing that your board, with the exhibits 

 you are making, should go forth to the world 

 with truthful results, and that it is your desire 

 to protect the exhibitors who comply honestly 

 with your rules, and that you will not seek to 

 avoid the responsibilities, by the technical form 

 in which the information may reach you, I 

 have appeared before you with the witnesses, 

 to-wit, the teeth of the bullocks. And I charge 

 these exhibitors, to-wit: Mr. I). M. Moninger 

 and Messrs. H. & I. Groff, with the entering 

 of the cattle under false and fraudulent ages, 

 for the purpose of deceiving the committee, the 

 public and to obtain a reward by misrepresenta- 

 tion, j. T. L. MILLER." 



The report of the committee to whom the 

 matter was referred placed themselves on record 

 as follows: 

 "To the State Board of Agriculture : 



"Your committee, to whom the communi- 



cation of Mr. T. L. Miller in regard to the 

 matter of determining the age of animals ex- 

 hibited at Fat Stock Show of 1882, and com- 

 plaining of the action of the president of this 

 board in a particular case involving that ques- 

 tion was referred, beg leave to say that, 

 primarily, Mr. Miller himself failed to do 

 what, by his own statement was clearly his duty, 

 in not bringing his complaint to the attention 

 of the board in a manner recognized by the 

 established rules of which he was undoubtedly 

 cognizant. Mr. Miller could not have been 

 ignorant of his own plain duty as an exhibitor, 

 and having failed to protest in any proper form 

 against the exhibition of any animal or animals 

 he mentions, the board has not, in his mere 

 verbal complaints, any ground to institute an 

 investigation, or to do any act which could be 

 made to imply a doubt as to the correctness of 

 the statement of any other exhibitor. In other 

 words, your committee believe that the rules 

 relating to this subject are clear and practical, 

 and that Mr. Miller perfectly understood what 

 his rights and duties were in the premises ; that 

 the president did exactly what the board had 

 a right to expect its executive officer to do, and 

 certainly gave not the slightest occasion for the 

 complaints made by Mr. Miller, and therefore 

 recommend that no further action of this board 

 in the premises is demanded. 



J. IRVING PEARCE, 

 JOHN VIRGIN, 

 JOHN P. REYNOLDS, 



Committee/' 



It can be seen from this that they cared 

 nothing for the facts in the case, but shielded 



FIG. 10. YEARLING'S TEETH AT 22 MONTHS. 



themselves behind a technicality, that a written 

 protest was not entered the day the verbal pro- 

 tests were made. We then wrote the following 

 on the subject, which will more fully explain 

 how much those in interest knew of the subject 



