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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



before and during the continuance of the Fat 



Stock Show: 



"Editor 'Breeders' Journal': 



"My relation to this interest is well 

 known, but in this article I propose to 

 confine myself clearly and closely to the 

 Fat Stock Show of 1882. There has 

 been, through the live stock journals, in 

 the interest of the Shorthorns, a great blowing 

 of trumpets and a heralding as to what that 

 interest was to do at the coming show. On the 

 13th of November exhibitors commenced com- 

 ing in with their stock, and between that and 



the 16th items of in- 

 terest in relation to 

 the entries were gen- 

 erally known. When 

 I came into the exhi- 

 bition building on 

 Thursday morning, 

 the 16th, I was in- 

 formed that large 

 numbers of the 

 Shorthorns were 

 entered under their 

 actual ages. Ascer- 

 taining in a few in- 

 stances by examina- 

 tion that these re- 

 ports were true, I 

 called upon President 

 Scott and found him presiding at a meeting of 

 the State Board of Agriculture. He met me in 

 the ante-room (ft 202) and I advised him that, 

 from the best information that I could get, 

 there were a great many cattle in the show 

 older than the entries would indicate. I asked 

 him to bring the matter before the board and 

 have them take the initiatory steps to ascertain 

 the truth of these reports. He said to me that 

 the proper way to get it before the board was by 

 protest. I replied that it was not proper to put 

 that responsibility upon the exhibitors, and of- 

 fered to place the animals I had on exhibition 

 under any test that the board might see fit to 

 make, and put myself and herd under any ex- 

 amination that they might direct. Mr. Scott, 

 however, called my attention to this section: 

 'In case of protest, notice must be given to the 

 superintendent >of the department before or 

 during the examination of the animal or article 

 protested, and a written statement setting forth 

 the reasons for protesting, verified by affidavit, 

 must be filed with the secretary on the day that 

 the notice is given/ 



"After leaving Mr. Scott I met Mr. J. H. 

 Sanders of the 'Breeders' Gazette/ and called 

 his attention to the fact that entries of animals 



FIG. 11. TEETH AT 24 

 MONTHS. 



were made under their actual ages, and said 

 to him that I had just come from Mr. Scott, 

 to whom I had given notice of the fact, and 

 asked him (Sanders) to use his influence to 

 see that examinations were made to see if such 

 fraud existed, and if so to see that it was ex- 

 posed, to which proposition he gave his assent, 

 and said that he would do all that he could in 

 the matter. Nothing was done by the board. 

 Mr. Sanders at an early day became the 

 medium through which a cane was presented 

 to Messrs. D. M. Moninger and J. D. Gillette, 

 Shorthorn exhibitors at this show. 



"I had determined two years ago that this 

 matter of entering animals under their ages 

 should be exposed. A year ago my health was 

 such that I was not able to attend the exhibi- 

 tion, but of the animals that were slaughtered 

 that year the mouths were all preserved and 

 properly labeled and given to the secretary of 

 the board, by him taken to Springfield. These 

 showed that the Shorthorns were of a greater 

 age than the Herefords. The secretary says 

 that he sent them to his house to be boiled for 

 the purpose of taking the flesh from the bones 

 and thus putting them in a shape for preserva- 

 tion. This process destroyed them and their 

 identity. I have only to say in reference to it 

 that this being the true version of their de- 

 struction it showed a want of judgment. I had 

 in the course of the last year given notice that 

 I should make special efforts to expose any 

 fraud that should be made by entering cattle 

 under their actual ages. Wishing, however, to 

 take no advantage of the board, or of the ex- 

 hibitors, I thus gave President Scott notice of 

 the fact that fraudulent entries were made, and 

 called the attention of Mr. Sanders, the editor 

 of the leading Shorthorn organ, to the fact, 

 and there rested the case until the last day but 

 one of the show, when I called President Scott's 

 attention again to the fact that Mr. D. M. 

 Moninger, of Galvin, Iowa, had a steer entered 

 as a yearling, called the 'Champion of Iowa/ 

 and numbered in their catalogue as 112, which 

 was a long three-year-old or over, and cited to 

 him the fact, that for the age, he should have 

 but two permanent teeth, while in fact he had 

 six; and that, besides this error, there were 

 others that were much older than they were 

 entered for. He again called my attention to 

 the fact that it was a duty of the exhibitor dis- 

 satisfied to come before the board with a pro- 

 test, as specified in Section 5, (fl203) hereto- 

 fore quoted. I advised him that I did not come 

 before the board as a protestor, and called his 

 attention to Section 12, which reads as follows: 



" 'Awarding committees are instructed that 



