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if they have good reason to believe that any ex- 

 hibitor, by false entry or otherwise, attempts 

 to deceive the committee or the public and ob- 

 tain an award by misrepresentation, they shall 

 report the fact at once to the superintendent of 

 the department, who shall report the same to 

 the board, who may expel such exhibitor for 

 fraud for at least two years.' He declined to 

 take any action except I should come to him 

 as prescribed in Section 5. 



"I then went to the Hon. John P. Reynolds, 





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a member of the board, and called his attention 

 to these facts, and to the fact that I had seen 

 the president and lie declined to take any ac- 

 tion, and that I should bring the matter before 

 the Hereford Society, which was to meet that 

 evening, and ask of them to take some definite 

 action in reference to these frauds. He after- 

 wards saw Mr. C. M. Culbertson and referred 

 to the conversation I had had with him, and 

 risked of Mr. Culbertson that the Hereford So- 

 ciety should take no action, and that he would 

 see that an investigation was made into these 

 facts. In the evening of this day at a meet- 

 ing of the Hereford Society I brought up the 

 fact of this steer in particular, and stated that 

 there were many other entries in the show that 

 were fraudulent, and asked what action might 

 be taken on the merits of these entries. Mr. 

 Culbertson then reported the request of Mr. 

 Reynolds that no action should be taken, and 

 that he would endeavor to have an investigation 

 made in reference to the charges as to the 

 fraudulent entries of the Moninger steers. At 

 the meeting of the board on the following day 

 the matter was brought up. As I understood, 

 President Scott opposed the action being taken 

 for the reason that it had not come before the 

 board in the form and manner prescribed by 

 the rules, to- wit : by protest of a competing ex- 

 hibitor. This view appears to have prevailed, 

 and no action was taken to ascertain ages of the 



steers on exhibition at this show. The proba- 

 bilities are that but for this promise of Mr. 

 Reynolds the Hereford Society would have 

 taken some definite action to determine the 

 ages of the Moninger steers and others. The 

 Hereford Society owed it to themselves to 

 secure a thorough investigation as to the ages 

 of the cattle on exhibition. It was generally 

 understood among the exhibitors that the Short- 

 horns were entered under their actual ages. Mr. 

 Moninger's cattle in particular were examined 

 in comparison with other cattle in the show, es- 

 pecially with the Herefords. 



"This was known as well by some members 

 of the board as by the exhibitors at the show. 

 In my interview with Mr. Scott I took the 

 ground that it was the board's business to pro- 

 tect the exhibitors, and that they had no right 

 to compel the exhibitors to protect themselves. 

 Following these efforts to get justice from the 

 board, I found that two of Moninger's steers 

 had been butchered and three cattle exhibited 

 by Messrs. Groff, of Canada, had also been 

 slaughtered by Messrs. Eastland & Duddles- 

 tcn. These were 111 and 113 of the exhibition 

 catalogue; 111 known as 'Grinnell' and 113 as 

 'Tom Brown.' The others were 15, 17 and 18 

 of the exhibition catalogue, and were slaugh- 

 tered by Mr. Ford. These teeth I took before 

 the State Board at its meeting on the second 

 Tuesday in January; first in an interview with 

 Messrs. Scott and Reynolds at Mr. Scott's 

 rooms in the Leland House, Springfield, and 

 afterwards the full 

 board at the agricul- 

 tural rooms in the 

 State House. The 

 indications as to the. 

 age of these animals 

 was discussed as 

 shown by these 

 teeth, and after- 

 wards put in form, 

 formally charging 

 fraud upon the ex-' 

 hibitors, as per the 

 statements herewith, 

 and with the report 

 of the committee, no. 13. TEETH AT 3 YEARS. 

 Hon. J. P. Rey- 

 nolds, J. Irving Pearce and John Virgin. 

 ."This is substantially the case as it pro- 

 gressed. I was desirous that the board should 

 know these facts, and hoped that when it was 

 brought before them they would recognize the 

 necessity of taking action on the information. 

 With the same hope in view, the matter was 

 brought to them on the last day but one of the 



