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CHAPTER XXIX. 



205A HEREFORD ITEMS IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES 



The decade ending 1890 saw great activity 

 in the Hereford interest, and if full extracts 

 could be made from the agricultural and stock 

 journals of that time, they would make good 

 contemporaneous history. 



We cannot hope to give a full account of all 

 the movements of Herefords in those days, 

 but will give some extracts from the press of 

 that time. 



HEREFORDS WANTED IN AMERICA. 



At the Shorthorn Convention, held at La- 

 fayette, Ind., 1880, Judge Jones reported that 

 Shorthorns were preferred over Jerseys, Here- 

 fords and other breeds in England. Did the 

 Judge get this information from Shorthorn 

 breeders in England? Did he learn, while 

 there, that there were some 500 head of Here- 

 fords bought for exportation to America, and 

 that among the purchasers were Mr. Cochrane, 

 of Canada; Mr. Earl, Mr. Raub, Mr. Fowler 

 and Mr. Sample, all of Lafayette, Ind., men of 

 large wealth, of large experience in the cattle 

 business as packers, graziers and feeders? Did 

 he learn that C. M. Culbertson, of Chicago, a 

 packer of thirty or forty years' experience, and 

 a large grazier and feeder, and that Mr. Ben 

 Hershey, a man of large experience and great 

 wealth, and one who owns a large herd of Jer- 

 seys in Iowa, were large purchasers? That 

 T. L. Miller, of some reputation and experi- 

 ence as a Hereford breeder, was a large pur- 

 chaser? That Messrs. Simpson & Grudgell, of 

 Missouri, were there purchasing Herefords? 

 All of these from this country. Did he hear of 

 any Shorthorns being bought for America? 

 The Judge may say that these were Americans, 

 and he was saying what Englishmen preferred. 

 We will quote what the "Mark Lane Express" 

 says: "There are few graziers in England who 

 would buy Shorthorn bullocks if they could 

 get Herefords." The Breeders' Journal. 



ECONOMY OF KEEP. 



The Kentucky "Live Stock Record" said that 

 five Hereford bullocks, three, years old or over, 



could be fed where four Shorthorn bullocks 

 could. 



HEREFORDS WANTED ON THE PLAINS. 



The "National Live Stock Journal" said: 

 "Breeders of Shorthorn cattle may not safely 

 shut their eyes against the fact that the Here- 

 fords have made tremendous strides in public 

 favor within the past five years, and that such 

 of our ranchmen, on the western plains, as 

 have tried them, almost unanimously give 

 them the preference over the Shorthorns, be- 

 cause, as they express it, they are 'better wrest- 

 lers,' that is, they are better adapted to the 

 conditions under which cattle axe compelled to 

 exist on these plains than are the Shorthorns. 

 This, we feel called upon to say, is the almost 

 universal verdict of the ranchmen that we have 

 met, in the past two years, and we have met 

 very many of them." 



HEREFORDS AT LONDON. 



The "Mark Lane Express" of England, in 

 noticing the letter of a Shorthorn breeder, 

 written from England, and appearing in the 

 "Breeder's Gazette," saying that London sales- 

 men could not sell Hereford bullocks in that 

 market, says of the writer that it is no wonder 

 that he did not give his name, and that the 

 only difficulty the London salesmen experience 

 with regard to Hereford bullocks, is in getting 

 enough of them; and that, as grass-fed beef, 

 there is nothing that comes into London that 

 can touch the Hereford. We should not be at 

 all surprised if the writer of the article re- 

 ferred to was a resident in or near Chicago, 

 instead of being a steward and judge at Smith- 

 field. If he had held the two positions, then 

 the charge that has been made of Shorthorn 

 influence in the management of that show has 

 this to support the charge. Breeder's Journal. 



PEDIGREE CRAZE. 



The "National Live Stock Journal" struck a 

 blow at the Shorthorn pedigree craze and prac- 

 tically endorsed Mr. Sotham's teachings at this 

 time by saying: 



