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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



need fear only themselves. Let each ask him- 

 self the question, 'For what am I breeding?' 

 His answer to that will declare whether he be 

 an enemy or a friend to the interest. 



"WILLIAM WARFIELD." 



IMPORTATION OF GUDGELL & SIMPSON. 



On the 15th of April, 1882, Gudgell & 

 Simpson, of Independence, Mo., shipped 71 

 head of thoroughbred Hereford cattle from 



CHAMPION OX AT SMITHFIELD, 1884. 



Cross-bred Hereford sire, Shorthorn dam. Age 3 years 



6 months. Weight 2617 Ibs. Bred by Chas. Doe, 



Shropshire. Exhibited by R. Wortley, Norfolk. 



England to quarantine them at Quebec. They 

 came by the way of the steamer Texas. Mr. 

 Vaughn was in charge of these cattle. Breed- 

 ers' Journal. 



MR. B. HERSHEY'S IMPORTATION. 



"Wallace's Monthly" has the following to say 

 of an importation of Hereford cattle: "Our 

 friend, Mr. B. Hershey, of Muscatine, la., has 

 been across the water and has made a large im- 

 portation of Hereford cattle, numbering some 

 sixty odd heifers, and eight or ten young bulls. 

 They were selected under his own eye, and the 

 best of judges who saw them on their arrival at 

 Quebec, pronounced them a very choice lot. 

 The special object in going so largely into this 

 breed is their supposed better adaption of the 

 vicissitudes of ranch life on the plains. It is 

 claimed that the comparison between this 

 breed and the Shorthorns, on the plains, has 

 been fully made and satisfactorily settled, and 

 that the Herefords are altogether better. This 

 corresponds with our own judgment of the two 

 breeds. There can be no doubt, that as a tribe', 

 they possess more vigorous constitutions and 

 are better able to take care of themselves than 

 the Shorthorns, but an intimation of this kind 

 to a Shorthorn man is like intimating to Char- 

 ley Poster that some of the Lexingtons have 

 gone blind, and he hurls back at you. such 



choice epithets as 'blockhead,' 'ignoramus/ 

 'fool,' and every other pet name short of 

 'thief.' Both breeds have been tried on the 

 plains, and after trial, the verdict is all against 

 Shorthorns, and all in favor of Herefords?' 



T. L. MILLER'S IMPORTATION. 



The second importation of Hereford cattle 

 by T. L. Miller consisted of 114 head. We 

 went to England in May, 1880, and after visit- 

 ing the principal Hereford cattle breeders, pur- 

 chased during the month of June. We re- 

 turned to the United States on July 1st, and 

 visited Washington and had an interview with 

 Secretary Sherman and the President, with a 

 view to have the rule modified, that required 

 ninety days quarantine from the date of land- 

 ing of the cattle in America, but failed to reach 

 any modification of existing orders. After- 

 ward the time of quarantine was changed to 

 ninety days from date of shipment of cattle. 



We then returned to England, shipped the 

 cattle on the 19th of September, via steamer 

 Gallian, Capt. Moen, Master, to Baltimore. 

 They were taken in clean box cars from the 

 dock to the eight hundred acre farm belonging 

 to the B. & 0. R. R., seven miles out. Here 

 they remained three months, under the care of 

 Mr. Thos. Smith (fi 209A), who went from our 

 farm to England to take charge of the ship- 

 ment. 



At the expiration of the quarantine, Mr. 

 T. E. Miller went to Baltimore to bring the 

 cattle home. The cattle were loaded, at a 

 private side track on the farm from a stock 

 yard built for the occasion, into clean new box 

 cars. The B. & 0. road sent the train through- 

 to Chicago as a special, on fast passenger train 

 time, running a half hour behind their fast 

 "Oyster Express," and ahead of their through 

 passenger train. The train started at 2:30 

 p. M. Saturday, September 8th, for Illinois and 

 reached the farm at Beecher, where all were 

 comfortably stabled by Monday evening, Janu- 

 ary 10th. 



Thus these cattle were moved by a special 

 train from Leominster, England, to a steamer 

 at Bristol, and put directly from the cars upon 

 the steamer, and upon arrival at Baltimore 

 kept entirely away from any other stock, and 

 the same plan was pursued until the arrival at 

 Beecher. On the whole route of 5,000 miles 

 they never were in public shipping yard or 

 highway, never an animal sick, and arrived at 

 their destination in as good condition as 

 though they had been quietly on the farm. 



Captain Moen was to be especially com- 

 mended for his care in commanding his steam- 



