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but reflect that there are some parts of the 

 road which we have traveled, in trying to ad- 

 vance the beef interest of America, to which 

 we can look back with undisguised pleasure. 

 A man is to be commended for his efforts to 

 make "two blades of grass grow where one grew 

 before/' but many times he does not have his 

 efforts appreciated. We cannot pass the in- 

 cident of the presentation of a testimonial from 

 the English Hereford cattle breeders, without 

 expressing our gratification that our efforts to 

 give the Hereford cattle their proper position 

 was appreciated by our English friends. The 

 following letter from the Hon. Thos. Duckham 

 to the "Hereford Times" was no doubt the be- 

 ginning of the movement that culminated in 

 1883. After the opening of the letter, in 

 speaking of the growing popularity of the 

 Herefords, he says: 



"I must say that the meed of praise is due 

 to T. L. Miller, of Beecher, Will County, Illi- 

 nois, U. S. A., whose untiring perseverance in 

 the cause merits every feeling of gratitude 

 which the breeders of Herefords can award 

 him. 



"Not only has Mr. Miller patronized the 

 Hereford by establishing the largest and, I 

 think I may add, the best herd of Herefords 



in the United States, but he has so placed them 

 before the stock owners of that great country, 

 at the various exhibitions and by his sound 

 judgment, untiring perseverance, great talent 

 as a writer and great influence as a gentleman 

 of position; he has claimed for them (and to a 

 certain extent successfully) a front rank in the 

 great state exhibitions of the United States. 

 It was Mr. Miller who protested against send- 

 ing his Herefords to the International Exhi- 

 bition at Philadelphia in 1876 unless an Eng- 

 lish judge was selected to aid in awarding the 

 premiums, which protest resulted in my being 

 sent out by the British Commission. It was 

 Mr. Miller who first introduced the Herefords 

 into the far West to improve the vast herds ID 

 the Western states. It was Mr. Miller who re- 

 solved to obtain the necessary information and 

 publish a Herd Book for Hereford cattle in 

 America. It was Mr. Miller who, knowing the 

 value of the press in the promotion of any 

 great object, established a paper in the interest 

 of Herefords. 



"Knowing all this, from many years of cor- 

 respondence with that gentleman, I feel that I 

 should be wanting in a proper discharge of 

 duty to him if I did not place those facts 

 before your readers. I may add further, that 



HFHEFORDS IN ARIZONA. 



