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individual bond, to make and keep a correct 

 statement of expenses each year, and from the 

 sales of each lot, $500 to be taken and invested 

 in some good securities, until the expiration of 

 the contract. The herd that showed the largest 

 returns at the end of the ten years should be 

 entitled to this fund. We suggested that the 

 original cows should be replaced by heifers 

 bred from this lot, the draft cows to be fed 

 and marketed with the produce. Should this 

 proposition be accepted, and it should seem 

 best to the parties interested, to select land 

 within fifty miles of Chicago, on the line of 

 some leading railroad, and divide this land into 

 parcels and apportion to each breed an equal 

 quantity, we would have accepted such an ar- 

 rangement. 



It was not the intention of the T. L. Miller 

 Co. to limit this to simply three herds, but the 

 Shorthorn and Polled cattle men were allowed, 

 if they chose, to make five herds from each 

 breed, and breed and feed against five or ten 

 herds (or any number not exceeding that). 



Our object being to get the most authoritative 

 test that it was possible to have. We contem- 

 plated that such arrangements should be adopted 

 as would secure an honest administration for 

 each herd. We believed that it was due to the 

 public, that such a test should be made, and 

 were anxious to submit the merits of the claims 

 that were made for the Hereford breed of cattle, 

 to the most severe and searching tests that could 

 be made. 



THE GROVE 3D (5051) 2490. 

 Bred by B. Rogers. 



