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HIST OK Y OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



the public, to whom she gave the following 

 account of her birth and breeding, through a 

 placard conspicuously posted over her stall : 



"I was bom on W. E. Campbell's ranch, Aug. 

 19, 1882, and was at once christened Texas 

 Jane. 



"My father was a Hereford thoroughbred, 

 My mother a wild 'Texas scrub.' 



The cross makes me easily fed, 

 And I am able to rustle for grub. 



"Don't stare at the meat on my back, 

 Or be surprised at my snow-white face; 



For it was all the work of papa, 

 That gave me this Hereford grace. 



The Herefords won sweepstakes on bull of 

 any age* or breed; first and second sweepstakes 



Thomas Clark exhibited Anxiety 3d, a son of 

 old Anxiety; and Mr. C. K. Parmelee ex- 

 hibited Sir Garnet, a son of The Grove 3d, re- 

 cently purchased from Mr. Culbertson. The 

 result was, first prize to Mr. Thos. Clark's 

 Anxiety 3d, and the second to Fowler & Van 

 Natta for Tregrehan. There were no two- 

 year-old bulls exhibited. On yearling bulls 

 Messrs. Earl & Stuart took the first prize with 

 Jumbo, and the second with Lord Horace. In 

 bull calves the first prize went to Emperor 3d, 

 owned by Earl & Stuart, and the second to 

 Beckjay Hero, owned by Thos. Clark. 



Of cows three years old and upward a 

 splendid exhibit was made. The first prize 

 went to Mr. Thos. Clark for his cow Peerless 



VIEW ON SAMUEL WEAVER'S FARM, 

 Decatur, 111. 



on bull and five calves and second in sweep- 

 stakes on cow of any age or breed. 



THE LAFAYETTE FAIR, 1883. The best 

 Herefords in America were again pitted 

 against each other at the Lafayette fair. In 

 the show for aged bulls there was Messrs. 

 Fowler & Van Natta's Tregrehan who won the 

 sweepstakes in 1882 as the best bull of any age 

 or breed over a combined show of seven Here- 

 fords and eight Shorthorns of the year. Mr. 



by Lord Wilton. This cow took the sweep- 

 stakes as the best Hereford female of any age 

 at St. Louis, 1882. The second prize went to 

 C. K. Parmelee, of Wolcott, Ind., for his cow 

 Silvia. (fl 285) In the two-year-old class the 

 exhibit was an extraordinary one, and was most 

 hotly contested, as there is seldom seen such a 

 grand display of in-calf heifers. The first 

 prize was awarded to Princess, a prize heifer, 

 imported and owned by C. K. Parmelee. The 



