HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



enterprise, judgment and business tact of Mr. 

 Morgan and Mr. Thos. Rogers." Now, sir, I 

 have no desire to detract in the slightest degree 

 from the honors really due to those gentlemen, 

 but quite the contrary, as I know full well the 

 value which is to be attached to the judgment 

 and care of one who can so successfully select 

 and make up animals for the show ring as Mr. 



W. E. CAMPBELL, OF WINCHESTER, OKLA. 



(Nicknamed "Shorthorn Campbell," and later "Baldfaee 



Campbell.") 



Morgan, as also, to an auctioneer, who so perse- 

 veringly uses his best efforts in the discharge 

 of the duties he undertakes, as Mr. Rogers. At 

 the same time, I must say that the meed of 

 praise so profusely given in that article is due 

 to Mr. T. L. Miller, of Beecher, 111., U. S. A., 

 whose untiring perseverance in the cause mer- 

 its every feeling of gratitude which the breeders 

 of Herefords can award him. 



Not only has Mr. Miller patronized the Here- 

 fords 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 

 stock owners of that great country at the vari- 

 ous 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 ex- 



tent successfully so) a front rank in the great 

 state exhibitions of the United States. It was 

 Mr. Miller who protested against sending his 

 Herefords to the International Exhibition at 

 Philadelphia in 1876, unless an English 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 in the west- 

 ern states. It was Mr. Miller who resolved 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 an agricultural paper in the in- 

 terest of Herefords. 



Knowing all this from many years of cor- 

 respondence with that gentleman, I feel I 

 should be wanting in the proper discharge of 

 a duty to him if I did not place those facts 

 before your readers. I may add further, that 

 Mr. Miller was here in June last, when he pur- 

 chased about 100 of our far-famed red with 

 white faces and, although far past the meridian 

 of life, he hastened back to use his best en- 

 deavors to obtain a removal of the restrictions 

 of a ninety days' quarantine, imposed upon that 

 side upon animals imported from this country. 



I fear his usual success has not attended his 

 efforts in that direction and I hear he is now 

 returning, if not returned, to England to ar- 

 range for shipping his purchases. 



There are several breeders of Herefords in the 

 United States of much longer standing than 

 Mr. Miller, but it was left to him to bring them 

 to the front in the manner in which they are 

 now brought. Mr. Miller only commenced as 

 a Hereford breeder in 1871. In 1872 his then 

 partner, Mr. Powell, a Herefordshire man, 

 came to England and purchased a few Here- 

 fords, among them the handsome young cow 

 Dolly Varden, bred by Mr. Morris, Town 

 House, Madley, and her two offspring. Mr. 

 Powell soon entered upon another business and 

 Mr. Miller was most fortunate in securing the 

 assistance of one so thoroughly conversant with 

 the management of a herd as Mr. Morgan. The 

 excellence of Mr. Miller's herd which he sent 

 to the International Exhibition, and the manner 

 in which Mr. Morgan brought them out and 

 placed them before the judges, were themes of 

 admiration to all who beheld them. After I 

 discharged my duties at that exhibition, I vis- 

 ited Mr. Miller and numerous other Hereford 

 breeders, in order that I might make their per- 

 sonal acquaintance and see how the various 

 herds acclimatized, but at no place did I see 



