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them so admirably managed as those under 

 Mr. Morgan's care. 



I would here respectfully suggest that the 

 Hereford breeders pay some compliment to Mr. 

 Miller when he returns to this country, in ac- 

 knowledgment of the very valuable assistance 

 he has rendered to them in creating a demand 

 for their pedigree animals, which, although of 

 great and unprecedented proportions, is now 

 only in its infancy. T. DUCKHAM. 



Baygham Court, Ross, Aug. 17, 1880. 



marbled to perfection, after one, or sometimes 

 two winters' feeding in stalls, with ground feed. 

 I have in mind now, one pair of them that I 

 slaughtered, one of which made eighty pounds 

 and the other eighty-one pounds of dressed 

 meat, hide and tallow, to the 100 pounds alive. 

 Those were oxen of six to seven years old, and 

 had been worked before feeding. I notice, how- 

 ever, that now-a-days your prize steers beat it, 

 but for that day I considered it extra fine. So 

 you will readily see that twenty-five years ago 



SAMPLE OF A MODEL RANGE HERD. 



A HARTFORD (CONN.) BUTCHER'S EXPERIENCE 

 (1881). 



The following is an extract, from the letter 

 of a gentleman in Dakota, and it will be no- 

 ticed, that from cutting and marketing, he has 

 had an experience that sustains the position we 

 have taken as to the quality of Hereford beef: 



"For many years at Hartford, Connecticut, 

 my old home and birthplace, I handled very 

 many fine cattle, and was for many years in the 

 marketing business, and in that rich city, cut 

 up many prize cattle and always cut first-class 

 beef. But in those days, from 1852 to 1862, 

 1 used to get some Hereford cattle, fed by Con- 

 necticut valley farmers, and they were always 

 superior beef to the Durham s, or the noted 

 Connecticut red oxen of that day. Fat and lean 



'I preferred the Herefords to anything for fine 

 beef animals. But enough. I am now up here 

 in the richest valley in the United States, which 

 aside from wheat is to be a great stock country 

 in the future. I am just getting a stock farm 

 started to make Hereford beef." 



A MARYLAND BREEDER'S EXPERIENCE. 



John Merryman was one of the oldest breed- 

 ers of Hereford cattle, and thus stated his ex- 

 perience : 



At the New York State Fair, held at Water- 

 town, in 1856, I purchased from Messrs. A. & 

 H. Bowen, a yearling bull, Catalpa, and a 

 heifer, Lilac. My next purchase was from Mr. 

 Sotham, and consisted of thirteen cows and 

 heifers, and two bulls, including Blenheim, 1879. 



My next purchase was from the State Board 



