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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Brown, that were slaughtered in Chicago, and 

 we obtained their mouths. We took these and 

 others that we were able to obtain, went to 

 Springfield and met the new Board at its or- 

 ganization, and asked that they would consider 

 the evidence that we brought before them. We 

 submitted to them standard authorities as to 

 the ages of animals as indicated by the teeth, 

 referring to the information we had given on 

 the week of the show, and submitted the mouths 

 as evidence of the frauds, and asked whether 

 Mr. Scott had not failed in his obligations to the 

 public and to the state in not making investiga- 

 tions in reference to the information that was 

 brought to him as to the fraudulent ages of the 

 cattle exhibited. On motion of Mr. D. B. Gill- 

 ham, we were requested to put our charges in 

 writing. These charges and the report of the 

 committee to whom they were referred, we 

 presented in Chapter 28, on dentition. The 

 committee saw fit to shield the president behind 

 a technicality of rules of the Board, to- wit: 

 Section 5 and Section 12, which we have given. 

 It will be remembered that this information 

 was brought to Mr. Scott before the cattle were 

 brought into the ring at all. We could not have 

 acted under Rule 5, and in a manner recognized 

 (as the committee say), by established rules. In 

 fact, we said to President Scott that we did not 

 come as a protestor, but we came for the pur- 

 pose of placing facts before the society, before 

 there was any complication of awards, and 

 asked that the Board would take the initiatory 

 steps to determine the correctness of the 

 charges, and relieve the exhibitors from becom- 



cers would not recognize fraud except it comes 

 to their notice through their awarding commit- 

 tees or their superintendent? 



This is what they substantially said in the 

 committee's report, and what the Board said in 

 adopting this report. As illustrating Mr. Scott, 

 in his peculiar position, we reproduce, in Chap- 

 ter 28, a cartoon from the "Breeders' Journal," 

 which we had prepared at the time to better 

 illustrate the Board's effort at sustaining him 

 on this UL tenable and dangerous ground. We 

 repeatedly called attention to the quotations 

 from the inaugural addresses of the different 

 presidents of the Board, in which they recog- 

 nized the necessity of measures to make their 

 awards authoritative and of value to the pub- 

 lic. If it was to be understood that the State 

 Board of Agriculture of Illinois would not take 

 cognizance of fraud, except it come through 

 these two mediums, the power that had been 

 delegated to them by the state should be re- 

 voked, and the state legislature should provide 

 some other means to encourage the agricultural 

 and live stock interest. 



If no record had been kept of the facts de- 

 veloped at the different shows, grave injustice 

 would have been done the Herefords. It is a 

 matter of fact that all the Hereford two-year- 

 olds showed with half as many teeth as many 

 of the Shorthorn two-year-olds had, at the Chi- 

 cago Fat Stock Show in 1882. This proves 

 conclusively that the Herefords were much the 

 younger. We give herewith the facts of this 

 matter which we published in the "Breeders' 

 Journal" at the time: 



STEERS TO WHICH PRIZES WERE AWARDED, GRADE AND SWEEPSTAKES CLASSES, FAT STOCK SHOW, 1882. 



*In Chapter XXVIII on Dentition, we present illustrations of the mouths of some of these steers. 



ing prosecutors. The committee reported that 

 we could not have been ignorant of our own 

 plain duty as an exhibitor. Was it fair to say 

 that the exhibitors are under obligations to 

 prosecute, and also that the society or its offi- 



"We give a table, showing the catalogue num- 

 ber, name of exhibitor, age in days, and age in 

 years and months, weight, gain per day, number 

 of teeth, and the premiums awarded, and the 

 age as indicated by the teeth. We have also 



