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personal and pecuniary interests, which are he- 

 ing so seriously prejudiced. To hesitate 

 longer about applying the remedy would be lit- 

 tle less than criminal/ 



"Too late, George. The horse is stolen; no 

 use locking the barn now." 



We now quote Mr. Rust, of February 7, 1884, 

 in the "Breeders' Gazette": 



1IEREFORDS VS. SHORTHORNS MR. MILLER AND 



MR. RUST. 



"There is no form of misrepresentation more 

 annoying to a man than to be perpetually mis- 

 quoted, or to have one's expressions garbled and 

 used in a different sense from that in which 

 they were originally employed. And for a year 

 or two past I don't know how long I have 

 been annoyed by the persistent efforts of Mr. T. 

 L. Miller, in a paper published by him in the 

 interests of his herd of Hereford cattle, and 

 for the advancement of his private interests as 

 a breeder, to place me in the position of having 

 asserted certain things with reference to Short- 

 horns and Herefords which I have never said or 

 written, and which Mr. Miller knew I never in- 

 tended to say and did not believe. During the 

 past fifteen or sixteen years I have had frequent 

 occasion to write something of these cattle, and 

 scanning this matter, Mr. Miller selects isolated 

 sentences here and there, which, by separating 

 from their context and using on a different 

 subject from that of which I was treating, he 

 attempts to make me say, .what he would like 

 to have me say. And not only this, but when 

 my language does not entirely suit him, he 

 does not hesitate to change it to rewrite my 

 sentences to put parts of different sentences 

 and paragraphs together; and make up such 

 a statement as he pleases, and then to quote 

 the whole as my words; and if they are my 

 words, they must, of course, represent my opin- 

 ions. In the last issue, now before me, in an 

 article on 'Beef Breeds,' he says : 



" 'One has but to learn from the Shorthorn 

 journals that their reputation is gone, and they 

 may account for it by bad and dishonest prac- 

 tices, bad breeding or any other reason. The 

 fact remains, and there is no better expression 

 in accounting for it than that of Mr. Geo. W. 

 Rust, in a letter to the "Breeders' Gazette," in 

 one of the earliest issues, in which he says that 

 "farmers had heard much of the Shorthorn 

 breed of cattle and of their ability to improve 

 the common stock of the country, and having 

 tried them and been disappointed, they were 

 seeking some other breed that would accomplish 

 this purpose." ; 



"Now, I never wrote any such stuff to the 

 'Gazette' and never expect to, until I lose all 

 my sense of honesty, together with the use of 

 my eyes and my ears. And I do not remember 

 to have written but one article over my proper 

 signature for the earlier numbers of the 'Ga- 

 zette,' and I find but this one in looking over 

 the files, and the above quotation bears evidence 

 of having been twisted out of that article. It 

 was on the subject of the Shorthorn Herd Book 

 an entirely different subject from that to 

 which Mr. Miller applies my language, after 

 having perverted it to suit his purpose. It will 

 be found on page 29, of Vol. I ; and I trust I 

 may be given space for a brief extract or two. 



c. B. SMITH, 



Hereford Park, Fayette, Mo. 



"I had stated in substance, that the demand 

 for bulls among farmers and graziers should 

 bring a rich reward to those who had cultivated 

 and maintained the excellence of Shorthorn 

 cattle; but breeders found themselves brought 

 into competition with other people with im- 

 purely-bred [yet these were recorded as pure 

 T. L. M.] bulls to sell, which, in the unfor- 

 tunate condition of the records, they were able 

 to substitute and sell for pure Shorthorns. And 

 then comes the following paragraph : 



' 'But time tries everything ; and the people 

 who had been imposed upon with spurious cat- 

 tle, and those who had been deceived into sup- 

 posing they were introducing well-bred bulls 



