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the Association and breed. Let the majority 

 rule. No loyal Hereford man need fear to pre- 

 sent his case and abide by the decision of a true 

 Hereford majority. No man is worthy of a 

 Hereford office who is afraid of such majority 

 and resorts to proxies. 



We submit this matter reluctantly to a 

 book that will go before the world as a History 

 of Hereford Cattle, but we have endeavored to 

 make this book of wider interest than an ordin- 

 ary history ; to make it valuable for the future 

 as well as the past, and to give the light of the 

 past for the better illumination of the future. 



There is no fear of the future if the menace of 

 a "close corporation" be subdued. In this as in 

 all other things we speak plainly, in words of 

 no uncertain meaning. The Hereford breed of 

 cattle have nothing to fear from any competitor 

 on the score of absolute inherent merit. In- 

 telligence and honesty in the future conduct of 

 the Hereford breed will make their improve- 

 ment steady, maintaining their present lead by 

 keeping them apace with any improvement pos- 

 sible to other breeds, and consequently keeping 

 them in the forefront of beef cattle for all time, 

 in the future as in the past. 



THE END. 



