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545 



Supplementing, enlarging and succeeding 

 the work of their first importer, the late Wm. H. 

 Sotham, Mr. Miller may truthfully be said to 

 have done more for the upbuilding and dis- 

 semination of the Hereford cattle than any 

 other man who has connected himself with the 

 breed. There were some differences between 

 Mr. Sotham and Mr. Miller, mainly growing 

 out of some methods of procedure during the 

 thick of the "Battle of the Breeds," and be- 

 cause these two old generals were so alike and 

 forceful in their temperament. Nevertheless, 



was always a lover of farm life, and after a 

 very successful business career in Chicago, he 

 retired to Highland Farm, at Beecher, 111., a 

 tract of 1,000 acres, which he improved by 

 tiling and careful cultivation and embellished 

 with the most extensive suite of farm buildings 

 ever attempted up to that time. The famous 

 Miller barn with its double-headed wind-mill 

 was the talk of the live stock world until it 

 was destroyed by fire, only to be succeeded by 

 another more modern and convenient structure 

 two hundred feet square. It is doubtful if this 



AT T. F. B. SOTHAM'S SALE, 1896. 

 Weavergrace Farm. 



my father frequently told me before his death 

 that Mr. Miller had done a noble and un- 

 paralleled service for the Hereford breed of 

 cattle and for all sound cattle interests, while 

 several years ago Mr. Miller wrote me that, 

 "during the thick of the fight I could not stop 

 to bind up the old man's wounds, but now that 

 the battle is won, I will tell you what will no 

 doubt interest you: All the information I had 

 to make my fight for the Herefords I got from 

 your father and his writings." 



Mr. Miller was born in the East, in Massa- 

 chusetts, I believe. After receiving a fair edu- 

 cation, he was employed in a butcher shop, and 

 later carried on the business for himself. He 



Miller barn has ever been equaled for capacity 

 and convenience, nor can it ever be surpassed 

 as an ideal cattle home. 



No abler advocate ever championed the cause 

 of improvement in cattle. Like my father, he 

 was a fighter when it took a fighter to make an 

 impression on existing erroneous prejudices and 

 preferences. What the tenacious fighter in the 

 courts of law of to-day adds to the value of an 

 attorney, were the qualities essential to the suc- 

 cessful consideration by the court of American 

 cattle opinion, brought to the Hereford breed 

 by T. L. Miller. There was jealousy of him 

 among those who should have been his guileless 

 friends, but pinned down to a fair estimate of 



