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the work of T. L. Miller, no cattleman whose 

 opinion is worth having, ever failed to give Mr. 

 Miller that great measure of praise and appre- 

 ciation he had fearlessly and honorably earned. 

 Breeders of Hereford cattle to-day, with their 

 breed the acknowledged leading beef improver, 

 with their organization leading all others in 

 willing submission, with all the homage paid 

 to breed and breeders that proves again the old 

 adage that "nothing succeeds like success," can- 

 not from the very nature of the present situa- 

 tion understand the bitterness of the fight that 

 waged during "the battle of the breeds/' when 

 Herefords were denied a classification in the 

 premium lists of the fairs, when space in the 

 agricultural press was denied to Hereford writ- 

 ers, when the strong arm of a George Morgan 

 was compelled to intervene to prevent bodily 



at Lafayette, Ind. Although there was no 

 class for Herefords, Mr. Miller took his show 

 herd there for exhibition. He was not allowed 

 to compete with Shorthorns, but the Board of 

 Directors met and voted him a special purse, 

 and promised a class for Herefords next year. 

 Messrs. Culbertson, Earl and Van Natta there, 

 for the first time, saw the Hereford cattle. Mr. 

 Culbertson and Mr. Van Natta bought their 

 first Herefords soon after of Mr. Miller, and 

 I think the same is true of Mr. Earl. 



Under the able management of Geo. F. Mor- 

 gan, Mr. Miller's herd won great distinction, 

 beating herds of all breeds, including the im- 

 ported Herefords of some of the contemporary 

 breeders above mentioned. His great sire was 

 "Success," whose lithograph in colors adorns 

 thousands of farmers' homes throughout the 



THE VETERAN FEEDER, JOHN LETHAM, 

 Goodenow, 111., and his two champions. (Photo from life.) 



violence to such men as T. L. Miller. All well 

 enough is it to-day to chime and re-echo in the 

 effulgent light of a supreme peace secured by a 

 universal acknowledgment of Hereford merit, 

 but let us never forget that the Hereford breed 

 owes the greater part of the security of its posi- 

 tion to the efforts of T. L. -Miller, in his in- 

 cisive, insistent, never-faltering, effective meth- 

 ods, by which he compelled the cattle world to 

 investigate and the powers that were to ac- 

 knowledge the merits of Hereford cattle. 



The Hereford's merit is easy to see if only 

 people have a chance to see and try for them- 

 selves. Chas. M. Culbertson, Adams Earl and 

 W. S. Van Natta were all naturally Shorthorn 

 men; the first Herefords they ever saw were 

 T. L. Miller's. It came about in this way. The 

 Tippecanoe County Fair was then, as now, held 



country. I well remember with what pride and 

 satisfaction Mr. Miller showed me the splendid 

 matrons of his herd by "Old Success" on the 

 occasion of my last visit to Highlands. Like 

 my father, Mr. Miller loved Hereford cattle 

 better than wealth, ease or life itself. No effort 

 of labor, no sacrifice of time or means was too 

 great for him to render in the interest of the 

 Hereford breed. Not getting a fair hearing in 

 the agricultural press he founded a paper of his 

 own, "The Breeders' Journal," and maintained 

 it at great sacrifice of time, labor and money 

 a paper that was widely read, and copies of 

 which are kept by Hereford breeders to-day, as 

 priceless souvenirs of a crisis long and happily 

 past. 



When the depression came, it caught Mr. 

 Millej as it has caught many another honest, 



