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When a breeder goes there in search of stock and one man has not got what you 

 want, he does not turn around and try to prejudice you against buying his neigh- 

 bor's cattle, but takes you in his buggy and drives you to his neighbor, and tries 

 to get you to buy of him. If I have stock to sell and another man is engaged in 

 the same business, it is a part of my duty not to allow that party to go away with- 

 out buying some of our stock here at home. We should try to build up the Short- 

 horn interest in our State, rather than to throw up barriei-s against it. There are 

 fifteen or twenty of our Shorthorn breeders not here to-day, who should be taking 

 an interest in this meeting. Every farmer should have a pure bred Shorthorn bull, 

 or a pure bred bull of some other breed — instead of breeding some scallawag cattle, 

 going to market and bringing three to three and a half cents per pound. It is a 

 shame on the people of this State to take such cattle to the market of Cincinnati 

 and other cities — where it is positively damaging to say that you are from Indiana; 

 it lowers the selling value of your cattle. We should try and correct this and go 

 to work in earnest and get every man to breed Shorthorn stock, and then where- 

 ever they sell the cattle, it will speak for the cattle of the State. 



In 1883, Mr. Brownlee, of Iowa, showed a fine cow at the fat-stock show at 

 Chicago, and was successful in taking a first prize over Mr. Miller's heifer. The 

 next year I was there, and the very fact of that cow winning that prize, was said 

 by a prominent Iowa breeder, to have been worth millions of dollars to the State 

 of Iowa. Mr. Moberly, of Kentucky, is going to take his herd to New Orleans, 

 and those beef cattle taken there will speak for Kentucky. Mr. Potts is also there 

 with fine cattle, which will speak for Illinois ; Mr. H. C. Burleigh is there with one 

 of the finest herds of Herefo d cattle ever shown. W^e want to go to work and 

 popularize the breed of Shorthorns. The Jersey men hold up to the public gaze 

 a cow giving thirty or forty pounds of butter a week. I say now, without the least 

 fear of contradiction, that if we were to quit breeding those little infernal bulls in ' 

 this State to-day, it would take twenty years to sweep out the evil they have done. 

 The .lersey cow will do very well in towns and cities, but those little bulls scattered 

 throughout the State, I would like to shoot down as I would a wolf. The Polled 

 cattle men are working with a will . These cattle and the Herefords are in the hands 

 of good men and making a place, and if the Shorthorn men lie still, as we are do- 

 ing now, they will ride right over us and we shall never catch up in the world. 



If you go to Chicago and see the cattle there, you will want to come home and 

 see how big you can grow your bullocks. We try to grow too much grain in this 

 State, when we should be turning our attention more to the raising of beef. Dr. 

 Stevenson, with his 1,800 to 2,0ti0 acres of land, was not making money by harvest- 

 ing grain, but he was making his money easily with cattle— as he once said to me, 

 " I get along very well with this little bucket of salt." These are my feelings in 

 regard to the Shorthorn interest. I have b. en grading some, but I am now aiming 

 to have nothing but pure bred cattle, and when I get a good herd I am going to 

 push them and get them ahead of evtrylhing else if I can. 



Judge Buckles. We have been neglecting our business too much. We should 

 have a few men who are willing to meet our adversaries on any field that may be 

 selected; if they beat us to-day let us beat them to-morrow. Another thing is to 

 get our agricultural men educated up to raise good stock. The only suggestion to 



