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and a]tli()ii!:;li only kcjit m ^'ood str)ri' condition 

 tlicy arc as good and wcll-lircd as any herd. 

 'J'lic good cxaiiij)lc he has always set, in sliowmg 

 his cattle in natural sliape is an excellent one, 

 and tlie judges had the practical soundness to 

 see their situation against pampered ones, hence 

 his success in the show ring. I hope we are fast 

 coining to this legitimate state of things; the 

 country would profit much by it. (|| 105) 



Mr. Coming showed a fat heifer at the New 

 York State Fair last fall against a dozen Sliort- 

 horns. She took first prize and was considered 

 by all who saw her a perfect beauty. At Christ- 

 mas she was killed, ami some weeks since an 



appropriate poem 

 was written of her 

 by a butcher boy 

 who admired her 

 attractive ajipear- 

 anc(^ ; the poem was 

 copied into the 

 "Drover's .Jour- 

 nal." The butcher 

 who killed iier, Mr. 

 d. Battersby, told 

 nie that she was the 

 iicst carcass of lieef 

 he ever cut up ; not 

 only was she of 

 most excellent 

 quality, but steaks 

 cut from her neck 

 vein were beautifully marbled and fit to 

 serve his first-class customers — better even than 

 the choice steak of many other animals. 



Plow many times such truths have been told 

 to ine by other butchers, under similar circum- 

 stances, and of equal standing as Mr. Batters- 

 by, whose father was one of the prominent 

 butchers in Albany for the past forty years. 

 No man killed better meat, for which he had 

 a high reputation, and his customers were of the 

 highest class. His son is following his good 

 example, and I value his testimony, so fully 

 corroborating that of many others of a like prac- 

 tical soundness. 



PART IX. 



Before going further into the Herefords, I 

 must give vou an additional insight into what 

 I had to go through with in the Bates mania, 

 of which, as I have told you before, Lewis F. Al- 

 len, Ambrose Stevens (who were called twin 

 brothers) and John R. Page were the leading 

 proselytes to that injurious imposition that so 

 much injured the Shorthorn cause. I pro- 



A. n. BULLTS, 

 WINNEBAGO CITY. MINN. 



iiounced this trio "the three flunkies" to induce 

 iiien of means to join the hue and crv of iancy 

 and fashion that had taken possession of all 

 who belonged to it. 



The first wrot(; a book on the different breeds 

 of cattle, to (;xtol the Shorthorns, and did not 

 only overstretch his ability in the task, but 

 made gross misrepresentations, one must sup- 

 pose purposely, to mislead. All who had pa- 

 tience to get at all interested in the work, and 

 read his history of the Shorthorns and Here- 

 fords, could 8e(^ his aim to effect high favor to 

 the former, and create a panic against the lat- 

 ter, both of which he grossly and, I think, in- 

 tentionally, misrepresented. The case was so 

 plain to every unprejudiced reader that my at- 

 tention was called to it by several g;entlemen, 

 among whom were some of the best Shorthorn 

 breeders. I had an intimate knowledge of the 

 writer's character, so I did not look into his 

 book until my friends strongly advised me, and 

 then the comparison between these two valuable 

 breeds was all I had the patience to investi- 

 gate. Fancy and fashion are capable of leading 

 even the best men astray, and Lewis F. Allen 

 did everything he was capalile of doing to pro- 

 mote both of these delusions. 



The second man was an adventurer precisely 

 of the same calibre as the first ; they were called 

 "twin brothers," as they constantly coupled 

 their visionary brains together, to support the 

 fancy and fashion adopted to boost the "Bates 

 mania." This was their hobby and they ex- 

 pected to reapi their reward from the profit 

 made by the Bates clan, but, like all such the- 

 ories and profitless scheming, the bubble burst, 

 which all who read can prove. He was the man 

 who rewrote the fictitious Shorthorn compila- 

 tion called history, to defeat the facts published 

 by Rev. Henry Berry, but his misrepresenta- 

 tions soon found him out, and the Rev. Henry 

 Berry's unpleasant truths now stand as firmlv 

 as if this misjudged prodigal had not so 

 thoughtlessly interfered. 



Still further this notorious Batesite brought 

 out from the Bates herd of such notoriety the 

 bull Duke of Cambridge. Stevens, after a long 

 and familiar stay at Mr. Bates' house, had per- 

 suaded Bates that he (Stevens) was the great 

 "I am" of the Shorthorn fraternity; thus pre- 

 possessed. Bates presented him with" this "Noble 

 Duke of Cambridge" as a memento of his kind- 

 ness in so strongly supporting the Bates cause 

 in America, the urgency for continuance of 

 which Bates had strenuously instilled into the 

 anxious mind of this supposed exalted breeder. 



The bull arrived here with others from an- 

 other breeder, of which I shall hereafter give q 



