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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



more certain than that a radical change is neces- 

 sary or the usefulness of this particular sh6w 

 will cease. The practice of selecting local 

 judges cannot be successfully defended. As- 

 suming that judges chosen promiscuously from 

 districts from which exhibitors may come are 

 perfectly fair, yet, there remains cause of com- 

 plaint. The men thus chosen, in many cases, 

 being friends or acquaintances of exhibitors, 

 that fact of itself creates a feeling of distrust 

 which may or may not be warranted, and leaves 

 the door wide open for criticisms which would 

 not be possible if the judges were selected from 

 remote localities. This course would entail 

 quite an expense, no doubt, but associations 

 can better afford to close their doors without 

 a profit than to countenance any system by 

 which their usefulness and integrity can be im- 

 peached to the slightest extent, 



"It is said that the Illinois State Board, un- 

 der whose auspices the Fat Stock Show is con- 

 ducted, will, at their annual meeting, which oc- 

 curs this month, .take measures to quiet the dis- 



sensions that have heretofore existed by adopt- 

 ing some plan that will guarantee to exhibitors 

 the utmost fairness, based upon the test of 

 merit, and that alone. In this the Board will 

 be unanimously endorsed, and other Western 

 fair associations should adopt similar meas- 

 ures." 



After the appearance of the above article in 

 "The Tribune," at the meeting of the Illinois 

 State Board, the president, Mr. Scott, called the 

 attention of the Board, in his address, to the 

 necessity of procuring experts to serve as com- 

 mitteemen in making awards. 



It must be remembered that two-thirds of the 

 Board were Shorthorn breeders, and they had 

 friends outside, and that every move that was 

 made in the Board was known to these out- 

 siders. That President Scott was surrounded 

 with these men, and that they were determined 

 to hold the Shorthorns in position ; and, though 

 vastly outnumbered, there were men in the 

 Board that were desirous of having its methods 

 all that they should be. 



DIAGRAM OF BUTCHER'S CUTS. 



Explanation.— 1, neck; 2, chuck; .'i.rite; 4 aDfJ 5, plates; 6, shoulder-clod; 7, brisket; 8, shank; 9, short-loin or porterhouse ■ 



10, sirloin; 11, rump; 12, round; 13, flank; 14, lower-round. ' ' 



