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H I S T K Y OF H E R E F ED CATTLE 



only ordinary care up to a few months previous 

 to the Fat Stock Show of 1880, should take 

 sweepstakes over the pampered thoroughbreds 

 and grade Shorthorns of the blue grass regions 

 for the best steer one year old and under two. 

 At this time ''Kansas" was 696 days old and 

 weighed 1,580 lbs., his average gain per day 



WILLIAM TTJDGE. 

 Adforton, Herefordshire. 



being 2.27 lbs. (See "National Live Stock 

 Journal," December, 1880.) 



Trusting this will be sufHeient explanation 

 to set at rest this cry of fraud against the steer 

 "Kansas," one^of the five premium grade Here- 

 ford steers, we will leave the charge against 

 the steer "A¥iH" for other parties to ex'plain why 

 he did not make more than 724 days in age 

 from Xovember 10, 1879, to November 7, 

 1881. Walter M. Morgan & Son. 



We were awarded and still have in our pos- 

 session the gold medal offered by the "Farmer's 

 Eeview," of Chicago, 111., for the best yearling 

 in the Fat Stock S^how at Chicago, 1880. We 

 won it with the Hereford yearling steer "Kan- 

 sas." The following remarks were called forth 

 from Mr. W. W. Corbett, editor of the "Farm- 

 er's Eeview," bv that occasion: "Mr. Milh-r: 

 I do not know how long the dream of be- 

 coming a farmer and stock breeder had haunt- 



ed your iTiind before you entered upon the 

 career; I do not know how long you had 

 made a study of the characteristics of the 

 different breeds of cattle, and of principles 

 upon which successful breeding and feeding 

 depend, but I do know, that it is not very many 

 years ago that I saw you almost daily in the 

 streets of Chicago, elbowing your way through 

 the crowds with the same determined look 

 upon your face that you wear to-day, but the 

 silver that now tints your hair was then hidden 

 away in your pocket, if you had it at all. You 

 were then piroseciiting an intricate business in 

 the midst of hundreds of the shrewdest, most 

 active and energetic rnen, who have amassed 

 great fortunes, and done so much to build this 

 wonderful city, and give to it its commercial 

 reputation. You won a most commendable 

 business reputation, and I believe a comfort- 

 able fortune. The next I knew of you, you had 

 purchased a magnificent farm at Beecher (1J1G3) 

 and were preparing to stock it. You did not 

 know as much about Herefords then as you do 

 to-day. But there was among your advertis- 

 ers that stalwart old Hereford hero, our old 

 friend Sotbam, v/ho, with pen and tongue, had 

 been fighting an unsuccessful battle for many 

 years against rival interests. Let us give the 

 scarred old veteran the credit of directing your 

 enthusiastic efforts into this channel. Then 

 you took off your coat and went to work. Y''our 

 business tact and shrewdness you took into a 

 new field. You took all your pertinacity and 

 eombativeness. At the time of your first pur- 

 chase, the white face and symmetrical body of 

 the Hereford was a curiosity at a Western Fair. 

 You boldly entered the arena and threw down 

 the gauntlet to a nolde race of animals, owned 

 and backed by the money and the brains of as 

 shrewd and able a body of men as grace any 

 pursuit in any country. I mean the Shorthorn 

 breeders of the L'nited States. And now vour 

 favorite breed is known to all men, and vour 

 animals march proudly from every noted fair 

 ground bedecked with tlie blue and the red. 



"I know tliat your determination and eom- 

 bativeness have led you into many a wordy con- 

 flict. A great many people tlijnk that "^ you do 

 protest too much,' and I have no doubt your 

 name will go down to Shorthorn posterity as 

 the Great American Protester. But after all, 

 I do not believe that there is a competitor of 

 yours here to-night but will willingly pav trib- 

 ute to the grand contest you liave made and the 

 victories you have won. 



"You, with your able coadjutors, Powell, Mor- 

 gan and Culbertson and many others who have 

 miore recently enlisted in the service, can retire 



