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HISTORY or HEREFORD CATTLE 



them for support. We won't support any jour- 

 nal that is not wholly in the interest of our 

 breed." Their patronage was large, and it had 

 the influence they desired. 



But the time came when they could not ig- 

 nore the Hereford claims. They must meet 

 the issue, and in their usual manner they did. 

 Mr. Anderson, of Kentucky, opened the ball. 

 On Nov. 1, 1880, he says:' "The effusions of 



T. EDWARDS, 

 Wintercott, Herefordshire. 



T. L. Miller (the Hereford advocate) appearing 

 from time to time in the agricultural press of 

 the country, have puzzled me not a little to 

 discover why a gentleman of his sense and evi- 

 dent research, casting aside as if for naught 

 the experience of the British farmer, and of the 

 older states of our nation, could prefer the 

 Herefords (with their heavy necks, heads, fore- 

 quarters and light hind-quarters), to the Short- 

 horn, with his well nigh universally admitted 

 superiority for any purpose whatever, for which 

 the cattle kind is intended." 



The above is Mr. Anderson's opening of the 

 fight ; and we wish the reader to note especially 

 the date of this letter. H was written on the 

 first day of November, 1880 ; and we wish to 



call attention to another fact : that the Fat 

 Stock Show opened on the 11th to receive 

 stock, and on the 15th to receive visitors. 

 These dates you will fix clearly in your minds, 

 and we wish Shorthorn breeders as well as 

 Hereford breeders to take note of this — and 

 not only Hereford and Shorthorn breeders, but 

 farmers of England and this nation to note the 

 fact, for we propose to make a case that had its 

 origin at Side View Farm ( One-side View, may 

 we say), a case that will stamp Mr. Anderson as 

 a conspirator. 



After they had got Mr. Watson away, and 

 magnified his fancied grievances against me, 

 the conspirators wrote severally to the "Kansas 

 City Indicator" several communications, to 

 which I replied as follows in the same paper, 

 in a communication addressed to the editor: 



"I have vour journal with Anderson's letters 

 of 21st and 28th, and Watson's letter of 28th. 

 Passing Watson's letter with the statement that 

 his remarks, as a whole and in detail, are false : 



"Mr. Anderson, after all his discharge of 

 billingsgate, closes his letter of the 28th with 

 the statement that the real question at issue is, 

 that Miller's show cattle had Shorthorn dams 

 and Shorthorn grandams, and with the denial 

 of there being any Shorthorn conspiracy. 



"I accept these issues. I gave in the April 

 number of the 'Breeders' Live Stock Journal,' 

 and 'National Live Stock Journal,' the 

 breeding of 'Conqueror's' dam ; she was got by 

 Parson's Hereford bull 'Fairboy' ; grandam got 

 by Devon bull, nearly full blood ; great-grandam 

 got by Hereford bull; great-great-grandam, a 

 red cow of unknown breeding. Will Mr. An- 

 derson find the proportion of Shorthorn blood? 

 a 196) 



"The age of 'Conqueror' was stated substan- 

 tially correct. He was one of four grades, two- 

 year-olds, one of which, 'Putnam,' was showed 

 in 1879 as a yearling, and his age was stated by 

 Mr. Morgan as one year old, July 12, 1879. He 

 weighed at the 1879 show 1,152 pounds; and 

 'Conqueror' was estimated at that time to 

 weigh 1,000 pounds, and was the younger steer 

 as my recollection serves me, and his weight 

 would indicate this. 



" 'Kansas' was exhibited as a yearling on the 

 record of his mouth; he had a yearling mouth, 

 and did not change until December. This is 

 all I know of him. The other two steers were 

 from common cows. Mr. W. E. Campbell, of 

 Caldwell, Kansas, and Mr. A. B. Matthews, of 

 Kansas City, have both seen the cows and can 

 testify as to how much of Shorthorn character 

 they carry. Mr. Fielding W. Smith, of Wood- 

 ■landville;, Mo., has also seen the cows, and I 



