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day, except young Potts, and with him only 

 passed the civilities of acquaintanceship, nor 

 did I think anything more specially concerning 

 Millers Herefords until I saw his puffs and 

 blowings in the press, claiming all in all for 

 the Herefords and ranting concerning the Fat 

 Stock Show, when I reminded him of the 

 Shorthorn relationship of his cattle, and that 

 the Shorthorns deserved part of the praise. 

 (II 197) On his denying my assertion of the 

 Shorthorn relationship of his cattle, I wrote 

 for the first time in February to Mr. Watson, 

 reminding him of the breeding of Miller's cat- 

 tle as he had told me at the Fat Stock Show, 

 and requesting him to put in black and white 

 his statement concerning the breeding as made 

 to me at the show in presence of Ogilvie and 

 Bigstaff, as Miller had denied the same pub- 

 licly. I sent his letter under cover to a promi- 

 nent man in Chicago, for him to mail to 

 Watson, believing if Mr. Miller should get Wat- 

 son's mail and see a letter post-marked Ken- 

 tucky, he would not deliver it, as a man who 

 will deny the breeding of his cattle is not above 

 tampering with private letters. Mr. Watson 

 answered this letter in due course of mail, re- 

 affirming the Shorthorn breeding of Miller's 

 cattle and added about their being exhibited 

 under false age. 



This is the unvarnished statement of the 

 whole affair and concerning which T. L. Miller 

 cries bribery, conspiracy, etc. No man on earth 

 ever heard or did I ever offer Mr. Watson one 

 cent or any other amount of money, directly 

 or indirectly, position, emolument, or anything 

 else, for the consideration that he would tell 

 me this or that concerning T. L. Miller's or 

 any other man's cattle. Any other statement 

 and from any other source whatever, that con- 

 flicts with the above in regard to the way I 

 got my information concerning the Shorthorn 

 relationship of the cattle which T. L. Miller, 

 "Beecher," Will County, 111., exhibited at Chi- 

 cago, last November, is a falsehood out of 

 whole cloth and the retailer of it a slanderer 

 per se. Yours with respect, 



Thos. Coewin Anderson. 



It will be noticed that his aim in this article 

 is to show that he had no special thought of 

 Miller or the Herefords. and that it was the 

 merest accident that he should be at the show. 

 Comparing this apology with his letter of 

 Nov. 1, 1880, as follows: 



Side View, Montgomery Co., Ky., 

 November 1, 1880. 

 Editor Kansas City "Indicator" : 



The effusions of 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 a reason why a 

 gentleman of his sense and evident research, 

 casting aside as for naught the experience of 

 the British farmers and the farmers of the 

 older states of our own 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. 



His letter of the 19th in your issue of Octo- 

 ber 28, just received, makes it perfectly clear, 

 however, when he says, "There is not a promi- 

 nent Shorthorn herd in America that can fur- 

 nish milk enough to raise their own calves"; 

 that it is a piece of ignorance on his part; or 

 that his expression is father to his own wish, 

 in these respects. To illustrate, Mt. Sterling, 

 Ky., and within a radius of ten miles, probably 

 contains a larger number of Shorthorns than 

 any other equal extent of territory in America, 



GEO. LEIGH, 

 Aurora, 111. 



yet so far from Mr. Miller's assertion being 

 true, it is just to the contrary; for there is not 

 only not a nurse cow in any one of the herds, 

 but the cows raise their own calves, and in 

 many cases the cows have to be stripped after 

 the calves have done nursing, from the fact 

 that the calves cannot take all the milk. Can 

 Mr. Miller say so much for his much puffed 



