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Beau Eeal was reinforced by Mr. J. S. Hawes' 

 herd headed by Fortune (U 349). Mr. Jackson 

 and Mr. Miedlin also had winning Herefords, 

 Shockey & Gibb's young herd gaining the 

 sweepstakes over all breeds. 



The Iowa Hereford Cattle Co., under the 

 management of Henry Yeomans (1|350), 

 Shockey & Gibb, of Kansas, Fowler & A^an 

 Natta of Indiana, Moffatt & Sons and Wm. A. 

 Tade (1| 352) of Iowa, put up an excellent ex- 

 hibit at the Iowa State Fair. 



The Tenth Annual Amekican Fat Stock 

 Show, 1887. 



In the three-year-old ring, grades and crosses, 

 22 entries, third prize was awarded to Mr. Ned 

 Price (Hereford). In the same class for 

 yearlings there were thirty-one entries, first 

 sweepstake premium awarded to Fowler & Van 

 Natta, grade Hereford. In the calf ring of 

 twelve entries Mr. Price taking .first, second to 

 Fowler & Van Natta, and Mr. Funkhouser the 

 third premium (all Herefords). In the 

 dressed carcasses for the greatest percentage of 

 profitable meat, premium was awarded to Here- 

 fords. 



And so we close an incomplete but repre- 

 sentative resume of Hereford winnings at the 

 period when we closed out our Herefords, retir- 

 ing to the more favorable climate of Florida. 



We had made a good fight, the merit of the 

 Hereford was by this time acknowledged in 

 every part of our country — not only to equal 

 the Shorthorn but to surpass it. The Here- 

 fords had been defrauded of their birthright, 

 but we had forced a restoration. About 

 this tinte the fight had been well nigh 

 whipped out of the opposition, and finding they 

 could no longer control the agricultural socie- 

 ties, the opposition began to use its influence 

 subtilely to do away with the contests between 

 breeds. No Hereford man ever advocated a 

 cessation of the contests between breeds and so 

 long as their opponents could fully control the 

 judging just so long they were anxious to con- 

 tinue these contests. It was not until the Here- 

 ford began to get a measure of justice that the 

 Shorthorn men began to carp of the fruitless- 

 ness of such contests. Journals that were 

 formerly proud to proclaim themselves the 

 official exponents of Shorthorn lore, were forced 

 by the onward march of the Hereford to take 

 on the semblance of neutrality, but it cannot be 

 gainsaid that they have used their powerful 

 influence to prevent these competitions between 

 breeds that were being more and more coii- 

 clusivelv settled in favor of the Herefords. 



Some weak-kneed Hereford men, unhappily 

 for the Hereford breed, will get seated in tlie 

 powerful and controlling positions of the 

 American Hereford Society. They are willing 

 to take every advantage of the work of more 

 intelligent and aggressive Hereford advocates, 

 and at the same time covertly belittle the work 

 of those advocates to the opposition, while suing 

 to meet personal ends, for the opposition's 

 influence and favor. Such treacherv is sure to 

 react on politic self-seekers in the future, just 

 as similar double dealing has reacted on their 

 ilk in the past. 



What is the objection to the competition be- 

 tween breeds ? We reiterate that no true Here- 

 ford man desired or desires to abolish these 

 contests, and we repeat that no Shorthorn man 

 demanded their cessation so long as the Short- 

 horn interest controlled the awarding, of the 

 premiums. "A fair field and no favors" is all 

 the Hereford ever asked, and when at last it be- 

 gins to come within his reach the Shorthorn 

 interest interposes its power and stops breed 

 contests. To give the demands for a cessation 

 of breed contests a semblance of impartiality, 

 they must chiefly come from seemingly neutral 

 sources and so the subtle methods of the past 

 are not abandoned, but having proclaimed itself 

 neutral, the Shorthorn press that wore its collar 

 openly in days past, but wearing it secretly in 

 the heart still, comes forth with the trunlped up 

 claim: "Breed contests engender ill feeling, 

 they settle nothing, ror prove anything, one 



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 Bred by T. L. Miller. 



breed wins at one show and at the next the 

 award is reversed. One year one breed wins 

 most and the next year favors another breed. 

 And so it proves nothing for either to win. Let 

 us have peace and let each breed develop 

 within itself." 



Pretty argument this, but we know its crafti- 

 ness and deceit. What does it prove within the 



