HISTOEY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



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CHAPTER XL. 



Letters 



FROM : 



T. L. MiLLEK, 1881. 

 W. Danger, 1879. 

 S. C. Skidmoee, 1880. 

 Geo. Leigh, 1880. 



(Jeo. T. Turner, 1880. 

 Thos. Ddckham, 1880. 

 H. M. Vaile, 1881. 

 J. C. Wilson, 1881. 

 Dakota, 1881. 

 John Merryman, 1881. 

 James Funkhouser, 1884. 

 Hugh Ckaig, 1884. 

 S. D. Fisher, 1884. 



Theodore Whyte, 1884. 

 c. m. culbertson, 1885. 



MR. MILLER'S POSITION. 



The following is an open letter from T. L. 

 Miller to the "Farmer's Magazine" of Ken- 

 tucky (1881) : 



It is satisfactory when another states your 

 position, if he shall do it correctly; but the 

 editor of the "Farmers Magazine," in his edi- 

 torial entitled "What will he do with it?" is not 

 exactly fair in giving me a position, or in stat- 

 ing that position, but on this point we will not 

 quarrel. 



The Hereford breeders have not been block- 

 heads. They have attended to the breeding of 

 their stock, and have produced a race of cattle 

 that have held the top price, both with the 

 grazier and butcher. The breeding intelligence 

 and practical brains have not been with the 

 Shorthorns. The agricultural societies and 

 press have been controlled in the interest of the 

 Shorthorns, and that control has not been fairly 

 obtained, because they have been organized and 

 managed, as stated in the preamble, for the 

 purpose of bringing forth the best, while they 

 have been worked to advance the Shorthorn in- 

 terest. 



"The press and the agricultural societies were 



FROM : 



D. P. Williams, 1886. 

 W. S. Ikard, 1886-87. 

 F. 0. Skidmoee, 1886. ' 

 F. W. Smith, 1882. 

 W. E. Campbell, 1882. 

 Henet Lane, 1883. 

 James W. Cox, 1883. 

 H. Bowen, 1883. 



Kennedy Bros., 1882. 

 Cephalus Black, 1883. 

 Amos Bissell, 1883. 

 H. C. Burleigh, 1886. 

 P. Mehan, 1886. 

 A. M. White, 1886. 



taken covertly and l)y storm in the interest of 

 Bates or Booth, and wrong was made, to look 

 right and right wrong." This is a fair state- 

 ment of my position, and T propose to prove it 

 by the record. 



.Again you say: "Those who have observed 

 Mr. Miller closely, as we have done, must be 

 impressed with the contempt he manifests for 

 all those who think differently from him." 



There are writers m the interest of the Short- 

 horns who are forever pointing to the past his- 

 tory of the Shorthorns as an evidence of merit, 

 as certain persons are pointing to the history 

 of their parents or grandparents, or great- 

 grandparents as an evidence of their ability. 

 For such I have no great respect. I think if 

 you will go back in tlie Shorthorn historv to 

 1817, that time of the Sanders and Clav im- 

 portations, and follow the breeding of those 

 cattle through their crosses, you will find that 

 the Hereford blood in that importation and 

 their produce, went a long way towards giving 

 to the Kentucky cattle the character they have 

 had in the past times. You will find to this 

 time those markings that denote Hereford 

 blood ; and you will find that with these mark- 

 ings there is a quality that I claim belongs to 

 the Herefords. Now there is no question but 



