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of the Shorthorn breed, and that both of them 

 have acknowledged that they knew nothing of 

 the Hereford breed, one of them stating to 

 myself that he did not know anything aljout 

 Herefords, whether they were good for milk or 

 anytliing else, and that the other (Mr. Roberts) 

 made substantially the same statement to Mr. 

 R. L. Plouston. 



"3. That the Shorthorn bull that said com- 

 mittee awarded the second sweepstakes pre- 

 mium, entered the ring displaying a hhu; rib- 

 bon in token of a first premium in his class, 

 and, although his attendant was requested to 



my business and paid no further attention to it. 

 But the Shorthorn men were better posted than 

 I (this being my first experience, I admit I 

 was not prepared to meet all the tricks), and 

 |)ut their heads together, selected Mr. Ross and 

 Mr. Blakeley (my competitor), to go before the 

 Board and defeat my protest at all hazards. I 

 had left the grounds when the Board met and 

 th(! Shorthorn men supposed the field was clear. 

 But as I could not be found, my friend, the 

 Hon. John Kelley, who is also the vice-president 

 of the society, took notes, and after the objec- 

 tions were heard, championed the white-face 



■ROUND-UP" ON THE RANGE. 



remove the same, said display was continued 

 throughout the entire showing for sweepstakes 

 honors, contrary to all rules, regulations and 

 customs governing such exhibitions and may 

 have had an influence upon the aforesaid sweep- 

 stakes awarding committee. 



"4. That Section 30, of Rules and Regula- 

 tions, adopted by your society for the govern- 

 ment of sweepstakes, was wholly ignored and 

 disregarded by the aforesaid awarding commit- 

 tee, which is evidence of their incompetency 

 to act as judges upon sweepstakes, or of doing 

 willful justice." 



After filing the above protest, 1 went about 



cause. The protest was sustained, and a new 

 committee ordered to be chosen. The Short- 

 horn exhibitors ruled off quite a number of 

 committeemen, but finally three were selected. 

 Two of them I had never seen before. One 

 was a city butcher; one an Englishman, who 

 had extended experience in England, New Zea- 

 land and this country; the other was an old 

 feeder and shipper, and none of the three were 

 interested in any breed of cattle. A number 

 of the Shorthorn breeders pledged themselves 

 not to bring their cattle into the ring again, 

 which caused considerable delay and excite- 

 ment. But the superintendent enforced the 



