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lowland hay. They were not large and not in 

 good condition. I turned them into a pasture 

 with a lot of two-year-olds, with no feed except 

 the pasture; I dressed the following December 

 (il6 and 633 pounds, and the finest beef I ever 

 tasted. What the live weight would have been, 

 I do not know. 



A few years after these bulls were brought 

 into our town, there was a great Shorthorn 

 fever, and bulls of that breed were introduced 

 and the Herefords neglected, and I never had 

 as fine steers, or saw as fine steers in our town 

 of the grade Shorthorn, as there were of the 

 Herefords, and I have heard several of our best 

 farmers make the same remark. 



I had several half-blood cows, some of them 

 very fine, but now and then would have one 

 that would not make good milk cows, but would 

 make nice beef. I am, with most of the farmers 

 in Addison County, engaged in breeding Merino 

 sheep, and at present prices it is for our in- 

 terest to devote the most of our energies in 

 this direction. But the Champlain Valley in 

 our county is as fine grazing for cattle as any 

 section in the country, and I shall be, pleased 

 to see Herefords again introduced. 



The chromo of eight premium Herefords 

 you wrote of sending me, I have not received; 

 shall be pleased to receive one. 



Yours trulv, Henry Lane. 



MR. CORNING a NEW YORK EXPERIENCE. 



The following letter 

 'Breeders' Journal" : 



written to the 



Corning Farm, Albanv, N. 

 May 15, 1882. 



Y. 



Mr. Editor : 



In your article on Wm. Henry Sotham, Esq., 

 I noticed an assertion upon which I should like 

 to throw some light and which I expected Mr. 

 Sotham would do in the following May number 

 of the "Journal." Paragraph No. 2, second col- 

 umn, page 194, states: "Recognizing these 

 facts the Shorthorn breeders made special 

 eft'orts to detach Mr. Corning from the Here- 

 ford interest and were finally successful." 



To be sure, they were by their efi^orts suc- 

 cessful in proving to Mr. Corning the superior- 

 ity of the Hereford to the Shorthorn. 



Many of Mr. Coming's friends were inter- 

 ested in Shorthorns at that time, and when he 

 took a fancy to the Herefords, they endeavored 

 to detach him from whatever favorable views 

 he had of them, but being a very practical gen- 

 tleman, he resolved to test the merits of the two 

 breeds himself, by a trial under conditions he 

 knew would be perfectly just and similar to 

 both breeds. At that time Mr. Corning owned 

 a choice herd of Shorthorns, and these with the 

 Herefords were bred from, fed and killed, both 



A SAMPLE OF COL. C, C. SLAUGHTER'S (DALLAS, TEX.) LAZY "S" BRAND, NORTH TEXAS. 



