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beef they will buy no other, and the only way 

 to get them accustomed to it is for all the 

 breeders to do as Messrs. Fowler & Van Natta 

 did^send their grades to market. 



OLD BLOOD IF VERMONT. 



We make the following extract from a letter 

 received in 1882, from Mr. Henry Lane, of 

 Cornwall, Vt. : "I saw at Mr. 0. S. Bliss', of 

 Georgia, in this state, a very fine oil chromo 

 of Herefords, which pleases me. Thirty-eight 

 years ago I went with two of my townsmen to 

 Albany, N. Y., to see Corning & Sotham's herd 

 of Herefords, and we purchased two bulls that 

 were brought into this town and the stock from 

 them made the finest beef cattle we have ever 

 had." 



Commenting on this letter in the "Breeders' 

 Journal" (p. 392, 1882) : 



We take pleasure in calling attention to this 

 testimony, as showing that the work of Mr. 

 Sotham forty years ago comes to us to aid in 

 our work. There is no way in which Vermont 

 and New England farmers can advance the 

 farming interest of those states so well as by the 

 introduction of Hereford cattle. Two years 

 ago we sold a bull and some heifers to go to 

 Mr. H. 0. McKnight, of Locust HiU, Penn. 

 Mr. McKnight, after two years and six months' 

 experience, returned here last week and bought 

 of the T. L. Miller Co., the Hereford cow, 

 Hampton Olive 3d, and a Hereford bull calf 

 from British Lady, the mother of T. L. Miller's 

 heifer Prairie Flower. Mr. McKnight's experi- 

 ence has given him the fullest confidence in the 

 Herefords as a good butter dairy cow and beef 

 breed. The bull purchased by Mr. McKnight 

 in 1879, was by Success, and has proved a 

 duplicate of the old bull. His purchase now 

 is a young bull by Winter de Cote; it will be 

 recollected that Winter de Cote was bred by 

 Mrs. S. Edwards, and is a brother of the cele- 

 brated Hereford cow Leonora. The cow Hamp- 

 ton Olive was bred by J. H. Arkwright, of 

 Hampton Court, Leominster, England, and im- 

 ported by the T. L. Miller Co. in 1880. The 

 price paid for the cow and calf was $900. 

 This gives Mr. McKnight a herd of some twelve 

 females, all thoroughbred and very choice ani- 

 mals. Besides these he has a large number of 

 grades, among them yearling steers weighing 

 about 1,000 pounds. We call attention here to 

 Mr. McKnight's experience, showing, in con- 

 nection with our extract from our Vermont cor- 

 respondent, what farmers in an ordinary prac- 

 tice of dairv and stock business can do. 



Vermont can breed Hereford grades, making 

 a very good butter cow of the heifers, while 

 the steers will sell to the butcher at from twelve 

 to eighteen months old at $75 or more. Men 

 who, like Mr. Lane, have had an old-time ex- 

 perience with Herefords, will recognize the cor- 

 rectness of our predictions. The grade steers 

 that we have now, 84 months old, would sell 

 in Chicago for $100 per head. 



KANSAS IN EARNEST. 



Editor "Journal" : 



I had my white faces at the Wichita, Kansas, 

 fair again this year and "downed the Short- 

 horns" worse than ever. The Shorthorn breed- 

 ers made their usual amount of "wind pudding" 

 and abused the white faces as usual, but to no 

 purpose. They wanted to show for "big money" 

 they said; so I proposed to show "The Equi- 

 nox" against 'any Shorthorn bull they could 

 bring against him at any time during the week 

 for $1,000 cash, and if they wished they could 

 increase it to $5,000, and I would put up $1,000 

 forfeit just to accommodate them and put the 

 ball in motion, but these "high-toned" gentle- 

 men preferred eating their own words rather 

 than losing their money and meeting inevitable 

 defeat. The following clipping gives what 

 stock I had there : 



"Mr. W. E. Campbell, of Caldwell, Kan., had 

 on exhibition fifteen head of his famous Here- 

 fords, among which was noticed the bull Equi- 

 nox, jSTo. 2758, weighing 1,920 pounds, two 

 years old. Mr. C. values this animal at $1,500, 

 which he has refused. Among his exhibit was 

 the Duke of Rosewood, the Queen of the Lillies 

 by Prince Royal, Ella 3d, Mermaid, Jessamine 

 by Miller's Success, Empress by Emperor, all of 

 which are two years old. The yearling. Third 

 Duchess of Somerset, by Emperor, was also 

 among the collection. Mr. Campbell has over 

 6,000 head of stock on the range in southern 

 Kansas and the Indian Territory. Mr. Camp- 

 bell ofEered to show his bull Equinox for a 

 grand special sweepstakes prize of $1,000 cash, 

 open to exhibitors of both fair associations, but 

 the offer was not accepted." 



And the following from the "'Caldwell Com- 

 mercial" of September 14, 1882 : 



"Our friend, W. E. Campbell, the great Here- 

 ford and Shorthorn breeder of Sumner Countv, 

 better known as Shorthorn Campbell — to dis- 

 tinguish him from the numerous other Camp- 

 bells, imported nearly or remotely from the land 

 of oaten cakes — visited both fairs with his 

 Herefords, and we are pleased to state, captured 

 the class premiums and carried off the sweep- 



