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"This was referred and the committee made 

 the following report : 



" 'To the State Board of Agriculture : Your 

 committee to whom was referred the communi- 

 cation of Mr. D. M. Moninger, of Galvin, la., 

 would beg leave to report that they have 

 duly considered the matter; that as no formal 

 protest has been entered against the entries 

 made by him as prescribed by the published 

 rules, no action of the Board should be taken, 

 and the committee recommend that the com- 

 munication be placed on tile with other papers 

 in the case. 



J. Irving Peaece, 

 John P. Reynolds, 

 John Virgin, 



Committee.' 



"There is but little to Mr. Moninger's state- 

 ment beyond what his entries would show. He 

 says a sworn statement of the ages of the steers 

 named, with others shown in the herd, is in the 

 hands of the Secretary of the Iowa State Board 

 of Agriculture. It would have been well if Mr. 

 Moninger could have had a sworn copy of these 

 statements. In reference to the steer Tom 

 Brown, Mr. M. seems to think 'it was his back 

 instead of his teeth that was troublesome to 

 competitors of the squealing kind.' This, we 

 think, is the only reference that Mr. M. makes 

 to the fact that a three-year-old steer carried 

 eight teeth with evidence of absorption already 

 commenced. After some considerable general 

 talk about this steer, the judges and the parties 

 who know something about him in the show 

 ring, we would call attention to the fact that 

 Mr. M. states that Tom Brown received his 

 name some time after those exhibits were made, 

 which may or may not be a convenient way of 

 covering his identity. 



"As to Grinnell, a two-year-old steer, he does 

 not undertake to explain how he could grow 

 eight teeth while he was only entitled, accord- 

 ing to standard authorities, to four. We 

 wish to call special attention to the remark in 

 Mr. Moninger's statement in reference to this 

 steer, 'that he was one of five steers of remark- 

 able similarity, and he was not so easily dis- 

 tinguished from his mates.' But he suggests 

 that he can prove his age by a man that has 

 known him from a calf. It would have been 

 well for Mr. Moninger to have produced this 

 testimony. General statements are not as easily 

 refuted as certificates giving age by dates, and 

 sworn statements, if not true, subject a man 

 to charge of perjury. 



"As to the steer, Iowa Champion, No. 112, 

 he gives no explanation as to how he could have 



grown SIX teeth when entitled to only two. 

 There are some general statements made about 

 the steer Champion No. 102. 



"On the whole, the statement that Mr. Mon- 

 inger makes will hardly convince anyone that 

 his entries as made at the Fat Stock Show were 

 truthful. But he promises some further data, 

 and we defer any further notice of this reply 

 until his case is made and placed on record. 



"Mr. Moninger undertakes to draw attention 

 from his case by reviving the charges of Tom 

 Corwin Anderson, in 1880. We met these at 

 the time, we believe satisfactorily to everybody 

 who took any interest in the case, and 

 especially to Mr. Anderson. We hope when 

 Mr. Moninger has his affidavits prepared they 

 wiU be in such shape that they will have 

 some value in and of themselves, and that they 

 may contain some explanation as to how such 

 abnormal teeth developments may be secured. 



"The committee in reporting upon this state- 

 ment, say that as no formal protest has been 

 entered against the entries made by him (Mf. 

 D. M. Moninger), as described by the published 

 rules, no action should be taken, and the com- 

 mittee recommend that the communication 

 be placed on file with other papers in the case. 

 Mr. Miller has never undertaken to make any 

 protest; each and every time that he has come 

 before President Scott or the Board he has 

 stated distinctly that he has come to advise the 

 Board of facts, and not as a protestor." 



On page 86 of A^ol. 4 of the "Breeders' 

 Journal," appears the following humorous bur- 

 lesque, written by an unknown Kansas corre- 

 spondent (thought to be W. E. Campbell), 

 which shows so thorough an appreciation of the 

 truth of the case that it cannot be left out of 

 this history. 



TRIAL OF p. M. MONINGER. 



'"Editor 'Journal": 



"You will probably find the following of 

 interest to your readers : 



"D. M. Moninger, the great Shorthorn 

 breeder of Iowa, and the exhibitor of the 

 crimson herd of Shorthorns at the leading 

 Western Fairs last fall, was arraigned in Chi- 

 cago before the Court of Public Opinion at 

 the November Term, Judge Breeders presid- 

 ing, J. H. Gazette appearing for the defense 

 and T. L. Whiteface for the prosecution. 



"The indictment charged the prisoner with 

 frauds perpetrated upon the public, and of ob- 

 taining moneys and valuable premiums by false 

 pretenses and misrepresentations to and before 

 the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, on or 



