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earnest worker, striving for principles and facts, 

 rather than for greed and mammon. He had 

 been trying for years to induce the Farwells 

 to put Herefords on their great 3,000,000-acre 

 range in Texas, had contracted with -them (or 

 one of them) to furnish them a thousand bulls 

 at a fair price, when his difficulties overtook 

 him, and Mr. John V. Farwell bought the en- 

 tire herd at a song, singing it himself, and 

 figuratively buried it on the great Capitol 

 Ranch in Texas. No records were kept of the 

 increase, and so when recently it was deemed 

 advisable to restore the herd to the records. 



book will show that, beginning with Youatt, all 

 the books ever written on the breeds of cattle 

 have been biased toward and in favor of other 

 breeds. In Mr. Miller's work, we will have 

 the exploits of the breed portrayed by a Here- 

 ford advocate and breeder. I consider it a 

 godsend that in the ripeness of his years he 

 was spared with robust health, and keen, clear 

 intellect, thus to complete and round out his 

 work, and for the thousandth time again place 

 the Hereford breed and fraternity under lasting 

 obligations to him. 



The immediate cause of Mr. Miller's death 



ALBION (15027) 76960. 

 The great Enrlish sire and prize winner. (Photo from life.) 



only a few of the remaining old cows could be 

 identified, and thus it is that the blood of Mr. 

 Miller's Highland Herefords was largely sub- 

 merged in the flood derived from the latter 

 importations. 



Mr. Miller's last work was practically com- 

 pleted — a modern history of Hereford cattle. 

 This is a work of vast importance to the breed- 

 ers of Hereford cattle. It is the first authorita- 

 tive history of the Herefords ever written by a 

 loyal Hereford breeder. It is a labor of love. 

 Hereford breeders have too long taken their 

 literature from writers who are distinctively 

 at heart advocates of other breeds. Mr. Miller's 



was an accidental fall. He caught his heel in 

 the sidewalk and fell, never after gaining full 

 consciousness. Four children survive him. 

 Interment took place at Evanston, 111., from 

 the home of his daughter, on Sunday, March 

 18, 1900. I have, as President of the Amer- 

 ican Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association, re- 

 quested of the family the privilege for our 

 association of erecting the monument to mark 

 his last resting place — a duty and privilege 

 alike that is all that it is possible for us to do 

 for him as a last mark of our respect and appre- 

 ciation. — T. F. B. Sotham. in Breeders' Gazette, 

 March 21, 1900. 



