DEDICATION. 7 



leading advocates, who believe that additional in- 

 formation as to the rise and progress of the breed 

 can be distributed with advantage to the American 

 cattle trade in general and to the Hereford interest 

 in particular. Its preparation has had to go for- 

 ward in addition to other work of a more or less 

 exacting character. It is of course imperfect. Er- 

 rors and omissions are almost certain to creep into 

 the first edition of a work necessarily made up of 

 a maze of facts, names, dates and records of various 

 kinds. If injustice has in any case been done it is 

 not with any such intent. The writer desires above 

 everything else to be always fair and just and to 

 set tilings down in their right relation. Whatever 

 may be its merits or its faults, this volume is dedi- 

 cated to the Hereford cattle growers of the United 

 States as a slight expression of appreciation of con- 

 tinuous courtesies extended by them during a long 

 series of years. 



The Authob. 

 Chicago, 1914. 



