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ford bull Sir Charles, and Snell remarked that he 

 was "glad that bull had' left the country as he 

 had always given him a lot of trouble." He was 

 not afraid of the bulls Stone had left. Primrose 

 2d was successfully shown, and Mr. Clark is au- 

 thority for the statement that she lived to be 21 

 years old and produced 20 calves. She was in his 

 possession until sold at last to a butcher in Chi- 

 cago for $45. 



Removes To Illinois In 1877^— Meantime the 

 west was becoming a good market for Herefords, 

 and Clark decided to remove to Beecher, 111. He 

 had shown every year at the Ohio fairs and always 

 successfully. He made one show at Erie, Pa., 

 while breeding in Ohio and another at Jackson, 

 Mich., in 1876, winning first prize on herd, in 

 competition with seven Shorthorn and Devon herds. 

 This was the first time the Herefords won that 

 prize in Michigan, and the event caused a lot of 

 controversy. John Miller of Canada was the judge. 

 Clark had meantime sold three calves to T. L. Mil- 

 ler and delivered them personally. He was im- 

 pressed with the idea that Illinois would be a bet- 

 ter location for his cattle business than Ohio and 

 in 1877 when his lease expired he bought 80 acres 

 about one mile from Miller's farm, 1^4 miles from 

 the village. He afterwards added 40 acres to the 

 home farm, and subsequently bought 26 acres ad- 

 ditional. The home farm was black loam with clay 

 subsoil. It was rolling prairie, good grass and 

 com land. Most of it was in permanent pasture; 



