362 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



as a sire. Sir Richard 2d was then nearly ten years 

 old and cost $500. After using him two or three 

 years Mr. Miller parted with him to Tom Clark at 

 $400. He was sold by Clark in 1882 to Earl & Stuart 

 of Lafayette, Ind,, siring some great calves while 

 at Shadeland Farm, including the famous Elton 

 line of bulls and the Eltona heifers. He passed into 

 the possession of C. M. Culbertson in the fall of 

 1882, and becoming useless at the age of fifteen 

 years was sent to the butcher in the spring of 1884 

 at a weight of 2,000 pounds, bringing $5.75 per cwt. 

 on the Chicago market, when $6.75 was the very 

 top for choice corn-fed native steers. 



Messrs. Clark and Culbertson bought all of the 

 daughters of Sir Richard 2d they could obtain in 

 the east. They were distinguished for their splen- 

 did substance and scale — ^big massive cows, wonder- 

 ful "fleshers" on good pasture, and rare breeders. 

 A number of them were fitted and shown. For a 

 young show herd, exhibited in 1882 by Fowler & 

 Van Natta, of which three were heifers by Sir Rich- 

 ard 2d, the sum of $5,000 was refused. One of his 

 most noted sons was Fortune, famous in the hands 

 of J. S. Hawes of Kansas. The show bull Dictator 

 (1989), bred by Mr. Miller and sold to Mr. Field- 

 ing W. Smith of Missouri was by a grandson called 

 Seventy-Six (1093). 



"Old Dick", as Sir Richard 2d was commonly 

 called, was not seen in western showyards. He 

 was otherwise and more profitably engaged, 

 throughout a long, busy and in every way illus- 



