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won the carcass championship. Other new exhib- 

 itors in the Hereford class were A. A. Crane & Son 

 and Fowler & VanNatta. Mr. Miller exhibited a lot 

 of grass-fed grades. 



Opportunity was given for the display of breed- 

 ing cattle at this show, and the Hereford people 

 made the most of it. Miller brought in his famous 

 show bull Success, then near ten years old; Earl & 

 Stuart presented their newly imported Eoyal win- 

 ners. Sir Bartle Frere and Garfield, and George 

 Leigh exhibited the imported bull Eoyal 14th. 



The pot was boiling furiously by this time all 

 along the line, in both the rival camps. Practical 

 men were seeking assiduously the rehabilitation of 

 the Shorthorn along up-to-date lines, and Hereford 

 enthusiasm, under the stimulus of an extensive de- 

 mand for bulls from the range and for registered 

 cattle for breeding herds in the middle west, was 

 rising rapidly. It only needed the result of the next 

 succeeding fat stock show to bring to a successful 

 close the long-drawn-out struggle of the Herefords 

 for full and unreserved recognition as a type that 

 had'come to America to stay. 



Pirst Aligns Show Steer. — The year 1883 found 

 still another Eichmond in the field and con- 

 tending at the fat stock shows for the favor "of 

 American cattle-growers. The Aberdeen-Angus 

 polls were beginning to gain a footing and the 

 Messrs. Geary of Canada, who were early importers 

 of the "doddies," not to be outdone by the enter- 

 prising backers of the Herefords, shipped out from 



