400 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



Scotland the big level bullock, Black Prince, for ex- 

 hibition purposes. The Kansas City (Mo.) Stock 

 Yard Company held during the first week of Novem- 

 ber, 1883, the first of a series of fat stock shows at 

 Eiverview Park, and it is characteristic of the enter- 

 prise displayed by the advocates of the rival breeds 

 at that period that the Gearj'^s went to the expense 

 of forwarding this 2,300-pound steer from the Que- 

 bec quarantine station to Kansas City by express, 

 in order that the new breed might not be unrepre- 

 sented at that show. He arrived in time for the 

 fray, and created a genuine sensation. A three- 

 cornered fight, instead of the duel between the Here- 

 fords and Shorthorns, was thus 'precipitated, and 

 the black-skins made a hit with killers from the start. 

 "Doddies" and "Kilts." — It is difficult for 

 those who have through long familiarity become 

 accustomed to such exhibitions to realize the in- 

 tensity of the interest manifested by western farm- 

 ers, feeders and ranchmen in these first pitched bat- 

 tles between the breeds. It is true that the Here- 

 fords had by this time ceased to be a novelty, but 

 the parade of imported black polled breeding cattle, 

 with Black Prince at their head, that was sent 

 through the streets adjacent to the Kansas City 

 yards on the morning of Friday, Nov. 30, 1883, was 

 a spectacle full of thrills to the oldest cattleman 

 present. The long line of silky-black hornless 

 "beasties" that set out from Grant's old sale sta- 

 ble, accompanied by a pair of "pipers" in their 

 "kilts," had to the most seasoned frequenter of the 



