422 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



of the John D. Gillett blood. His first purchase of 

 Herefords was made from Mr. Miller in 1877. The 

 first lot comprised about fifteen head, including 

 heifers by Success and Sir Charles. His first bulls 

 were Success 2d, bred by William Powell, Ridge- 

 ville Boy 1476, bred by Tom Clark from Sir Arthur, 

 and Seventy-Six, by Sir Richard 2d. He also bought 

 cows from the herds of Messrs. Blake, Atkinson and 

 Burleigh of Maine, including daughters of Sir Rich- 

 ard 2d. References to his ownership of Sir Richard 

 2d and to his first Fat Stock Show winnings have 

 already been made in preceding chapters. Finally 

 convinced of the value of the blood for steer breed- 

 ing and feeding purposes, Mr. Culbertson embarked 

 upon a series of importations from Herefordshire 

 and of purchases of "tops" from the best American 

 sources which soon made the herd at Hereford Park 

 the premier establishment of its kind in the state of 

 Illinois. 



Anxiety Imported. — One of his first important 

 moves was to send George Morgan to England to! 

 select a first-class bull and a few heifers for im-' 

 portation. This was in 1879. Morgan gladly made 

 the journey back to his native haunts, and had the 

 judgment or the rare luck to select the bull which 

 had been named Anxiety by his breeder, T. J. Car- 

 wardine, as narrated in a preceding chapter. Some 

 heifers, a few of them show animals, were also 

 bought. These included Spangle 3d from Mrs. Ed- 

 wards of Wintercott; Nancy 2d, bred by T. Myddle- 

 ton; Apple Blossom, from Stocktonbury and got by 



