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ever proved fatal. The bull had been brought back 

 from the fairs very fat, and Powell was carrying 

 him along on a comparatively simple diet — some 

 oats, with bran and a little cake. But Mr. Culbert- 

 son gave instructions that the cake and bran be 

 cut out entirely and the bull confined strictly to 

 sheaf oats. It was soon apparent that this was a 

 mistake. In a few days he was taken sick and the 

 owner, who was in Chicago at the time, was so ad- 

 vised. Possibly Mr. Powell himself did not at the 

 moment fully appreciate the gravity of the situa- 

 tion. At any rate Mr. Culbertson did not express 

 any special solicitude. The bull kept growing 

 worse, notwithstanding the faithful herdsman's 

 best efforts, and a telegram urging that a veterinary 

 surgeon be sent down to the farm at once was for- 

 warded. This brought a quick response, but too 

 late. Anxiety, the pride of two continents, died 

 from impaction of the manifold a few minutes after 

 the veterinarian arrived, lamented by his owner 

 and the entire Hereford cattle breeding fraternity 

 as easily the best bull of the breed seen up to that 

 date in the United States. 



Although he had just turned four years old, in 

 recent years he has always been referred to in Here- 

 ford circles as "old" Anxiety, this merely to dis- 

 tinguish him from the really "old" Anxieties, his 

 sons, that made such names for themselves in suc- 

 ceeding years. 



Four Yearling Heifers Sold for $4,000.— Mr. Cul- 

 bertson really got but one short crop of calves from 



