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purposes Mr. Clark bought Hero from his importer, 

 Mr. Constable, and showed him for two years suc- 

 cessfully, afterwards selling him to go to Ohio for 

 $1,300. Subsequently Hero was taken to Kansas. 

 He was clearly one of the best bulls of his day. 



The Anxiety-Peerless Nick. — Thomas Clark had 

 been showing cattle since 1870, when he exhibited 

 an Ohio-bred herd at the Illinois State Fair at Free- 

 port. For thirty-three consecutive years he was * ' in 

 the running" at the leading western shows. The 

 most valuable purchases of cows and heifers made 

 to strengthen the foundations of his herd were the 

 eight heifers secured out of the Earl & Stuart im- 

 portation of 1881, which he as agent had selected 

 in Herefordshire. By arrangement with Earl & 

 Stuart Mr. Clark obtained out of this importation 

 the Lord Wilton heifer Peerless, that produced to 

 the cover of Anxiety 3d such remarkable animals 

 as Peerless 2d and Peerless 3d, and the noted show 

 and breeding bull Peerless Wilton. Another valu- 

 able heifer out of this importation was the yearling 

 Duchess 2d, that possessed the usual scale of the 

 stock from the herd of Messrs. Green in which she 

 was bred; in Mr. Clark's herd she became a great 

 cow, possessing wonderful smoothness as well as 

 size. Unfortunately she did not prove altogether 

 satisfactory as a producer. Another of Mr. Clark's 

 selections from the importation was the heifer 

 Brown Beauty, by Colorado, from the herd of 

 Greorge Childs. She became one of the most valu- 

 able breeding cows Mr. Clark ever owned, her 



