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daughters and granddaughters contributing large- 

 ly to his subsequent wonderful showyard success. 

 However, none of these selections turned out quite 

 so valuable as Peerless. She grew into one of the 

 greatest cows the American showyard has ever 

 known, and the first time she was brought out de- 

 feated Earl & Stuart's charming Lord Wilton heifer 

 Venus, that was considered the star of the entire 

 importation to which she belonged. Peerless and 

 her daughters won innumerable prizes and cham- 

 pionships in the hottest competitions at the leading 

 shows of the middle west for a series of years. 



Adams Earl and Charles B. Stuart. — Prominent 

 among those most active in promoting the interests 

 of Hereford cattle in America throughout the era 

 of their great rise in popularity must be mentioned 

 Mr. Adams Earl and his son-in-law Charles B. 

 Stuart. Their fine farm of Shadeland on the Wea 

 (pronounced "We-aw") Plains near Lafayette, 

 Ind., became the great American Hereford show 

 place of its time. 



The farm comprised about 1,400 acres largely set 

 in good bluegrass sod and with perfect drainage, 

 lying well above the level of the Wabash bottoms. 

 It afforded an ample supply of sweet nutritious 

 grass, such as good Herefords so well know how to 

 utilize. While the farmhouse was unpretentious, 

 expense was not spared in equipping the place well 

 for the breeding of purebred cattle. Numerous 

 small pastures admitted of effective division of the 

 herd by various ages and sexes; large and commo- 



