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Tregrehan became the great foundation sire of the 

 VanNatta herds. Anxiety 2d was a grand bull in 

 every way. He also was taken west and in the 

 hands of G. S. Burleigh contributed largely to the 

 Hereford advance in the United States. 



H. C Burleigh showed Herefords at the Indiana 

 State Fair as early as 1881, upon which occasion 

 he won class prizes but in the competition against 

 Shorthorns received nothing. It is stated that on 

 complaining of unfair treatment upon this occasion 

 an officer of the society, after telling him that all 

 the officials of the show were Shorthorn partisans, 

 ended by saying: "I tell you plainly, the Almighty 

 never created a Hereford or an animal of any breed 

 that can beat a third-class Shorthorn on this show 

 ground in the sweepstakes ring." Two years later, 

 however, this statement found complete refutation, 

 Mr. Burleigh winning a championship in a ring of 

 thirty-six females with the cow Truth 2d 6605. 



In 1883 the Indiana Blooded Stock Co. was or- 

 . ganized with a capital stock of $200,000, Mr. Bur- 

 leigh being president. Messrs. Fletcher and Holt of 

 Indianapolis were largely interested and were in 

 local charge of the herd, which subsequently ob- 

 tained prominence as one of the important collec- 

 tions of the breed in the middle west, making a 

 number o^ successful public sales at Chicago and 

 Kansas City. In 1883 this compajiy won "The 

 Breeder's Gazette" $250 gold challenge shield at 

 the Fat Stock Show with the beautiful heifer Bur- 

 leigh 's Pride, a Hereford- Angus cross weighing 



