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over 330 head. He did not undertake as a rule, 

 however, the purchase of show cattle or those in 

 special demand by reason of fashionable breeding. 

 In fact, in some cases his importations included 

 cattle which, while doubtless of well established 

 Hereford breeding, did not measure up to the strict 

 American rules governing pedigree registration of 

 English-bred Herefords. These were comparative- 

 ly few in number, however. 



In 1885 the herd numbered 500 head and was 

 claimed to be the largest collection of purebred 

 Herefords in the world at that date. While these 

 importations did not figure conspicuously in the 

 American sale and showyard records of the period 

 under review, they enjoyed a wide distribution 

 among farmers and ranchmen. Mr. Cook, Sr., was 

 succeeded in the ownership of this great Iowa prop- 

 erty by his son, Mr. A. E. Cook, and the herd was 

 not finally closed out until 1914. 



The Full List- of Importers of this Period. — 

 Space admonishes that we must now bring this por- 

 tion of our story to a close. We should like to enter 

 into details regarding the operations of a number 

 of other firms, corporations and individuals that 

 figured conspicuously in the annals of the period, 

 but there is so much yet ahead that we shall, for the 

 present, conclude these notes on importations by 

 appending some interesting statistics now present- 

 ed for the first time. In the tabulation the full list 

 of those who participated in these shipments is set 

 forth. 



