526 A HISTOBT OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



two-year-old bull with the massive imported Royal 

 16th, over Romeo and Tregrehan ; Shadeland scored 

 again on yearling bulls with Prince Edward, against 

 Anxiety 4th and Anxiety 5th and others. Culbert- 

 son won first in a strong class for cows with imp. 

 Downton Rose, second going to Shadeland 's imp. 

 Lady 3d*; Clark won in the two-year-old heifers 

 with Peerless, as against Venus ; a rare lot of year- 

 ling heifers were headed by Hershey's Miss Broad- 

 gauge 2d by Horatius, with Earl & Stuart's Wilton 

 heifer Delight 2d as the runner-up. Prettymaid and 

 Duchess 2d were implaced in this extraordinary 

 company. It will be noted that the entire outfit of 

 winners was imported. 



There was no end of trouble before a committee 

 was finally secured to judge the open classes. With 

 the Hereford men it was "anything to beat the 

 Shorthorns." It mattered not at all which Here- 

 ford bull, cow or herd might be chosen. The only 

 question was how to prevent the ' ' Shorthorn crowd 

 from putting up a job" to beat them. There were 

 nightly councils of war at the old Hotel Labr. 

 Scouts were appointed to give warning of attempted 

 unfair tactics. Culbertson was in command of a 

 coterie of comrades under perfect discipline. Man 

 after man tendered by the society to serve as a 

 juror was challenged and rejected, sometimes be- 

 cause he was a cattle feeder instead of a breeder, 

 and sometimes vice versa. Worn out at length by 



•While this cow. Lady 3d by Horace 2d, had been shown regularly 

 since a calf, she had dropped three calves by the time she was five 

 years old. 



