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the hope of securing relief from a complication of 

 disorders incident to advanced age. He had passed 

 the four-score milestone. 



Hereford Constitutions in Evidence. — The fact 

 that Vincent and Earl of Shadeland 30th were 

 able to come back again at the shows of 1892 af- 

 forded fresh proof of the staying qualities, the con- 

 stitution, and the vigor of the Hereford. Ability to 

 stand up under the pressure of long-continued high 

 feeding for show demonstrates the reverse side of 

 the claim made for the "white faces" as the hardi- 

 est of all the improved breeds of cattle of the beef 

 type. Second only in point of practical interest 

 for cattle-growers to the demonstration of constitu- 

 tion being made during this same period by the 

 Hereford bulls on the open ranges of the far west 

 was the record of such bulls as Fowler, Vincent, 

 and Earl of Shadeland 30th at the shows of the 

 cornbelt states. Animals lacking in real virility 

 would deteriorate quite as rapidly under the ad- 

 verse influences of over-feeding as under the ef- 

 fects of hardships suffered under the conditions 

 prevailing in the arid storm-swept areas of the tree- 

 less plains and intermountain grazing grounds that 

 supported the cattle industry beyond the 100th 

 meridian. 



At Des Moines, in September, 1892, the sturdy 

 son of Garfield, the Earl of Shadeland 30th, so 

 often mentioned hitherto in these notes, was again 

 awarded pride of place as best aged Hereford bull, 

 but the perennially popular Vincent, now in his 



