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fair prices. There were 97 head in the Sunny Slope 

 lot that averaged $177.30, the best price being $555 

 for the heifer Ashton Bloom with a bull calf at foot 

 by the $3,000 imp. Salisbury. The Scott & March 

 offering of 99 head made $192. This was a specially 

 good lot of breeding cattle brought forward in beau- 

 tiful bloom by the herd manager, Mr. Godfrey. 



The Curtain Falls on Stirring Scenes. — ^As the 

 century drew to its close in the autumn of 1899 

 the apotheosis of the Hereford in America was 

 reached. All that the fondest admirers of the 

 "white faces" had ever predicted for the breed had 

 now come true. ' The Hereford had entered into 

 full and almost undisputed possession of the great 

 cattle ranges of the west, thus opening up a field 

 infinitely broader than the Herefordshire fathers 

 had ever dreamed.. 



By judicious concentrations of the blood of the 

 earlier importations a type of cattle had been 

 evolved that in point of finish, levelness and smooth- 

 ness clearly surpassed the Herefords of old Here- 

 fordshire. The appeal to the magic power of in- 

 and-in breeding by men possessing the experience 

 imperatively demanded for its. wise application was 

 now manifesting itself marvelously in every show- 

 yard. A realization of this fact added the joy that 

 always -accompanies the accomplishment of a sus- 

 tained purpose to the intense enthusiasm attending 

 the conquest of the grassy empire dominated by the 

 snow-clad summits of the Rockies. 



Big men in Texas, big men all through the great 



