THE CREST OF ANOTHER WAVE 837 



Humphrey paying $1,005 for Mr. Armour's imp. 

 Southington and C. B. StoU of Hamburg, la., the 

 same price for Beau Donald 37th. During the first 

 week of December 96 head sold at Chicago at an av- 

 erage of $380, J. C. Adams taking out Harris' show 

 cow Betty 2d at $4,500, the Stanton Farm being 

 runner-up. 



Tom Ponting Closes Out. — An important private 

 transaction of the year 1901 was the sale of some- 

 thing over 200 head of cattle by Tom Ponting, Mo- 

 weaqua, 111., to William Humphrey, Ashland, Neb., 

 at $35,000. This practically marked the close of Mr. 

 Ponting 's career as a breeder of pedigree "white 

 faces." While he had never made any particular 

 effort to force himself or his herd into the limelight, 

 he nevertheless contribtued in a very practical way 

 for a long series of years to the successful extension 

 of Hereford breeding throughout the western states. 

 Mr. Ponting was bom in England in 1824, came out 

 to the States in 1847, and engaged in the Hereford 

 business in 1878. He made his first importation in 

 1882, buying several head at the Carwardine sale. 

 He at one time imported three head of the old gray 

 sort from J. G. Haynes of Monmouthshire. At this 

 writing (1914) Mr. Ponting is still living at the ripe 

 old age of ninety years. 



Death of K. B. Armour.— On June 27, 1901, Kirk- 

 land Brooks Armour, one of the strongest support- 

 ers the Hereford interests had in the west, passed 

 away while yet in the prime of a busy and emi- 

 nently useful life. His first introduction to Here- 



