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supervise his business; in short everything was ap- 

 parently going wrong. 



"The cattle had received but little cai-e or feed. 

 'Cruse' had been left out doors to sleep on refuse 

 straw where the bush of his tail had frozen fast 

 and been pulled out. The cattle were in a deplor- 

 able condition. We were in council several days 

 before we could plan a course of action. We then de- 

 cided to pay this mortgage. I paid $3,225 of it. 

 We then listed the cattle and selected, each man in 

 his turn from this list, until his claim should be 

 satisfied. I selected Crusader, Cosmo and seven 

 other cows for my claim. I kept the bull till De- 

 cember, 1906, when I sold him to Hon. George 

 Chandler, Baker City, Ore. 



"Crusader was pronounced by capable judges of 

 Herefords to be the best front-ended bull they ever 

 passed on. I never saw a bull that carried his head 

 so well; in fact he was a remarkable specimen of 

 bovine beauty. Crusader was first and champion 

 bull at the. Pan-American. He was not exhibited 

 at the World's Fair at St. Louis, but he met and 

 defeated both the senior and junior champions of 

 that show. Prime Lad at Indianapolis and Mapleton 

 at the Virginia State Fair. 



"I am glad to make this statement in order to 

 clear up the doubt as to Crusader selling at all, since 

 he was returned tb me. He did sell for $10,000 and 

 was well worth it. If Mr. Hawkins had not become 

 ill, and had not lost heavily in the race-horse busi- 

 ness, I am confident that he would have finished 

 paying out on all the cattle." 



Broadening the Kansas City Show. — The fourth 

 show since the Hereford association launched the 

 first at Kansas City in 1899, was participated in by 

 eight different breeders' organizations. The Amer- 



