1058 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



stock. Here is his own account of the old bull's 

 early career: 



"Mr. A. C. Huxley bought at the Hoxie spring 

 sale of 1903 three cows— imp. Bema, Dauntless and 

 Miss Peerless. All were bred to Perfection. Daunt- 

 less and Peerless dropped heifer calves. Bema 

 dropped a bull calf in October, 1903, which was 

 named Perfection Fairfax. He did not look like 

 much of a calf, as he was rather slim and thin. But 

 in February he seemed to be developing into some- 

 thing better than we had expected, so we decided to 

 put him on a nurse cow. He kept on doing well. 

 His stablemate, Beau Dale 2d by Beau Donald 33d, 

 was much the better calf to start with. But time 

 went on and by May there was not much difference 

 in them. By fall Perfection Fairfax had the best 

 of him. We always raised a small patch of beets. 

 Of these Perfection Fairfax was very fond, and I 

 gave him plenty of them at all times. When he was 

 shown at Chicago as a calf, he was weaned. Not 

 many of the show calves are weaned at that time. 



"The first show we made was at Columbus, 0., 

 where he stood first and was junior champion. He 

 stood that way all around the eastern circuit until 

 Chicago, where he was second. 



"The bull wintered well as a yearling, and I could 

 fairly see him grow and widen out. He never had 

 a sick day during the four years I fed him. His 

 constitution was wonderful, and I believe that has 

 much to do with making his offspring all good feed- 

 ers and good show cattle, I believe constitution is 

 the greatest thing to consider when we come to feed 

 cattle for the showring. One thing more about Per- 

 fection Fairfax was that he was very quiet — ^what 

 I would call a lazy bull. He would never fret about 

 anything. 



