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me, I sold when six years old for $500. This cow 

 was the mother of two heifers. One was Armel, 

 bought by A. P. Nave for $220 in my first public 

 sale at the Palmer House Stables at Chicago in 1897. 

 He sold her a short time afterward to K. B. Armour 

 for $1,000 and she weis one of the attractive mem- 

 bers of that celebrated herd. The other heifer, Viola 

 by Columbus, I listed in the sale at the Kansas City 

 Royal in 1899, where she was purchased by Col. 

 Slaughter and Thomas Mortimer for $1,250, selling 

 next to Armour Rose, which brought the highest 

 price in that very spirited sale. 



"You will note from the full list of the progeny of 

 this famous cow, herewith appended, that three years 

 elapse between the birth of Vivien and Dale. This 

 is a long period for a young cow to pass not breed- 

 ing and I was almost at the point of disposing of 

 her, all in ignorance that the story of Dale, Perfec- 

 tion, Perfection Fairfax, on down to Joan Fairfax, 

 was already written ' among the things that are and 

 the things that shall be hereafter. ' 



"The story of Dale is now a matter of common 

 knowledge. There are two points in his showyard 

 career that I wish to emphasize: in 1897 he was the 

 first Hereford to win the gra.nd championship, all 

 breeds competing, at the Ohio and Indiana state 

 fairs; and after five years of showing when he was 

 matched against Perfection, Christopher, Dandy Rex- 

 and many other famous bulls he won the purple rib- 

 bon in his final appearance in the showring at the 

 International in 1901. Dale rests in the burying 

 ground of the little Christian church on Jesse Adams' 

 farm, his grave cared for by Amy Adams. 



"Mr. Adams purchased Columbia from me for 

 $1,100 and Columbia 2d for $1,325 in a breeders' sale 

 in Kansas City in January, 1901. He bred Columbia 



