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cattle buyers for the packing houses at the stock 

 yards have a special fancy for Aberdeen-Angus 

 bullocks. While good bidders for prime Herefords, 

 they sometimes like to find a little fault. In this 

 connection the following incident is of interest as 

 illustrating this inclination on the part of some of 

 those who ride the alleys at the yards in quest of 

 good steers. It happened at the International some 

 years ago at the time "Dan" Black exhibited his 

 best load of JJ cattle. The Krambeck blacks had 

 been given the grand championship over them, 

 which Hereford men generally characterized as a 

 mistake, pointing out that Irwin Bros, bought Mr. 

 Black's Herefords but only took the ribs and loins 

 of the Angus. The latter were killed at Swift's 

 and the former at Armour's. "Billy" Kay, a son 

 of old Scotia, was at that time with Swift's; in fact, 

 he had been with the company some twenty years. 

 He fell into a warm dispute with John Gosling as 

 to the relative merits of the breeds and being some- 

 what "put to it" for a rejoinder to some of the 

 Hereford arguments advanced, finally blurted out: 



"All yer Herefords are guid for is to mak' money 

 for the farr-mers" — ^with a fine Scotch burr on the 

 latter word. Some time afterwards "Billy", who 

 owned land in Oklahoma, decided to buy some Here- 

 ford bulls for his own use. 



As to Fashions. — Fortunately there is little oc- 

 casion for warning the friends of the 'Hereford 

 against the pitfalls of fads and fashions in dealing 

 with the pedigrees of their breeding animals. In 



