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he told them they had partaken of the American beef. Thence- 
forward, he had no difficulty in disposing of American cattle, 
and became one of the leading factors in the British end of the 
export cattle trade. 
In 1877 the French firm of T. M. Ducue & Sons, commis- 
sioned him to proceed to Chicago and buy them a cargo of 
American cattle as an experiment. So successful was this pro- 
cedure that the early part of 1878 found him again at the 
Union Stock Yards, buying and shipping fat cattle and sheep 
to Britain. For several years he spent about nine months out 
of each twelve at the Chicago market and during this period 
he studied carefully the horse breeding interests of the Missis- 
sippi valley. He saw a notable opportunity to introduce a few 
Shire horses, himself being a breeder of the Cart horse in Eng- 
land. So successful was his first importation that he quit com- 
pletely the cattle export trade and devoted his entire time to 
the introduction and promotion of the Shire horse. As a base 
for his operations he founded Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm at 
Bushnell, Ill., and became its president. Never having given 
up his residence in England, he returned to his home after the 
firm establishment of his American business, leaving its opera- 
tion in the hands of his sons, J. G., W. E., and H. W. Truman. 
Thenceforward he handled the English end of his export trade, 
and purchased and shipped to America numbers of high class 
winners in the International Shire and Hackney Rings. In addi- 
tion he has exported many noteworthy Shires, Suffolks and 
Hackneys to the Argentine. 
In appreciation of his work in the cattle trade, Joun B. Suer- 
MAN (66) named one of the Union Stock Yards fat bullocks 
