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tical. It required two years to sell them, the bulk of them going 
to the Swan Land & Cattle Co. This shipment, however, broke 
the ice and in later years Mr. CLarK shipped large numbers of 
purebred bulls into the Cheyenne and Montana districts. Later 
he went after the southwestern trade and sold many animals 
into Kansas, the Panhandle and New Mexico. 
His showyard record began in 1869 in Ohio and Pennsyl- 
vania. In 1876 he showed his herd at the Michigan State Fair, 
meeting all the good Canadian Shorthorns. Under the adjudi- 
cation of Joun MILLER (114) he received first prize on his herd 
over all competition. His first show in Illinois was the county 
fair at Freeport in 1877. At this time his herd only numbered 
about twenty-five head, but he husbanded its resources care- 
fully, until at the heighth of his operations, he possessed about 
150 purebred animals. His last year in the showring with any 
considerable number of animals was 1902, although at intervals 
since then he has shown one or two individuals. Mr. CLark 
was the first man to sell a Hereford bull at public auction, to 
realize as large a sum as $9,000. This was secured for the bull 
Perfection, shortly after he won at the 1901 International. 
In August, 1877, the American Hereford Herd Book was 
established under the direction of Mr. T. L. Mrtuer, at Beecher, 
Ill. THomas Cxarx contributed liberally of his time and infor- 
mation to the production of Volume I, and on its publication 
in 1880 succeeded personally in attracting new breeders to the 
Hereford standard. About this time breeders of Herefords 
declared war to the knife on the Shorthorns, and made exten- 
sive and organized plans to clean up the championships at the 
Lake Front Show. Numbers of breeders made enthusiastic prom- 
ises to steer a large number of their best bull calves, following 
Mr. Ciark’s admonition that the “gentlemen would do well to 
bear in mind that if they wanted good steers they must alter 
good calves.” In 1881 Mr. CLark imported for Eary & Stuart 
