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Promoting Agriculture. Later other importations followed in a 

 small way. In 1840 W. H. Sotham, a native of Herefordshire, 

 England, who had previously emigrated to America, imported to 

 Albany, New York, in partnership with Erastus Corning, Jr., 

 2 1 cows and heifers and a two-year-old bull. This importation was 

 followed by others in 1843, 1852-1853, and 1861-1862. Sotham 

 worked hard to promote the breed, but neither the Kentucky, 

 Massachusetts, nor New York importations awoke enthusiasm. 

 Captain Pendleton of Maine also imported 2 calves in 1846, and 



Fig. 105. Earl of Shadeland 22d 27147, by Garfield 7015, the champion Here- 

 ford bull of 1888, known as "The Record Breaker." One of the famous bulls 

 of his day. Held by " Uncle " John Lewis, long the successful manager of the 

 great Shadeland herd at Lafayette, Indiana, now dispersed. From photograph 



by the author 



in 1852 John Humphries and Thomas Aston, coming as new set- 

 tlers to Ohio from England, brought with them 7 Herefords. In 

 i860 F. W. Stone of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, began importing 

 and became a most important factor in promoting the breed in 

 that country. Later, about 1875, T. L. Miller of Beecher, Illinois, 

 became interested. He was a man of wealth and ability and did 

 much to introduce Herefords into the West and insist on the 

 public recognizing the merits of the breed for the range country. 

 Miller exhibited at fairs, and in 1877 his cattle attracted the atten- 

 tion of C. M. Culbertson of Illinois and Adams Earl, Moses Fowler, 

 and W. S. Van Natta of Indiana, all of whom became noted breeders 

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