. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF HEEEFORD CATTLE 137 their scribe a learned and scholarly student, and asked the world to witness the impartial his- tory written by this scholar and endorsed by the nobility of England. And then follow such men as Randall, Ste- vens, Page, Allen, Nichols, Anderson and IMat- thews, asking the stockmen to believe that his- tory, and accept their claims on that title. If a political party had come into power on such fraudulent claims they would be buried beyond a resurrection when their
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF HEEEFORD CATTLE 137 their scribe a learned and scholarly student, and asked the world to witness the impartial his- tory written by this scholar and endorsed by the nobility of England. And then follow such men as Randall, Ste- vens, Page, Allen, Nichols, Anderson and IMat- thews, asking the stockmen to believe that his- tory, and accept their claims on that title. If a political party had come into power on such fraudulent claims they would be buried beyond a resurrection when their crime was brought to light. If a lawyer, in the interest of the client, should have committed such a fraud in his prac- tice as Berry did in the interest of himself and his associate Shorthorn breeders, he would have been prohibited from practice. What Berry did under the cloak of the "So- ciety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge," Randall, Allen and Stevens and their associates did in organizing the State Board of Agricul- ture of New York, and they used it as Berry used the English Society, and with this ma- chinery broke the Hereford interest. Let us look at this. Mr. Sotham, in 1840, brought to Albany a herd of Hereford cattle. Mr. Erastus Corning, a wealthy citizen of that city, bought an interest in them, and would .have probably furnished capital to any extent needed but Henry S. Randall used the fraud of Berry, and copying after Berry organized the New York State Fair, and used it to defeat the Herefords, and the result was that Mr. Sotham' and his enterprise was financially ruined, and on these ruins Mr. Randall and his associates were enabled to perpetuate the fraud that Berry inaugurated, and the State Agricul- tural Societies have been brought under this Shorthorn influence and each and all have been made tributary and obedient to the Shorthorn behest, and every man that has dared to ques- tion their right has been broken. Thus, the Shorthorn breeders a
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