. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. APPENDIX 549 earnest worker, striving for principles and facts, rather than for greed and mammon. He had been trying for years to induce the Farwells to put Herefords on their great 3,000,000-acre range in Texas, had contracted with-them (or one of them) to furnish them a thousand bulls at a fair price, when his difficulties overtook him, and Mr. John V. Farwell bought the en- tire herd at a song, singing it himself, and figuratively buried it on the great Capitol Ranch in Texas. No records were
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. APPENDIX 549 earnest worker, striving for principles and facts, rather than for greed and mammon. He had been trying for years to induce the Farwells to put Herefords on their great 3,000,000-acre range in Texas, had contracted with-them (or one of them) to furnish them a thousand bulls at a fair price, when his difficulties overtook him, and Mr. John V. Farwell bought the en- tire herd at a song, singing it himself, and figuratively buried it on the great Capitol Ranch in Texas. No records were kept of the increase, and so when recently it was deemed advisable to restore the herd to the records. book will show that, beginning with Youatt, all the books ever written on the breeds of cattle have been biased toward and in favor of other breeds. In Mr. Miller's work, we will have the exploits of the breed portrayed by a Here- ford advocate and breeder. I consider it a godsend that in the ripeness of his years he was spared with robust health, and keen, clear intellect, thus to complete and round out his work, and for the thousandth time again place the Hereford breed and fraternity under lasting obligations to him. The immediate cause of Mr. Miller's death. ALBION (15027) 76960. The great Enrlish sire and prize winner. (Photo from life.) only a few of the remaining old cows could be identified, and thus it is that the blood of Mr. Miller's Highland Herefords was largely sub- merged in the flood derived from the latter importations. Mr. Miller's last work was practically com- pleted—a modern history of Hereford cattle. This is a work of vast importance to the breed- ers of Hereford cattle. It is the first authorita- tive history of the Herefords ever written by a loyal Hereford breeder. It is a labor of love. Hereford breeders have too long taken their literature from writers who are distinctively at heart advocates of other breeds. Mr. Miller's was an accidental fall.
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