. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTOKY OF HEREFOED CATTLE 185 The facts were so plain to a practical breeder, and, when coming before the public, though startling, the more they were stirred, the more plainly the proof appeared. The way Mr. Mat- thews sifted Mr. Bates' pedigrees in the "Xa- tional Live Stock Journal'' and stating unde- niable facts of their mixed-up alloys were suffi- cient proof of his intentional misleadmgs. Judge T. C. Jones and J. H. Sanders, publishing these articles without comment, were at the sam
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTOKY OF HEREFOED CATTLE 185 The facts were so plain to a practical breeder, and, when coming before the public, though startling, the more they were stirred, the more plainly the proof appeared. The way Mr. Mat- thews sifted Mr. Bates' pedigrees in the "Xa- tional Live Stock Journal'' and stating unde- niable facts of their mixed-up alloys were suffi- cient proof of his intentional misleadmgs. Judge T. C. Jones and J. H. Sanders, publishing these articles without comment, were at the same time insane on Bates and his "top crosses," neither of them being capable of detecting which alloy had the advantage. The mania cry was "pure Bates," "absolutely pure,'' and men went headlong into this "pur- ity'' like maniacs released from an asylum, proof of which was so palpable at the New York Mills sale, that "he who runs could ; Bates and his clique consisted of the men I have named; the tongues and pens of those who had but little money were freely exercised by favor of those who had. Mr. John E. Page was a special pleader. He made in-and-in pedigrees pure, assisted by L. F. Allen and Ambrose Stevens; to make this more sure he sketched very flattering portraits of pet animals, and Lewis F. Allen placed them in the Herd Book, which was sufficient to create an excitement. John R. Page had just the tools to do it. (t|90)(lj91) His pencil and ruler could draw straight lines out of an original crookedness. He had a faultless art of makins; crooked side-lines straight, could make high hips low, coarse bone fine, smoothenrough shoul- ders, transfer thin necks into prominent neck veins; "sweet heads" was a specialty with him, as he invariably carries that pattern in his eye, and his brain was always addled with it. He always patronizes "up-standing style," conse- quently could not shorten the legs to change that
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