. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 450 HIST 0 R,Y 0 F HERE F 0 RD CATTLE Herefords were from the herds of Shockey & Gibb, Lucien Scott, Walter Morgan & Son, and George W. West. Bangor, Maine, Faie, 18SG.—This great ex- hibition of agriculture and domestic industry at Bangor proved to be throughout the greatest success of its kind ever recorded in Xew Eng- land. It was sutcesstul at all points, in the list of fine cattle and horses shown, in the ex- tensive collection of farm implements and ma- chinery, in the multitudes i
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 450 HIST 0 R,Y 0 F HERE F 0 RD CATTLE Herefords were from the herds of Shockey & Gibb, Lucien Scott, Walter Morgan & Son, and George W. West. Bangor, Maine, Faie, 18SG.—This great ex- hibition of agriculture and domestic industry at Bangor proved to be throughout the greatest success of its kind ever recorded in Xew Eng- land. It was sutcesstul at all points, in the list of fine cattle and horses shown, in the ex- tensive collection of farm implements and ma- chinery, in the multitudes it drew from all parts of New England and beyond, and finan- cially. The two agricultural societies whose. FORTUNE (5922) 20S0. Bred by J. S. Hawes, Colony, Kan. joint efforts, directed by experienced manage- ment, secured this triumph and piresented the interests of farming in,.so attractive a light be- fore the pjublic, had the most, substantial rea- sons to be satisfied with their work, which has received such endorsement from the people. We noticed in the awards made, Burleigh & Bodwell, of Vassalboro, took" 1-5 first arid 7 second prizes with first for best herd of Here- fords, and first and second for best Hereford bull three years and over. The working oxen and steers, the town teams, the trained steers, matched oxen, and pulling oxen, with the rest, filled the exhibition park with attractions such as no true farmer could but be pleased with. Such a display of fine stock it was worth the trouble to cross New England to inspect and admire. The equal of it had not been seen in that, if indeed in anv other, section of the country before, and it all imparted a solid character to the exhibition which it would not have been possible to supply by an indefinite extent of exhibition of any other kind. At the Iowa State Fair, 1886, all the de- partments were well filled, and the cattle ex- hibits were especially fine, consisting of five herds of Herefords, twelve herds o
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