. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTOKY OF HEEEFOED CATTLE 183 chased from Mr. James Walker, with her year- ling bull, which took first prize at the show of the Eoyal at Oxford in 1839, and bred by Mr. Turner. I showed the kindness I received from the late Hon. Erastus Corning of Albany. This gentleman was a pattern to rich men. He was a princely honest man, and was always ready to encourage true enterprise. His object was to do good, and his thorough knowledge of busi- ness and the world gave him the advantage over most men.
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTOKY OF HEEEFOED CATTLE 183 chased from Mr. James Walker, with her year- ling bull, which took first prize at the show of the Eoyal at Oxford in 1839, and bred by Mr. Turner. I showed the kindness I received from the late Hon. Erastus Corning of Albany. This gentleman was a pattern to rich men. He was a princely honest man, and was always ready to encourage true enterprise. His object was to do good, and his thorough knowledge of busi- ness and the world gave him the advantage over most men. There was no man who ever knew him thoroughly but that loved and revered him. He was-moderate in all his views, kind, even to a fault, and no man worthy of support ever called upon him in vain. He was a true pro- moter of deserving enterprise. I only wish there were more such men at the head of our Govern- ment now. It would then have a solid founda- tion. His mind was based upon a sound and solid principle, and being just in all his deal- ings, he advised others into the same course. With such a mind as this, Mr. Corning could not help seeing the true value of the Hereford cattle when they appeared on his farm, and after paying all the charges upon them, ad- vanced me more money to go to England again for others of a similar character, as they were admired by all who saw them. (U 89) The trio, Lewis F. Allen, Ambrose Stevens and John E. Page, were the scribes for the ''Bates mania," and to denounce the Herefords, and, although neither of them had any practical knowledge of stock, they had an unbounded conceitedness connected with their brass to teach men more practically informed how to breed. Then there were Thos. Brown of the "Ohio Farmer," Francis Botch of Bates fame, George Yail, an importer and constant puffer of Bates and his tribes, in connection with S. P. Chap- man, neither of whom really knew anything more of Herefords or Shorthorns than a cast- iron s
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