The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-26
CATTLE NEN' 3 BANQUET
HEREFORD BREEDERS GUESTS OF
STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION
LAST NIGHT
BIG EXHIBIT AT THE FAIR
Objects of the Association Ex-
planned in an Address by Treas
urer GudgeII-CompIime
Fair Facilities.

Members of the state fair board the Of
ficers and executive committee of the
American Hereford Breeders association
and friends interested in the breeding and
selling of stock assembled at the Mer-
chants hotel last night and partook Of
banquet rendered to the officers and exec
utive committee of the American Hereford
Breeders association by the Minnesota
| State Fair association. The following
were present: President, F. f. b.
| Sotham, of ChiIlicothe, Mo-; Charles K.
! Thomas, secretary, of Independence, MO-;
| Charles Gudgell, treasurer, Of Kansas
City, Mo-; H. A. Clough, Of Elyria, O., and
| Thomas Clarke, of Beecher, Ill, officers
and executive committee of the American
! Hereford Breeders association, and the
! following guests: Allen Fitch, II. n.
| Owen, w. NJ. Hayes, e. H. Hoard, E. M
! Randall, ]. B. Taintor, George Alton CON,
| H E. Brown, Charles Fitch, A. u. Moe,
! w. ]. Murphy, S. M Owen, Charles Nc
| Clellan, w NJ. Campbell, E. M. Prouty,
| Prof Thomas Shaw, p. V. Collins, A. L.
Jones, E. A. Webb, II. P. Hall, Horace b.
Hudson, Willis L. Williams and A >.
Tallmadge, all residents of the Twin
| Cities The following members of the state
fair board were present: John Cooper,
president, ST. Cloud; Chester R. Smith,
vice president, st. Paul; c. N. Cosgrove,
LIE Sueur; Dean w. NJ. Liggett, st. An
thony Park, and Secretary E. W. Randall,
Of Hamline.
President Cooper, of the fair board, act
ed as postmaster and called upon Secre-
tary Randall, who made few brlef re-
marks in regard to the national exhibition
of the American Hereford Breeders asso-
ciation which is to be held in connection
with the Minnesota state fair this fall.
F. F. B. Sotham, president of the A. Il.
B. A.. was next introduced and made
some complimentary remarks on the Min
nesota state fair and its board of direct
ors and officers. Mr.. Sotham incidentally
remarked that mo fair in the United
States receives as loyal support from the
newspapers as the Minnesota state fair.
Mr. Charles Gudgel, treasurer of the A
H. B. A, made the address or the even
ing, in part as follows:
AS the representatives of the Associa-
ton of Hereford Breeders we congratu-
late ourselves that there is such place
as the Twin Cities of the Northwest;
that there is such an institution as the
great Minnesota state fair. To the state
| board we acknowledge our obligations
for an opportunity of making our an
nual demonstration Of Hereford cattle at
the recognized trade center and gateway
of your immense tributary territory. In
pursuance of these arrangements we are
present WIN you on ILLS OCCdSlOIl ~ SCI
for ourselves that your facilities and
| accommodations are sufficient to meet our
needs for our coming exhibition.
You people appear to do everything on
a grand scale Your streets, your public
and private buildings, your schools, your
hotels, your street railways, your mills,
your factories, your parks, and last but
not least, your state fair grounds, and
the accommCdat tons thereon, are all of
such magnificent proportions that we are
overwhelmed with your evidences of
thrift and prosperity, as well as Of the
energy and enterprise that has been well
directed. Coming as we do from COM
| munities that are not prepared to believe
all that they hear and that sometimes
now prepared 10 report to our people
that you are in readiness for your part
of the performance that is booked for
next September, and 1t only remains for
US to act our part thereof. That we
shall do this we have every assurance,
and that, too, upon scale commensur-
ate with the expectations Of the man
ayers of your fair and in accordance
with the bonanza undertakings to which
! you are accustomed. The call to arms
/ has long since gone forth to the clans
of the Hereford, and more than 500 of
| the choicest representatives of the breed
! are now undergoing q course of prepara-
| ton for this event. These will come
| from some ten to twelve different states.
! many of which will have several of their
! herds represented in this great gather
! ing; such an exhibition of Herefords as
! without a parallel in the history of any
! breed Of cattle.
One of the features Of these exhibitions
! is the holding at the same time of an
auction sale of a number of choice repre-
| sentative animals which, in this case
will number about one hundred and TWEEN
| ty-five head. Those will be sold to the
| highest bidder for just what thew will
bring on this market, regardless of price
| as it is the aim and purpose to follow up
| this sale with others until this is made
a market and a great distributing point
| for Herefords. The animals for this oc-
casion will be young and desirable will
De contributed for this purpose by some
twenty-five different herds located in ten
| or twelve different states. and will be
representative Of the herds from which
they come. This lot of sale cattle of it.
self will afford an interesting exhibit, and
Will furnish an attractive feature of the
! exhibition to many of those who are en-
gagged in the business of cattle raising.
Moreover, the time has now come when
many of the farmers of this state who
! have been almost exclusive grain grow
ers will be compelled for purposes of ro
tation of crops to mingle live stock rails
| ing with their grain growing operations.
| The query may be made what is this
! Hereford Breeders association that has
| OCSiA AAlOAAt1O4i6u' LII answer TO TINS we
will say that 1t is an organization incor-
porated, not for profit, under the laws of
! the state of Illinois, and is without any
capitar stock, the object and purpose be-
| ing to promote the cause of the Hereford
breed of cattle. Since its organization.
sixteen years ago. with less than TWENTY
five members ard not dollar in the treas
/ ury, it has grown to near 1900 members.
and has some $4,000 of cash assets in it's
! treasury. besides having already distrib-
uted over $35, 900 in cash prizes to encour-
| age the exhibition of Hereford cattle at
various state fairs and other shows, and
this too, without levying any assessment
upon its members The members of this
association now own over 10000 head of
registered Herefords that at the present
time are reasonably worth over $6,O0O,O00
These figures are quoted merely to in
spire some degree of confidence in the
/ business management of this association
as well as its ability to carry out it's
reasonable undertakings.
S: N; Owen. publisher of the Farm.