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of the best subjects thut we liave before us, :uid 1 would like to lieiir from 

 all of you. Mr. Douuelly. have you had experience in feediuf^ a show 

 steer? 



Mr. Donnelly: No. sir. not thai I care to s]ieak of. 



Vice-President (.'hristiau: FraiUv Cotton is in the audience and is a 

 man that has made a great success, and we sliould like to hear fiom liim. 



Mr. Frank Cotton: As 1 said last niuht, 1 shoiUd lie seen and not 

 heard. We have the cattle if we will briii!, tliem out. 1 am pidud that I 

 showed one steer in my life and 1 cxjk ct I will show aiiolln'r one some 

 time. A\ hen you talk .-iliout show steers not coming to the front, and 

 you will have to wait another year, you will have to look out for ,Iohn 

 Sullivan, for he will be a good steer next year. I have two steers thai 

 1 will feed. I am very much interested in the I'rofes.sor's description of 

 an ideal show steer, and I think this steer of mine is of the type the 

 Professor spoke of. 1 have a half lirother of John L. Sullivan. He looks 

 to me very much like John L. Sullivan. l»ut in fact he is a better steer 

 than John was at the same age. If he tinishes up good, I expect to show 

 two steers next year, and I don't see why nun'e Shorthorn breeders do 

 not do this. I sold this calf of mine at the International whih" he was 

 a calf, and while I sold him pretty well. I hated to see him ^o, but lie went 

 into good hands and will proi)ably do me just as much good. Tliis is 

 something other breeders will not do. They will not sell the best calves 

 they have. I am very much in favor of steer feeding. My father was a 

 steer luan; he used to feed steers liy the car loads, but when he was feed- 

 ing sti'ers there was no such thing as an International. If theie had 

 lieen he would have been there with a load of steers. He was a steer 

 man, and while I don't thiidi I am as good as he, I like to raise them just 

 the same, and I try to get them as near right as I cm. If all of you will 

 try just as h.-iid as I am trying to make good steers, we will not stand 

 behind Mr. I'.radfutr or any one i-lsc. Iiei-ause we h:ive the c.-ittlc to make 

 good steers. 



W. S. Itoi)ltins: 'riiere is one point of general interest to Shorthorn 

 men, and to all j)eoplc who pi-cp;ire steers for the Intern.itional show. 

 .\ gre.-it m:iny h:ive been taking stei I's to Chicago, and it seems to me th:il 

 there is a disposition on the part of the buyers of the f;in;y steers to get 

 them for less nn)ney than they are really wortn. There is competition 

 there in the way id' selling these cattle. Mr. Clem Graves, who cime 

 from this State, took a steer to the slmw. .ind after the show w.is over, 

 they tried to buy for seven cents per pound. That w;is the best otTer 

 that he got. He simply infornu'd thi'se men that he woulil not take si-veii 

 c-ents, and would take the steer home before he would sell ;it this price. 

 He took the steer back home with liim and went to ilic Initdier in Peru. 

 Indiaii.M. .and got that man to Imy tliis steer :is .an .•idvcriiscmeiit for his 



