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miles across Old England to the market of London. On the range, 

 in the feed lot, in the breeding herd, he is proving his merit, but it 

 is probably in the show ring that he has made the most improve- 

 ment in recent years. One of the most frequent remarks heard at 

 the shov^ is : "The Galloways are making better progress than 

 any other breed," meaning, of course, improvement toward show 

 yard conditions, for it is only a few years since the Galloway 

 breeder, a novice to the art of fitting for exhibition, sought en- 

 trance at the gates of our national shows. Today there are more 

 good Galloways seen at our shows, in proportion to the number of 

 animals, than any other breed. For example, at the recent Inter- 

 national, there were about seventy-five Galloways in breeding 

 classes. Had the exhibits been in proportion to the number of 

 registered animals in each breed, there should have been fifteen 

 hundred Shorthorns, six hundred Herefords, three hundred Angus. 

 In classes where they come into competition with other breeds, they 

 win their share of the honors. In the range-bred feeder class, 

 Galloways won three of the six grand champion prizes offered by 

 the American Royal and the International since these shows were 

 established, or as many as all the other breeds together. Few 

 Galloway steers have been fitted for these fat stock shows for two 

 reasons : first, the breeders have always had an active market for 

 their best bulls and the steers that come from this source are 

 second class animals. Secondly, the great majority of Galloway 

 steers are marketed by feeders who are not interested in any 

 particular breed. The popularity of the Angus breed today has 

 been made so by such men as Funk, Kerrick, White and Krambeck, 

 men who make it their business to raise high class steers, whose 

 sires and dams are the best specimens of the breed. Mr. Jacob 

 Funk said of his champion load of steers : "The foundation of 

 this load was laid over fifty years ago by Isaac Funk. Some of 

 these steers were from pure bred cows and all of my own breed- 

 ing." Mr. Deane Funk, commenting upon this load, says : "During 

 a series of efforts to capture this trophy, extending over six years, 

 I have ridden the country night and day, always with both eyes 

 open, for a promising animal. Frequently I have secured one that 

 looked a part of a winner, standing alone, but he degenerated to 

 the value of about thirty cents when turned in with the rest." As 

 the Gazette puts it : "You must be a breeder as well as a fitter," and 

 the Galloway breeder, as well as any other who aspires to cham- 

 pionship honors, must adopt similar methods and sacrifice their very 

 best bulls. In the carcass contest, the Galloways, with their finely 



