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fording some of the sharpest competition on record, but the tri- 

 umphs of the Blackskins in the grades and crosses in the champion- 

 ships and in the car load lots seemed to invest with somewhat pro- 

 phetic character our comment at the opening of the season on the 

 approaching black cloud. In competition with all beef breeds they 

 won grand champion on grade Angus steer, Shamrock, as the 

 best individual fat animal of the show. Chas. Escher was award- 

 ed the grand championship on the best carload fat steers. The 

 Angus also won the first and second prizes in the 2-year-old 

 slaughter test; also first prize in the yearling test." 



At the fifth International Show, 1904, it was Angus year 

 again. If Clear Lake Jute 2d, who was reserve champion the year 

 before, came back and demonstrated, he should have been first 

 and reserve in 1903. C. Krambeck, Marne, la., was there with 

 a car load of fat Doddies that won highest honors over all breeds, 

 and also demonstrated that he should not have been technically 

 protested the year before when all conceded he had the grand 

 champion car load. Messrs. Kerrick and Funk, each with a load 

 of Angus, were close contestants for this award. 



The sixth International, 1905, was history repeating itself. It 

 was Angus again. "Blackrock" grade Aberdeen-Angus steer was 

 made grand champion over all individual fat steers. C. Kram- 

 beck was there again, and still more forcibly demonstrated that he 

 was a feeder and a breeder of the right sort, by being awarded the 

 grand championship over all breeds for the best car-load of fat 

 steers. An Angus steer was again champion in the dressed car- 

 cass test. 



The account of the fat car-load at the last International Show 

 of last month, as published by the Breeders' Gazette, is strong 

 enough to make anyone unprejudiced appreciate the greatness of 

 Angus cattle. The first four car-loads contesting for grand cham- 

 pionship honors were Angus. Such a quartette of carloads of fin- 

 ished beef was never before under the critical eye of a judge. 

 A load of Angus steers was awarded grand championship. This 

 was a foregone conclusion even to the layman surveying the ex- 

 hibit. The Funk car-load first, the Krambeck second, the Kerrick 

 third, the Escher fourth, making a constellation of Angus steers 

 the like of which had never been presented to the public before. 



The champion slaughter test was won by an Angus 2-year-old 

 steer. The Daily Drovers' Telegram, Kansas City, Mo., April 26, 

 1901, contained this article: 



"To say of a breed of beef cattle that it has topped our mar- 



