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ing up to the fact that his competitors have been winning too many 

 prizes in the fat stock classes at the recent Internationals, and that 

 they must do something in order to give their breed a better stand- 

 ing in competition with those other breeds, and so they have set 

 forth now with the determination of producing the right class of 

 calves to feed for these fat stock shows, and whenever the Short- 

 horn breeders of the country, all of them, realize that that is a duty 

 they owe the breed, and set forth in that work with energy, with 

 judgment, and with persistence, we have reason to believe that the 

 Shorthorns will continue to win championships in the future as in 

 the past. Very much encouragement has been afforded us this last 

 year by winning the grand championships at the International of 

 1907. We have the encouragement that we won the grand cham- 

 pionship in the fat classes at Smithfield during the last great fat 

 stock show there. We have, as an additional encouragement, the 

 fact that at the Iowa State Fair, at the Minnesota State Fair, the 

 grand champion steer was a Shorthorn; so that this is furnishing 

 us more encouragement in these classes than has been accorded 

 us during recent years, and it is to be hoped, and we may say with 

 confidence, that if we only have such classes set forth in the fat 

 stock shows as was presented at the last International in the 

 younger classes of Shorthorns, we have every reason to believe 

 that the Shorthorns will be successful in winning other champion 

 prizes. In the matter of breed conditions, the Shorthorn stands 

 absolutely at the head. Even our competitors, going through the 

 classes of the magnificent Shorthorns, presented to the view of 

 the spectators at the recent International, and for the three last 

 Internationals, have, without any sort of qualification, commented 

 upon the splendid show that was being set forth by the Shorthorn 

 breed in the breeding classes. Now, then, when we take hold of the 

 exhibition of steers in the fat classes with the same energy, with 

 the same judgment, with the same persistence that we are showing 

 in producing animals to be exhibited in the breeding classes, then 

 we can hope to stand among the very best of those that bring the 

 cream of their breed for exhibition at our great, shows. 



Another reason why I breed Shorthorns is their universal 

 popularity. There is no question but what the Shorthorn is the 

 favorite of the great mass of the farmers of America, and why is 

 it? Because for more than a hundred years they have successfully 

 met the trying conditions of an intelligent husbandry on our farms. 

 They have been tried, and have not been found wanting. 



