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ern sense of the term* his steers were faulted 

 as lacking in show-yard finish. 



Mr. John B. Sherman of the Chicago Union 

 Stock-Yards for many seasons made a practice 

 of buying and maintaining in a show barn at 

 the yards fine specimens of the best show steers 

 from year to year, and at the exhibition of 

 1880 he presented at the Fat-Stock Show the 

 monster Short-horn Nels Morris at an official 

 weight of 3.125 Ibs., which is, we believe, the 

 record for weight at these shows. For some 

 years a class for heaviest fat steers was main- 

 tained, but as it only served to bring out an 

 aggregation of unprofitable mountains of tal- 

 low it was properly abandoned. Messrs. Dodge 

 of Ohio had a pair of pure-bred twin four-year- 

 old Short-horn steers at the show of 1882, 

 weighing together 5,250 Ibs. The four-year-old 

 class was dropped after the show of 1880. 



Mr. Gillett gained the championship in 1881 

 with his celebrated red bullock McMullen at a 

 weight of 2,095 Ibs., after a hotly contested 

 fight with Miller's grade Hereford Conqueror. 

 Morrow & Muir of Kentucky exhibited a good 

 load of Short-horns at this show, and entries 

 were also made by J. H. Potts & Son and the 

 Bow Park management, the latter exhibiting 

 the champion cow, Lady Aberdeen 3d. 



McMullen came back to the show of 1882, 

 having made a gain for the year of 470 Ibs., 



