812 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 







and repeated his championship winning of the 

 previous year at a weight of 2,565 Ibs. He was 

 a good type of the old-fashioned sort, possess- 

 ing a table back and enormous size, but stand- 

 ing rather high from the ground. The Messrs. 

 Groff of Canada supplied a great 2,400-lb. steer 

 at this show called Canadian Champion, that 

 had a more even distribution of thick flesh 

 than McMullen, and John Hope appeared from 

 Bow Park with his famous Bates-bred white 

 bullock, Clarence Kirklevington, as a yearling, 

 weighing 1,620 Ibs. Messrs. Potts had a re- 

 markable steer in this show also, known as Red 

 Major, a well-ripened bullock weighing 1,600 

 Ibs. at 715 days old. The late Hon. D. M. Mon- 

 inger, of Galvin, la., one of the most noted 

 of the Trans-Mississippi feeders of his day, 

 and a disciple of John D. Gillett, exhibited in 

 1882 his famous "Crimson Herd," including the 

 good, thick-fleshed, short-legged 1,945-lb. steer 

 Tom Brown. 



In 1883 Mr. C. M. Culbertson, Newman, 111., 

 won the championship with a roan white-faced 

 steer, Roan Boy, sired by a Hereford bull out of 

 a Short-horn cow, both factions claiming a full 

 share of the honor of the award. This was a 

 memorable show, the grade class being perhaps 

 the largest ever seen at this exhibition, and re- 

 markable for the large number of Herefords 

 shown by Messrs. Earl & Stuart, Fowler & 



