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cessful a man as John D. Gillett stated pub- 

 licly that he had abandoned his former methods 

 and was now aiming to market cattle at about 

 thirty months old. 



At the show of 1887 Short-horns resumed 

 their winning; the championship being carried 

 by I). M. Moninger's Doctor Glick an 1,855-lb. 

 two-year-old grade. The champion of the class 

 for pure-bred Short-horns was J. J. Hill's three- 

 year-old Prentice, representing a cross of his 

 Oxford bull upon one of his mixed-bred cows. 

 Moffat Bros., Paw Paw, 111., had a wonderfully 

 thick two-year-old in this show Cruickshank 

 2d, sired by imp. Amherst and weighing 1,705 

 Ibs. In 1888 the Aberdeen-Angus Dot, bred by 

 Wallace Estill and shown by Mr. Imboden re- 

 ceived chief honors of the show; his closest 

 competitor at the finish being the two-year-old 

 Short-horn Brant Chief from Bow Park. The 

 Angus weighed 1,515 Ibs. at 863 days, an aver- 

 age gain per day of 1.75. The Short-horn 

 weighed 1,890 Ibs. at 1,022 days, an average 

 gain per day of 1.85. One of the strongest 

 steers of this show was Potts' Richmond, and 

 another capital entry was Blish & Son's year- 

 ling Mark, sired by Dick Taylor of Glenwood. 

 The champion of the show of 1889 was Elbert 

 & Fall's grade twg-year-old Short-horn Rigdon, 

 a son of the Duchess bull 2d Duke of Brant, 

 shown in beautiful bloom at a weight of 1,950 



