816 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Ibs. The champion of the Short-horn class at 

 this show was J. J. Hill's Britisher, a sappy, 

 thick-fleshed roan, got by a bull that was sired 

 by imp. Gambetta out of a Cruickshank Bra- 

 with Bud cow sired by a Bates Oxford bull. 

 Mr. W. H. Renick, who had been a persistent 

 and successful exhibitor, showing cattle full of 

 the Rose of Sharon blood, was also well repre- 

 sented in this exhibition by the handsome two- 

 year-old bullocks Nonesuch and Twilight, that 

 divided the ballots of Messrs. Moberley and 

 Gosling in their class. At the show of 1890 

 Nonesuch came back and carried off the cham- 

 pionship in his three-year-old form at a weight 

 of 2,090 Ibs. 



In 1891 the three-year-old class was dropped; 

 so general had become the conviction that the 

 three-year-olds should no longer be encouraged. 

 The abolition of this class, together with the 

 depressing influence of a dragging market 

 throughout the entire country for pure-bred 

 cattle, materially decreased the size of the 

 show. The exhibition, while it had been im- 

 mensely popular with all close students of the 

 problems of profitable meat production, had 

 never been a financial success. It had now en- 

 tered upon a serious decline, and, as the large 

 Exposition Building upon the Chicago Lake 

 Front, in which the shows had been held from 

 the beginning, was about to be torn down the 



