370 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Stookey, Belleville; J. M. Washburn, Carterville, 

 and John Landrigan, Albion. 



Soon after the show was established Hon. Lafay- 

 ette Funk of Shirley, 111., became a member of the 

 board, and for a long series of years he had imme- 

 diate charge of the cattle classes, endearing himself 

 to all who had to do with the show by his unfailing 

 courtesy and his keen sense of fairness, as well as 

 by the intelligence and industry which he always 

 brought to the work of staging these first great 

 shows of Christmas beef in the United States. Mr. 

 John B. Sherman, then General Manager of the 

 Union Stock Yards, and the late Philip D. Armour, 

 were liberal and enthusiastic patrons of the show at 

 a time when it stood in direst need of financial 

 support. 



Col. James W. Judy, the great live stock auc- 

 tioneer of this stirring period in the live stock de- 

 velopment of the west, and for many years a promi- 

 nent figure on the Illinois State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, also rendered splendid service in promoting 

 the success of the Fat Stock Show. Credit should 

 be given in this connection also to Col. Charles F. 

 Mills, who in his capacity as Assistant Secretary of 

 the Illinois State Board of Agriculture and subse- 

 quently as Secretary of that body, did much to 

 systematize the work of organization and in the dis- 

 tribution of facts developed by the annual compe- 

 titions. 



Breaking Away from Old Standards. Recog- 

 nizing the prevailing practice of the feeders of that 



