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"heaviest fat steer" prize with Nels Morris, a 

 grade Shorthorn tipping the beam at 3,125 pounds ! 

 This steer measured 9 feet, 6 inches around the 

 heart, 9 feet, 9 inches at the flank, and stood 5 

 feet, 51/2 inches high. He was one of the marvels 

 of his day, and as such was carried over at the 

 yards for another year, coming back to the show in 

 1881 at the reduced weight of 2,900 pounds, and 

 again winning the prize offered for the heaviest fat 

 steer. 



Culbertson Enters the Lists. The Nichols in- 

 cident stirred the Hereford camp to still greater 

 activities in the steer line. Conqueror's character 

 had convinced them that they now had their antago- 

 nists on the defensive at last, and at the show of 

 1881 two exhibitors, who afterwards assumed lead- 

 ership in the Hereford campaign, came into the 

 prizelist. These were Thomas Clark and C. M. Cul- 

 bertson. The former we have already introduced; 

 the latter was a wealthy Chicago business man, an 

 old-time packer at the yards, partner in the firm of 

 Culbertson & Blair, and owner of a great farm in 

 one of the richest corn-growing districts of the 

 world the deep black "Broadlands" in Douglas 

 Co., 111. Mr. Culbertson had observed the steady 

 advances of the Herefords and he became one of 

 their most able and enthusiastic advocates. He was 

 a feeder of cattle for the Chicago market, and his 

 first honor won at the fat stock show was the block 

 championship awarded in 1881 to the fine carcass of 

 his 1,835-pound steer, Broad Horns. 



