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setback in 1887, when Mr. Moninger's red two- 

 year-old Shorthorn Dr. Glick, shown at a weight of 

 1,855 pounds, was made champion. True, he was 

 not an aged steer, but he was scarcely of the blocky 

 sort toward which late decisions had been tending. 

 There was not as "toppy" a lot on exhibition this 

 year as in 1886, however. Perhaps that accounts 

 for an apparent reaction. 



The . Galloways were out in good form both at 

 Kansas City and Chicago, and one of them won the 

 carcass championship at the latter show. Sussex 

 cattle, owned by Mr. Overton Lea of Tennessee, 

 were seen also and attracted attention as a profit- 

 able butcher's type. 



First Angus Champion. - - Wallace Estill, one 

 of Missouri's most successful cattle-feeders, had 

 shown in 1887 the yearling purebred Angus Dot, 

 that won prizes and was regarded as about the tidi- 

 est bit of baby beef the west had yet seen. John 

 Imboden bought him at the Chicago show and took 

 him down to his Decatur feedlots to see what could 

 be done during another twelve months' feeding pe- 

 riod. He came back unbeatable, gaining the 1888 

 championship with little grumbling from any quar- 

 ter, weighing 1,515 pounds at 863 days old, a living 

 exemplification of what was meant by the expression 

 so often heard, "the greatest weight in the smallest 

 superficies." He had been steered by Mr. Estill 

 because he had white markings, not recognized as 

 admissible in Angus breeding cattle. Dot's chief 

 competitor was John Hope's champion of the Short- 



