484 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Anxiety 4th served out his period of usefulness in 

 the herd and died when about ten years old. He 

 was never shown at any fair not but that he would 

 have made a very creditable showing with reason- 

 able fitting but because there was too much work 

 cut out for him to perform. His owners had a nat- 

 ural aversion to the show policy and did not pro- 

 pose to shorten his period of usefulness. Par- 

 tially to compensate for this his owners castrated 

 the first calf from his service and named him Sus- 

 pense, the steer alluded to in a previous chapter, 

 which was exhibited for several years, being a prize 

 winner at the Kansas City and Chicago fat stock 

 shows and at the New Orleans Exposition. Sus- 

 pense was a very smooth and thick-fleshed steer 

 with grand loin, extra heavy hindquarters and very 

 drooping horns, but he was looked upon then from 

 the butcher's standpoint as rather strong in the 

 bones of his legs, which however were very short, 

 bringing his body very close to the ground. 



Beau Monde and Beau Real. The first bulls by 

 Anxiety 4th to attract attention by their records in 

 the showring were Beau Monde 9903 and Beau Real 

 11055, both bought and exhibited by Shockey & 

 Gibb, Lawrence, Kans. These bulls had been in- 

 cluded in a sale held at Kansas City in September, 

 1884. Beau Monde was then a two-year-old and 

 Beau Real but twelve months old. The latter was 

 bought by Mr. Shockey for $300, and matured into 

 one of the greatest bulls ever seen in the west. 



Among other bulls, sons of Anxiety 4th, which 



