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Don Carlos. As already stated, the policy of close 

 breeding in this herd was undertaken with caution 

 and with much experimenting and some consider- 

 able degree of misgiving. However, when Don Car- 

 los 33734 grew up in the herd and began to be used 

 he was made the main service bull for concentrating 

 the blood of Anxiety 4th and was freely used upon 

 his half-sisters as well as on the cows by North 

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Don Carlos was shown at the World's Fair at 

 Chicago in 1893 when seven years old, and with 

 over 250 calves dropped to his service was given 

 second place in the aged bull class and reserve for 

 sweepstakes bull, as will appear further on. It was 

 the intention to show Druid 46833, a son of Don 

 Carlos, in the aged bull class at Chicago, but he 

 accidentally got greatly frightened at some noisy 

 school children so that he became very nervous and 

 developed a fighting disposition. Consequently 

 Don Carlos was taken as a last resort. 



An Outcross That Failed. In the meantime an- 

 other attempt at an outcross was made through the 

 bull Earl of Shadeland 47th 36644, wearing the 

 laurels of champion two-year-old bull at the Illinois 

 State Fair at Chicago and combining the blood of 

 Garfield, Lord Wilton, and The Grove 3rd. This 

 bull was used for two years on some of the best 

 cows of the Herd but did not prove to be a success 

 as a breeder, and as the demand for mature bulls 

 was slack he was finally sold to the butcher. From 

 this bull, however, Gudgell & Simpson got the bull 



