740 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



In December, 1900, the Cliowchilla outfit exhibited 

 at the Chicago International one carload of Short- 

 horn calves on which the blue ribbon for the south- 

 ern district was secured. These calves averaged 

 600 pounds and were purchased by Mr. Judy, of 

 Menard Co., 111., at $7 per cwt. He in turn fed six- 

 teen head of them for the International of the follow- 

 ing year and on these was awarded first prize for 

 fed yearlings. They averaged at that time 1,260 

 pounds. At this same show the company exhibited 

 one carload of Shorthorn calves and a carload of 

 half-bred Herefords and drew blue ribbons again. 



In 1905 the Chowchilla people sold their beef 

 steers to the Western Meat Co. (Swift & Co.), and 

 the tops proving too fat for the San Francisco mar- 

 ket two trains of twenty cars each of these three- 

 year-olds were shipped to the Chicago stock yards 

 on the 15th and 20th of April. The first trainload 

 averaged 1,280 pounds and the second shipment 1,200 

 pounds, with an average shrinkage of 90 pounds 

 per head in transit. Mr. Charles Eobinson (of Clay, 

 Eobinson & Co.) wrote at the time in regard to 

 these cattle that no one in the yards could believe 

 that they were grass cattle, owing to their being so 

 fat and such early beef. At least 90 per cent of 

 these steers were half-bred Herefords. Owing to 

 the high price of land the Chowchilla Eanch was 

 sold in 1911 to a colonization company, and the rem- 

 nant of the herd was sold to Miller & Lux in 1912. 

 The cow had to give way to the farmer. 



Mr. Henry Miller, of Miller & Lux, was never par- 



