THE CREST OF ANOTHER WAVE 817 



and the heifer was drawn by a lady resident from 

 whom Mr. Armour brought her back for $1,000. She 

 later went through the sale to Gov. Sparks at $2,500, 

 as we have already mentioned. She was got by 

 Beau Brummel Jr. 65073, of Gudgell & Simpson 

 breeding, a son of Beau Brummel 51817 out of Pe- 

 tunia 6th by Don Juan 11069. Her dam was by 

 Kansas Lad 36932, he by Beau Real out of Bertha 

 by Torro. Beau Brummel Jr. was by the Don Car- 

 los bull Beau Brummel out of a cow by Don Juan 

 by Anxiety 4th, so that Armour Eose was another 

 one of the many proofs now coming forward of the 

 efficacy of the in-bred Anxiety blood of that period. 

 Other Notable Winners.--Dale 's chief competitors 

 at Kansas City were VanNatta's Christopher, 

 Sotham's Thickset, Scott & March's Hesiod 29th, W. 



that sold for $52,600. He then took charge of A. A. Crane's Here- 

 fords at Osco, 111. Following this he was with F. P. Crane's 

 Herefords at Independence and Kansas City, Mo., for something 

 like three years. He was also herdsman for Robert Otley, an 

 old-time Shorthorn breeder, for a short time at Kewanee, 111. He 

 also fed for J. H. Spears at Tallula, 111., at the time of his clos- 

 ing-out sale in Dexter Park, Chicago, in the spring of 1877, going 

 next to Minneapolis to handle Col. W. S. King's Shorthorns at 

 Lyndale Farm. 



In 1880 Waters commenced work for T. L. Miller, Beecher, 

 111., handling first his purebred flock of Cotswold sheep, but in 

 the following May Mr. Miller decided to place his Hereford show 

 steers and some young bulls on exhibition at the Union Stock 

 Yards in Chicago and George was chosen to handle them. These 

 were kept in the back part of a livery barn on Halsted St., op- 

 posite the Transit House until Miller built his stable on Forty- 

 first St. At the close of the Fat Stock Show the steer Conqueror 

 was sold to "Billy" Smith of Detroit. George still thinks Con- 

 queror was the best steer alive and dead he ever saw. Upon 

 his return to Beecher, Mr. Miller having sold some yearling heif- 

 ers to W. S. VanNatta, Waters made an engagement at Fowler and 

 fed and showed the first Herefords brought out from the Hickory 

 Grove herd a yearling herd, two heifer calves and the imported 

 bull Tregrehan. 



For many years past George has been in business on his own 

 account. After farming and stock-raising at Windom, Minn., for 

 twenty years, on account of the illness of his wife he sold out 

 and is now located on the south shore of beautiful Lake Pulaski 

 amongst the butternuts, oaks, hard maples, elms and basswoods. 

 Here the grey and red squirrels play and scamper through the 

 trees, and he lives again in memory his boyish days in the Valley 

 of the Trent. 



