834 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



bert's Columbus 17th going to Frank Rockefeller 

 for $5,050. C. B. Smith paid $1,025 for the Ar- 

 mour yearling heifer Saint Justina. On Nov. 9 the 

 Elmendorf herd was closed out at Omaha, the 66 

 head offered commanding an average of $207. On 

 Dec. 11 and 12 at Kansas City Messrs. Armour and 

 Funkhouser disposed of 106 head at an average of 

 $350, Frank Rockefeller giving $1,125 for imp. 

 Busybody and $1,025 for Beau Real's Maid. At 

 Chicago while the initial International was in prog- 

 ress 95 head sold for an average of $419, Moffatt 

 Bros, paying $3,500 for VanNatta's March On 

 13th, C. A. Jamison $3,150 for Clem Graves' Dolly 

 5th and J. C. Adams $2,800 for Lady Help. 



The First International. The Kansas City show, 

 reinforced by contributions from other herds in; 

 the States and Canada, was repeated at the formal 

 opening of the International Live Stock Exposition 

 at Chicago the first week in December, 1900. 



Dandy Rex headed the aged bulls again, with 

 Dale, Improver and Christopher following in the 

 order .named. Dale was made senior champion, 

 however, later in the week. C. G. Comstock's 

 Gentry Lars, son of Clark's old champion Lars, 

 headed the two-year-olds, and 0. Harris of Harris, 

 Mo., had second on Goodenough by Benjamin Wil- 

 ton. Perfection again led the yearlings, and Soth- 

 am's Thickflesh, by Corrector, was best senior bull 

 calf. 



Columbine again beat Dolly 5th in aged cows, 

 although the latter was subsequently made senior 



