846 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



took rank at once as one of the best American-bred 

 show bulls of his day. VanNatta's Marmaduke, by 

 the old champion Christopher out of a Cherry Boy 

 Dam, a bull of pronounced substance, stood second. 

 In the two-year-old class John Letham, manager for 

 George P. Henry, won with Prime Lad 108911, a 

 bull which even then gave promise of the greatness 

 that was to come his way. Another showyard model 

 that was to win her way to future championships 

 was the two-year-old heifer Queenly, bred by Stew- 

 ard & Hutcheon and now owned by Messrs. Van- 

 Natta. She topped her class and later was adjudged 

 best female of any age. March On 6th was cham- 

 pion over all bulls. 



At Hamline the following week, under Ed Tay- 

 lor's judgment, March On 6th was again at the head 

 of his class, but in the bull championship the won- 

 deful character and quality of Prime Lad brought 

 Mr. Henry that high honor. This grand young bull 

 was sired by Kansas Lad Jr. out of Primrose, a cow 

 bred by Arthur Turner and imported by K. B. Ar- 

 mour. Gudgell & Simpson* won the blue ribbons 

 on both senior and junior yearling bulls with Belis- 



*George Shand was born near Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scot- 

 land, in 1845, left Scotland in 1882 and came to Canada, where he 

 lived for three years. He came to Gudgell & Simpson at Inde- 

 pendence, Mo., in March, 1885, when Anxiety 4th was in his 

 prime. He left Gudgell & Simpson's in 1896 and went to work 

 for Charles B. Dustin in Illinois, staying there until the Dustin 

 Shorthorn herd was sold in 1900. He came back to Independence 

 in 1900 and worked for J. M. Curtice eighteen months. At the 

 end of that time he went to v/ork for Alexander Fraser as fore- 

 man and ' herdsman of a Shorthorn herd and stayed there for 

 thirteen years, or until Mr. Fraser's death, when the herd was 

 dispersed. He then went to work for W. C. Thompson at Piano, 

 111., with a herd of Shorthorns, and stayed there until the fall of 

 1913, when he returned to Independence to make his home with 

 his son-in-law, George Hendry, who succeeded him as head cattle- 

 man on the Gudgell & Simpson farms. 



