852 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



lean Royal, as it has been called in recent years, 

 was now fairly on its feet. 



The Hereford exhibit was as irnpressive as ever. 

 March On 6th was the senior bull champion and 

 Benton Gabbert produced the two-year-old winner 

 in Columbus 33d, a bull of unusual scale and excep- 

 tional substance. Bright Donald was junior bull 

 champion, and Queenly the champion cow. 



On Dec. 8 and 9 at Kansas City Benton Gabbert 

 and Dr. Logan sold 76 head for an average of $227. 

 At this sale G. E. Reynolds gave $1,000 for Hesiod 's 

 Best.* 



Various breeders consigned cattle to a combina- 

 tion sale at Wabash, Ind., on Dec. 18, at which 63 

 head sold for an average of $225.70. 



A New International Champion. Mr. George 

 Leigh had brought over from Herefordshire one of 

 the biggest white-faced bulls of his time, Britisher, 

 an English showyard favorite bred by Allen Hughes 

 from Albion. He was entered at the Chicago Inter- 

 national of 1902, where he not only headed the 

 senior class by defeating his half-brother imp. Pro- 

 tector, Beau Donald 5th, Columbus 17th, and other 

 good ones, but received the senior and grand cham- 



. *Reference has been made to the fact that old imp. Hesiod, 

 the sire of Hesiod 2d, had a bad temper It took two men with 

 ropes and staffs to safely present him in the showyard at an old- 

 time Chicago exhibition. Speaking of this John Gosling is our 

 authority for the statement that the fighting spirit in this fine 

 bull was undoubtedly brought to the surface by the flopping of 

 the long white smocks frequently worn by the old English herds- 

 men. On windy days the flopping of a smock or of an overcoat 

 has been known to develop, for some occult reason, the combat- 

 iveness of bulls. Mr. Gosling gives it as his opinion, however, 

 that "the width between a bull's eyes has more to do with a 

 bull's disposition than the flopping of a woman's petticoat or a 

 smock." Once the fighting spirit is aroused, however, the staff 

 usually has to be brought into requisition as a measure of safety. 



