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high at the shows of 1909. The state fairs revealed 

 overwhelming excellence in the Hereford section, 

 and the annual round-up at Kansas City in October 

 was indeed a battle royal. 



The extraordinary career of the VanNatta cattle 

 in the American showyard is essentially one of the 

 dominant notes of this volume. Indeed, such con- 

 tinuity of successful effort finds few parallels in 

 bovine histories, and no record that fails to reflect 

 this fact would present the truth. Prime Lad ' ' The 

 Great" was now dead, but how his sons were march- 

 ing on! At the Kansas City and Chicago shows of 

 1909 Prime Lad 9th was first-prize aged bull and 

 headed the first-prize aged herd over the Cargill & 

 Price, McCray, Makin Bros, and J. L. VanNatta 

 group. In the get-of-sire contest four Prime Lads 

 were first, not only at Kansas City but at Chicago, 

 in competition with the get of Perfection Fairfax, 

 Beau Paragon, Princeps 4th, Young Beau Brummel 

 and Prince Eupert 8th. At Chicago Prime Lad 9th 

 not only headed the senior bull class but was senior 

 champion as well. The great Prime Lad cow Mar- 

 garet headed her class at both big shows, and at 

 Kansas City was both senior and grand champion 

 female. Then there was the two-year-old heifer Iva. 

 Moreover, McCray 's Prime Lad 16th youngsters 

 were pulling ribbons in the senior bull calf classes 

 and the best of these, Gay Lad 6th, was one of a 

 pair of calves sold to "Joe" Green for the Charles 

 P. Taft ranch in southeast Texas for $2,500, the 

 transaction taking place at the International. And 



