HISTOEY OF HEEEFQED CATTLE 



441 



H. Potts & Son taking the champion prize for 

 best steer in the show with the three-year-old 

 Shorthorn steer Starlight. Fowler & Van 

 Natta took champion prize over all breeds for 

 best two-year-old in the show with Benton's 

 Champion. Thos. Clark took champion prize 

 for best yearling beast in the show with the 

 steer Tuck. 



With the figures before us, it is well to make 

 the comparison that they enable us to do. The 

 champions by ages for the highest honors the 

 best beasts in the show were Starlight, Ben- 

 ton's Champion, and Tuck. Their ages and 

 weights were as follows : 



Age in G'n p'r Name of 



days. Wt. day. Exhibitor. Breed. Bullock. 



1382 2170 1.57 J. H. Potts & Son. G. S'horn. Starlight. 



911 1885 2.06 Fowler & VanNatta. G. H'ford. B. Cham. 



526 1240 2.35 Thos. Clark. G. H'ford. Tuck. 



1408 2350 1.66 Adams Earl. T. H'ford. Wabash. 



It will be noticed that Starlight is one year 

 three and one-half months older than Benton's 

 Champion, and only weighed 285 pounds more. 

 The only open question is the one of quality. If 

 Starlight was in quality much better 'than 

 Benton's Champion, it might be an excuse .or 

 reason why the championship should have been 

 given him, but we think that the steer Benton's 

 Champion was the better quality. And if Tuck 

 was slaughtered he would show a better quality 

 of meat than either, though he had not as much 

 weight for age as had Benton's Champion. 

 There is a tendency with judges to give the 

 awards to the larger bullock. 



It is perhaps well to compare the merits of 

 Starlight and Wabash. Wabash is- 116 days 

 or nearly four months older than Starlight, and 

 weighed 180 pounds the most. Although four 

 months older, he has made a gain per day of 

 1.66, while Starlight has only made 1.57. 



A feature at this show was the sale of Here- 

 fords by Mr. Adams Earl, of Lafayette, Ind., 

 making an average of nearly $600 nearly or 

 quite $100 more than the best sale of Angus or 

 Galloways. 



THE CHICAGO FAT STOCK SHOW, 1883, 

 opened (to quote the "Breeders' Journal" re- 

 port), with one of the largest exhibits ever made 

 since its first opening, and with more satis- 

 factory financial results. We have no need to 

 call the attention of our readers to the manage- 

 ment of the show held a year ago ; to the gross 

 and glaring frauds as to the ages of steers ex- 

 hibited by Shorthorn exhibitors, and the pro- 

 tection which they had from the president of 

 the board and the Shorthorn element in and 

 out of the board. 



We have no need to call the attention of our 

 readeis to the strenuous efforts made by the 



president and his associates to defeat the 

 resolution requiring all animals that should be 

 exhibited at future shows to undergo a critical 

 examination by a competent veterinary surgeon 

 and two competent and experienced breeders 

 of cattle, to determine their ages by the denti- 

 tion of teeth, being able to defeat the resolu- 

 tion at the January meeting, but were not able 

 to defeat it at the February meeting. 



The show opened on the 14th ult. with the 

 following entries: 95 Herefords or their 

 grades; about 300 Shorthorns or their grades; 

 a few Scots and Holsteins. In the classes 

 where all breeds competed, the premiums 

 awarded to Herefords were as follows: 



Grades or crosses: Best steer or spayed 

 heifer three and under four years, 1st, C. M. 

 Culbertson, Roan Boy, grade Hereford. Best 

 steer or spayed heifer two and under three 

 years, 1st, Fowler & Van Natta, Benton's 

 Champion, grade Hereford. Best steer one 

 and under two years, 2d, Thomas Clark, Tuck, 

 grade Hereford. Sweepstakes: Best steer 

 or cow in this class, C. M. Culbertson, Roan 

 Boy, grade Hereford. Sweepstakes: Best steer 

 or spayed heifer three years and under four, 

 judged by feeders, Mr. Culbertson's Roan Boy. 



HENRY F. RUSSELL. 

 Westonbury, Herefordshire. 



Grand Sweepstakes: Best steer or heifer any 

 age or breed, awarded to Mr. Culbertson's Roan 

 Boy. 



Best lot of eight cattle three years and under 

 four, all breeds competing, 1st, John B. Sher- 

 man, Hereford and Shorthorn. 



