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senior heifer calves, 828 ; junior heifer calves, 634 pounds. These 

 weights are of show-ring animals and naturally are materially 

 heavier than those in ordinary flesh. 



The Herefords as meat producers have always ranked high. 

 For many years their meat held the highest place at the Smith- 

 field market in London. At the first fifty -two annual meetings 



FIG. 107. Black's Ohio Champion, a grade yearling Hereford range steer, held 

 by the noted feeder, D. W. Black, Lyndon, Ohio. Bred by Swenson Brothers of 

 Texas. One of the grand-champion car lot of feeder calves at the 1904 show 

 of the International Live-Stock Exposition. Also one of the first-prize car lot 

 of yearlings fed by Mr. Black for the 1905 show. Purchased by the Ohio State 

 University. From photograph by the author 



of the Smithfield Club, with various breeds in competition, 185 

 prizes went to Hereford steers or oxen and only 190 to all other 

 breeds or crosses combined. In recent years, however, the Here- 

 ford has not been so uniformly successful, owing to the influence 

 of Aberdeen-Angus and Shorthorn, but even to-day it may be 

 classed in the first rank. In the carcass contests on fat cattle at the 

 International during the period between 1907 and 1917 the Here- 

 fords did not attain first honors, securing second on two-year-olds 



