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THE BOOK OF LIVE STOCK CHAMPIONS. 



TROTTING SIRE— BINGEN, 2: 06 14. At Louisville, Kv., Sep- 

 tember 26, 189 8, BINGEN, then five years old, won the fastest six-heat 

 race, taking a record of 2:06% in the first heat, wihich was the world's 

 champion record for five-year-old trotters. Later he reduced his record 

 to 2:061/4. BINGEN is making a wonderful record as sire of trotters. 



THREE- YEAR-OLD SHORTHORN BEEF CATTLE — First-prize 

 winners at Chicago International Show, 1902. Fed by B. F. Harris, of 

 Champaign, 111. This load averaged 1,694 pounds and was sold at 

 $8.75 per 100 pounds to the late Simon O'Donnell, of Pitteburg. Pa., 

 for the Pittsburg Provision Company. Mr. Harris in his day, for flfty 

 years, was one of the foremost cattle feeders in the United States. 



