380 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



the historic section of the yards formerly known 

 as Dexter Park. Thus, not far from the scene of 

 our contemporary exhibitions of fat stock in the 

 International Hall, there were to be seen by gaping 

 crowds during the year 1879, and for several years 

 thereafter, show cattle such as had never before 

 been seen and such also as will probably never be 

 seen again. 



These Sherman steers were sent "down town" 

 in December for the edification of the visitors at 

 the second annual show. They walked into the 

 building, although locomotion in their case was no 

 joke, at a weight of over 2,800 pounds each. Need- 

 less to say they were the wonder of the week, so 

 far as the reporters of the daily press, the "city 

 folk," amateur farmers generally, and women and 

 children were concerned, and they got second money 

 in the senior car lot class. There was at that time 

 and for several years following, Omnipotency only 

 knows why, a prize for "heaviest fat steer," and 

 one of these stock yard monsters usually took down 

 the money. 



Shorthorns Win Again. — Mr. Gillett came to 

 the fore again with another brave array of his best 

 and made a clean sweep in the carload classes on 

 fours-and-over, threes, twos and yearlings, "rub- 

 bing it in" by taking both first and second in the 

 three-year-old section. He also gained the four- 

 year-old and the yearling prizes in the sweepstake- 

 by-ages competition among individual steers of all 

 breeds. 



