OTHER MAKERS OF WESTERN CATTLE HISTORY 489 



tion of Militant rests most prominently upon the 

 fact that he was the sire of the two champion show 

 cows Mischief Maker 97907 and Miss Caprice 

 109725. Mischief Maker was the most sensational 

 animal of this herd when as a yearling she was 

 awarded the champion prize at Kansas City and at 

 the International at Chicago in 1900. Dandy Rex, 

 besides winning many other first prizes in class and 

 in groups, was awarded the championship prize, the 

 Armour trophy, as the best Hereford bull in the 

 show at Kansas City in 1901. He did service in 

 the herd after his competitors in the showring upon 

 that occasion had passed from the field of use- 

 fulness. 



Possibly the most remarkable animal bred in this 

 herd was the show cow Mischievous 71758, in the 

 showring every year from the time she was a year- 

 ling until she was a six-year-old cow. She dropped 

 her first calf, that extraordinary heifer Mischief 

 Maker, when two years old and her second calf 

 when three years old and she produced a calf 

 regularly for many years and one pair of twins. In 

 her showing she was either at the top or close to 

 it; at the close of her showyard career at Chicago 

 in 1901 she weighed 2,000 pounds. 



These two animals, Dandy Rex and Mischievous, 

 stable and showyard companions, might be taken 

 as living refutations of some of the claimed evils 

 of close breeding. They both had three close-up 

 crosses of Anxiety 4th in their pedigrees, they both 

 successfully ran the gauntlet of the leading shows 



