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season of 1902 without a slip. She was senior and 

 also grand champion over females of all ages at the 

 International, gaining the honor over the junior 

 champion Beau's Queen. And thereby hangs a tale: 

 Queenly was by Beau Brummel out of the VanNatta- 

 bred Fowler Queen by old Fowler, and Beau's 

 Queen was out of the same dam' and sired by a son 

 of Beau Brummel ! And here they stood, sisters in 

 blood, the two lone contestants at the greatest show 

 of the year for the highest honor that could fall to a 

 Hereford female. 



The Giltners Buy Britisher.— At Chicago on Jan. 

 7 and 8, 1903, in a combination sale 90 head were 

 sold for an average of $265, the top price being 

 $3,800 paid by Giltner Bros., Eminence, Ky., for 



fellow and Sir Edward. Some of the show bulls at Rossland 

 Park, which Fluck was partly instrumental In producing, were 

 Hesiod 2d, Sitting: Bull and Caractacus Wilton. In 1890 Rossland 

 Park was sold and the stock was disposed of by auction. 



Mr. Fluck then embarked in business on his own account, buy- 

 ing out the old-established herd of George F. Baker of Oakland 

 Stock Farm, Goodenow, 111. In 1893 at the world's fair he showed 

 a good yearling steer which took second prize, a bull calf, and 

 the two-year-old Sitting Bull, which won first in class and was 

 finally made champion over all breeds. At St. Louis shortly 

 after, Mr. Fluck sent down Sitting Bull, the calf and others and 

 took blue ribbons. This same year at the fat stock show in Chi- 

 cago he won a cup offered by "The Breeder's Gazette" for best 

 steer bred and fed by exhibitor with the yearling Percy that 

 weighed 1,610 pounds. Percy was second to Cherry Brandy at the 

 world's fair, but won over him at this show two months later. 

 The next year the show was held at Tattersall's on Wabash Ave., 

 where Percy won this cup again. 



Mr. Fluck has shown at every International since its incep- 

 tion, and won a sweepstakes over all breeds 'three years in suc- 

 cession. He bred and fed the grand champion Peerless Wilton 

 39th's Defender in 1906, the reserve grand champion Fluck's Ex- 

 pectation in 1904, and champion herd and the get-of-sire in the 

 same year. At the St. Louis exposition in 1904 he was the only 

 Hereford breeder to win a championship over all breeds. This 

 was taken by the steer Fluck's Expectation. Looking back over 

 his career Harry says: "There are two achievements which I 

 am not a little elated over— one to be the first man of the 

 Hereford fraternity to select, feed and ishow a Hereford steer 

 that was made champion over all breeds, and another to have 

 taken the Herefords into the state of Kentucky in the '80's and 

 won over Shorthorns in strong competition against many of the 

 Illustrious breeders of that day." 



