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of the old-fashioned steer ever exhibited, with table back and 
massive frame. Perhaps the greatest service to modern Ameri- 
can steer showing was the strong stand he took favoring the 
elimination of three and four-year-old steers from the shows. 
In fact by 1885, Mr. GILLETT was marketing all of his cattle 
by the time they had reached thirty months of age. His example 
elicited a number of noteworthy pupils and Mr. D. M. Monrncer 
of Iowa, J. G. Impopen of Illinois, and a host of others carried 
forward the standard and precedents he had set. The relief of 
a bullock’s head standing out from the keystone of the arch at 
the main entrance to the stock yards at Chicago, is a carving 
from a clay model of John Sherman, his first champion, named 
for the founder of the yards. 
In September, 1876, he made his first shipment of live cattle 
to England, one hundred head averaging 2100 pounds. Between 
1876 and 1880 he shipped 1,300 steers to the Liverpool and 
London markets. In 1879 one of his shipments destined for 
Britain was diverted at New York by Wituiam Ottman & Co. 
of the Fulton Market, at a then sensational cost of $6 per cwt. 
These were exhibited at the MEssrs. OTTMAN’s stalls in the great 
Durham Premium Christmas Cattle and Sheep Exhibit at the 
Madison Square Gardens and won extreme praise. In 1881 he 
shipped to Liverpool by the steamer “Thanemore” 122 bullocks 
averaging 1963 pounds, that brought him a $200 average price 
or a total of $24,400, about $5,000 more profit than Mr. GILLETT 
figured he could have made if he had disposed of them in Amer- 
ica. The mammoth McMullen and thirty other show steers 
featured his 1882 shipment, which consisted of 167 animals. 
His methods of outdoor feeding of steers, and of keeping his 
cows and calves on bluegrass pasture without shelter, being fed 
only in the severest weather, produced a very hardy strain of 
cattle. He believed that perfect freedom and exercise in the 
open air were necessary to produce a full and healthy develop- 
