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City and American fat-stock shows. He was not made grand cham- 

 pion, but at Chicago was awarded sweepstakes as the best three- 

 year-old beast passed on by butchers. In 1885 the steer Sandy, 

 shown by Gudgell & Simpson, won the yearhng championship of 

 the Kansas City and Chicago shows and also the medal offered by 

 the Polled Cattle Society of Scotland. In 1886 Sandy was cham- 

 pion steer of the Kansas City show, winning numerous prizes for 

 being the best steer shown. At nine hundred and thirty-nine 

 days he weighed 1885 pounds. In 1887, at the same show. Black 

 Prince of Turlington, a famous bullock exhibited by T. W. Harvey, 

 won the sweepstakes over the steer Dot shown by Messrs. Estill 

 of Missouri, though the next year, at the American Fat-Stock 

 Show at Chicago, Dot was grand champion over all breeds. For 

 some years thereafter the exhibit of Angus steers did not attract 

 much attention, the cattle market being very quiet. The Inter- 

 national Live-Stock Exposition at Chicago, with its first show in 

 1900, established a new arena for beef competition. From that 

 year up to 1919 inclusive, excepting 19 14 and 191 5, the leading 

 fat-stock show on the American continent has been held under its 

 supervision. It is interesting to note that at the eighteen Inter- 

 national shows held up to the year 19 19 inclusive, the grand- 

 champion steer in eleven contests was an Aberdeen- Angus. 



In the grand-champion contest in carload lots held at the Inter- 

 national during the past eighteen years, fourteen times this award 

 has gone to the Aberdeen-Angus. E. P. Hall of Illinois won 

 the carload championship in 1910, 1912, 1916, and 1917, the 



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