THE ABERDEEN ANGUS 291 



load for the last year bringing ;jS42.5o per hundred at auction, 

 the highest price up to that time ever paid for a fat carload. 

 Claus Krambeck of Iowa won the championship in 1904, 1905, 

 and 1907; Funk Brothers of Illinois in 1906 and 1908; L. H. 

 Kerrick of Illinois in 1900; Charles Escher of Iowa in 1902; 

 and Escher and Ryan of Iowa in 191 1 and 191 3. The carcass 

 contest on single steers at the International, excepting in 1900, 



Fig. 122. Fyvie Knight 2d, pure-bred Aberdeen- Angus steer, grand champion 

 over all breeds, grades, and crosses at the 1918 International Live-Stock Expo- 

 sition. Bred and exhibited by Purdue University, La Fayette, Indiana. From 

 photograph by Hildebrand, by courtesy of Professor J. H. Skinner 



has been won each year by a pure-bred or grade Aberdeen- Angus. 

 Five state agricultural colleges — Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, 

 Nebraska, and Ohio — have fed Aberdeen-Angus steers whose 

 carcasses were awarded the grand championship. At Smithfield, 

 in London, where the great British show of beef stock is held, the 

 Aberdeen-Angus has done hardly as well as at Chicago, but be- 

 tween 1900 and 19 1 7 grand championship on fat steer or heifer 

 has ten times gone to this breed. Certain factors have affected the 

 awarding of premier PhS^j2b9l^i,^M^^^-^'^^'- The animal 



