Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — BIG HOGS AND CATTLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIG HOGS AND CATTLE.

THE AMERICAN FAT STOCK SHOW AT CHICAGO. Splendid Specimens of Beef and Pork— One of the Finest Displays of the Stockman’s Barns and Fields Ever Beheld— Bovine Monsters A Thousand-Pound Porker.

|HE finest display of the stockman’s fields and barns ever witnessed in the West was furnished by the American Fat Stock Association, at its recent exhibit in the Exposition Building at Chicago. There were fat steers

(from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, and other States. There were some extraordinary heavyweights among them. Col. C. M. Culbertson, of Newman, 111., exhibited a two-year-old steer that

tipped the beam at 2,145 pounds and one at 1,915 pounds. Adam Earle’s steer (Lafayette, Ind.) weighed 1,910, and one of Fowler & Bassett’s 1,870. Gudzell & Simpson owned a steer weighing 1,945 and George W. Henry one that pulled down 1,960; M. E. Jones & Bro.’s animal (Williamsville, Ill.) weighed 2,095. W. H. Rennick of Austerlitz, Ky., had three that weighed respectively 2,090, 2,020 and 1.98 u; M. L. Sweet of Grand Rapids, Mich., had one weighing 1,945, and B. Waddell of Marion, Ohio, a beauty drawing down the scales at 2,085. All were fine beasts, but they were Liliputians compared with the Shorthorn Jumbo, belonging to A. Sandusky, of Indianola. 111. He is a monster, and a handseme one, too. When he stepped on the scales they trembled, and it looked as if more props would have to be put under the platform. Jumbo is about 5 fee*- 10 inches in height, and weighs 2,850 pounds. He was light on this occasion, for he usually tips the

scales at 3,000 pounds, but travel and loss of appetite had affected his avoirdupois. The beauty ,of the show was Progjresa, a three-year-old Aberdeen Angus cow belonging to Leslie Burwell, of 'Cottage Grove, Wis. She is entirely Hack and is exquisitely shaped. It may

be news to those not educated in the points of cattle to know that the nearer the body of a cow approaches' a parallelogram the more perfect it is, and Progress is, in the language of her owner, “a parallelogramic cow.” Progress was bred by T. W. Harvey, of

Turlington, Neb., and is by Black Knight, a celebrated bull, her mother being Old Progress, a distinguished Aberdeen angus matron. Mr. Harvey has refused SIO,OOO for Black Knight.

Progress was bought by Leslie & Burwell when a calf for S4O(K and now weighs 1,950 pounds. ‘William Watson. one of the great authorities on

Aberdeen Angus cattle, who lately returned from Scotland, where he had been buying cattle for Mr. Harvey,

says that there is not a cow of any breed in the old country that can equal Progress. At Detroit and Peoria she took the sw’eepstakes prize for the best animal of any breed in the show'. She has never been beaten in the show ring. There w'ere other grand animals among the Herefords, shorthorns, Devons, Angus, Ayrshires, Galloways, and Holsteins. In Devons. Col. C. M. Culbertson, of Newman, 111., took the blue ribbon for the best steer, three years old and under four. With the red and white steer classes the tables were turned, B. Waddell getting first with Tom, Spot and Daisy; M. L. Sweet, having to content himself with seconds. Among the swine F. M. Strout, of McLean, Hl., secured the grand sw'eepstakes for the best barrow in the show with Nasby, a fine Berkshire, and, as was expected, Welch, the 1,000-pound hog belonging to E. J. Hollenbeck, was awarded the premium for the fattest and heaviest hog. Of the small Yorkshires, which may be called the pugs of the pig tribe, there was quite a display. They are neat-looking animals, but their facial expression is, to say the least of it.

homely in'the extreme. A. F. Chapman <!C Co., of Sugar Grove, 111., were the largest exhibitors of this breed. There was a good display of sheep, Southdowns, Shropshires and Oxfords among the short-wooled and Cotswolds, Leicesters, Lincolns and Merinos of the long-wooled being represented. The poultry exhibit was a large one, and good judges pronounced it the finest display ever made. The dairy products constituted one of the most interesting features of the show.

The poultry show was a remarkably fine one, and all the different breeds were well represented. In Plymouth Rocks the display was immense, there being some half-dozen exhibitors with fine birds. There were some beautiful white Plymouth Rocks shown by F. M. Munger and the Eureka Poultry Company. The golden, silver and white Wyandottes made a good show, and there was a big exhibit of brown and white leghorns. The turkeys were a magnificent lot, the bronze class being very fine, while the white, black and slate colors were but little inferior.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

JUMBO.

A CHESTER WHITE EXHIBIT.

PRIZE COW.

THE THOUSAND-POUND HOG.

“AIN’T HE A DANDY?”

THE JUDGES.