Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1915 — FAMOUS SHOW HERD ON INDIANA TOUR [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS SHOW HERD ON INDIANA TOUR

Warren T. McCray’s Blue Blooded Herefords Will Attend Many County Fairs in State. Warren T. McCray, president of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, will send the flower of his immense herd of pure-bred Herefords on a long tour of Indiana county fairs this summer and fall, that farmers and live stock breeders may see what is possible for them to accomplish in improving the quality of their own stock at home. The show herd includes about fifty of the flower of over 400 Herefords which Mr. McCray has on his Orchard Lake Stock Farm near Kentland, and county fairs that are now on the itinerary of the Indiana tour are Columbus, Connersville, Rushvilie, Shelbyville, Lebanon, Frankfort, Lafayette, Crawfordsvillt, Terre Haute, North Manchester, and others will be added before the fair season closes. Mr. McCray will make the tour with his herd.

Mr. McCray has in ten years advanced from an obscure breeder of Herefords until he now leads the world. He began his Hereford activities in 1905 with five animals. As his herd has grown in numbers and quality his stock farm has increased until it now includes 1,500, and it is regarded as one of the best equipped breeding farms in the United States. The first pure-bred bull he bought cost $2,500 and it dies before he had obtained much service from it. Since last March Mr. McCray has sold $85,000 worth of his stock to breeders scattered from New York to California, and from Minnesota to Georgia and Texas. One bull was sold for $7,500 to a Montana breeder. While the McCray cattle will be shown in all of the Hereford classes at the county fair, the chief purpose of the tour is not to win ribbons. It is to be an educational tour, from

which Mr. McCray hopes all Indiana breeders will obain inspiration that will stimulate them to greater activity in raising; the standard of their own breeds, ait hpme. The he?d will spend the w.eek of September 6th at the Indiana state fair, where they will compete for championship* honors, and will be seen in, the day parades of livestock and in the night horse show.