Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — Hoosier Stock Men Capture Many Prizes at Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Hoosier Stock Men Capture Many Prizes at Chicago.

A California cross-bred Hereford Shorthorn yearling steer, which traces his ancestry back to Indiana, was awarded the grand championship at the International Liver Stock Exposition. The steer, California Favorite, owned and bred by the University of California, was sired by Prince Lad 11th, a Hereford bull, bred by Frank VanNatta, of Lafayette, Ind. California Favorite had never been fed a grain of corn, having been reared on a mixture of barley, oats, bran and alfalfa hay. He will be slod at auction on Thursday. Indiana scored a grand slam w’hen the judges«ennpiHiced their awards in the Polled Durham cattle. The winning 2-year-old was Mist, shown by C. E. Simons & Son, of Geneva, Ind. the two yearlings saw Jennie Marshall, exhibited by W. H. Miller & Sons, Mulberry, Ind., in first place, with Princess Violet, another Simons entry, second. W. W. Rose & Sons, of Rossville, had a dandy roan calf in Millmore Victor, which beat another of this class by the Millers. “Jesse C. Andrews, of West Point, Ind., made a killing in the sheep department. Besides taking the championship in the fat Shropshire class, two firsts and two seconds, the Andrews Southdowns won one first and two second prizes. Tn the horse department J. Crouch & Son, Lafayette, exhibited Belgian drafters which took first prize in seven classes, second in six, third in one and fourth in another. In only two classes of Percherons judged the Crouch firm was awarded fine first and one third. Pure-bred cattle raised on the farm of Purdue University were among the prize winners. Purdue took two firsts with Shorthorns and made a good showing with Angus and cross bred 3.