Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1916 — INDIANA A LEADER IN SHOW AWARDS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA A LEADER IN SHOW AWARDS

With Illinois and lowa, She Captured Nearly All the Notable Stock » Prizes. The aggregate honors of the greatest international live stock show yet held in Chicago, closed Saturday with a total attendance of 250,000. The bulk of the honors in the prize ring went to Illinois, lowa and Indiana, in about the order named, with California cutting in. California took the greand champion fat steer and also the reserve fat steer honors. Ohio won the grand championship on carcasses and Canada and some other states came in strong, but the three I’s stand out above all other states and contestants in cattle, sheep and hogs. The breeding honors really lie between Indiana aauFTowa. It is too early to figure out or approximate how many thousands of dollars the Indiana cattle, sheep, hogs and horsemen are bringing home. . _ . ' Notable among the Indiana leaders are J. C. Andrew, of West Point, who swept the sheep classes; Ivan R. Hurst, of Lowell, who displayed the best pen of barrows in the boys’ open stock feeding contest; J. Crouch & Son, of Lafayette, who won many prizes in the Belgian and Percherdn classes; W. E. Harton & Son, of Rushville; Warren’T. McCray, of Kentland, who made a good showing of Hereford cattle. John R. Lewis, of Rensselaer, Is mentioned prominently in the Hampshire hog class and was among the big Indiana winners. Frank Vanatta, of Fowler, was the Hereford show judge. The last of the international show’s car lot sales of fat cattle, sheep an<l hogs have been made and the price averages would sober a drunken sailor, for the world has never seen such meat prices befpre. The total shows a grand average of $15.91 a hundredweight for the forty-nine carloads of premier beef cattle sold in two days.