Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-12
STATE COLLEGE AT ST. LOUIS.
Herd OF Blue-Gray Calves Being
Brought Into Condition for Show.


Herd Of Blue-oray Calves Being
Brought Into Condition for Show.
Ames, March 9.--In common with
the other departments, the animal hus
bandry department of the Iowa Agri
cultural College co-operates with the
Iowa Commission of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in 1904, to make
the live stock exhibit of this state
one CT its most successful as well az
attractive features, and one unparal,
leled in the history of live stock dis
plays in the past With this end in
view, herd of thirty blue-gray calves,
by far the most promising lot Of ami.
mails ever seen on the college farm.
is now being raised by the department
under advantages unequalled before.
In one of the largest stalls in the
newly built stock barn, segregated
from its companions, possessing the
build and weight of a well grown
steer, is seen Shaggy jack" the lead.
er of this magnificent herd Of calves,
wonderful Galloway type only five
months old and weighing better than
COO pounds, having made the phenome-
nal gain Of 200 pounds in the last
fifty-eight days. In point of both quail.
ity and weight. Shaggy Jack" easily
surpasses Shamrock" at the same
age, which, fed on the college farm,
was the grand champion of the re-
cent international live stock exhibit
at the union Stock Yards, Chicago,
and it Is believed by those charged
with its care, that he will maintain
the same standard Of superiority in
the future.
Besides Shaggy Jack" several 9TH
er calves In this herd bid fair to Guido
Shamrock" All these young ami.
mails will be fed and taken care of
under the direction of Prof. w. J.
Kennedy, head of the department, I'M
til matured and snlpped to st. Louis
In the spring Of 1904 for the Iowa
live stock exhibit at the worlds fair.
A little over a year ago the Union
stock years in Chicago furnished the
animal husbandry department of this
college sufficient funds to purchase
sfty head of Galloway heifers and
pure bred Shorthorn bull, its pur,
pose being to conduct cross-breeding
experiment with the object of pro-
ducing blue-grey cattle which have
been SO prominent in British live
stock exhibitions in fat stock classes.
Nothing has been done on this CONT
nent in these lines, and the present
work Of the department is new fea.
ture from the American standpoint
and one which will attract much at.
tention from the stock raisers through
ont the country.
When the aforesaid donation was
made, the pure white Shorthorn bull,
Doctor White" was purchased from
the famous Shorthorn breeding estab-
lishment of Robins & Sons, Horace,
Ind, he having won first prize from
the Kentucky state fair as a calf He
weighing now 1000 pounds and not
yet two years old. The Galloway
cows, which numbered fifty, were Sc
lected by Prof. Kennedy from the
herds of e. H. White, Baskerville, Ia,
and o. II. Swigart, Champaign, Ill.,,
and David McCray, Ontario, Canada.
Exact data is being kept of all the
feed eaten and gains made; in fact
everything pertaining to the develop.
ment Of these calves, which in addi.
ton to their value for exhibition pur.
poses, furnish excellent material for
experimental work along animal hus,
bandry lines. They will be used in
some exhaustive feeding work which
is now commenced along lines of
Baby Beef" A carload of these ami
mails will also be shipped to be ex.
hibited at the next international live
stock exhibit in Chicago next fall.