Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-01
IOWA WINS PRIZES
AT CHICAGO LIVE STOCK SHOW
HAWKEYE STATE 49,
HoNoRED.
Hereford Calf General Manager Leads
List Of Individual Prize Winners -
Ames Agricultural College Wins
New Honors.

sented by its agricultural college, led
the rest OF the states in prize-winning
at the live stock show yesterday. Its
record-holding fat Hereford calf, Gen
eral Manager, which was purchased
for the university by Arthur G.. Leon
ard. general manager of the Union
Stock Yards and Transit Company,
led the list of individual prize win
ners, receiving first and reserve in
the Hereford championship class.
General Manager, which is 10
months old and weighs 1,010 pounds,
has good chance to win the grand
championship today in competition
with the best cattle of the show.
Tama Jim, which was the nickname of
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
Iowa. before he moved to Washing
ton, won first prize in the yearling
Hereford grade, while Miss Skinner
won second in the same class. In adj
dition Iowa Agricultural college had
the champion Berkshire, the champion
Chester White and the champion
large Yorkshire in the swine depart
ment of the show.
Attendance Record Is Broken.
What was practically the opening
day of the stock show closed last
evening with over $4,000 persons as
the days tally Of visitors to the mon
ster exhibition of the finest collec-
ton of live stock ever assembled in
the world. This number exceeded the
admissions on the corresponding day
last year by over 1000.
Canadian exhibitors had walkaway
in the sheep department, winning in
almost every class. Among the prom
inent Canadian exhibitors We're Sir
George Drummond of Beaconfield,
Que, who had the champion South
down wether at the exposition.
In the horse department the judges
used up lot of time in rendering
their decisions owing to the high class
OF the exhibits. Only three classes
were passed on. Durham, Fletcher &
Coleman of Wayneville, ILL.,, winning
both first prizes in the Percheron
class, while the Pabst Brewing Com
pany Of Milwaukee created surprise
by winning against all of the stock
yards six-horse entries in the class for
single mare or gelding weighing over
1,760 pounds to cart
England Buys Champion Cob.
e. Vivian G, och OF London, Eng.
equerry in chief to King Edward VII
who came 70 this country to act as
| judge at the recent horse show TT New
York. attended the exposition ant
while looking over the exhibition took
a fancy to the brown trotting .brec
stallion Belford owned by NJ H. Tiche
nor & Co., and Immediately purchased
him for $4,000. 1t is Mr.. Gooch's in
tention to exhibit his new purchase al
the various horse shows in Europe ir
| the pace and action class and eventu
ally to place him in stud, believins
that such horse as this, crossed with
hackney mare, will produce su
perior family of road and park horses
Belgian Representative Pleased.
| A. Won Schelle, the representative o.
the king Of Belgium at the show, was
entertained at luncheon yesterday aft
ernoon at the Saddle and Sirloin clut
by the directors. In response to a toas
to the king Of Belgium by Arthur G
Leonard. general manager Of the
Union Stock Yards and Transit Co.
/ Mr.. Won Schelle said:
II have been granted the privilege
to say few words on the occasion O
the international show and I wish tt
thank you for your complimentary.
welcome in this great establishment
which is UNIQUE in the world and IL
which 1t is our desire that Belgium
should occupy a high commercial posi-
ton. take it as public testimon,
of friendship addressed to the Belgian
agriculturalists.
"Belgians feel at home among you
1t is in their sentiments that I raise
my glass and propose the health O
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the
| United States.
"Sympathies of nations, as individ
ual sympathies, go to those who are
better known. and feel that am do
ing my duty as loyal Belgian by en-
deavoring to increase among you es
TEEN for my fatherland."
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