Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-27
FINE HORSES At Ak[S
Indiana Firm Will Send Two
Car Loads to the Stock
Judging Course
WILL AID THE STUDENTS
Collection Will Include All the First
Prize and Champion Horses at the
Portland Exposition and Fat Stock
Shows = Prize Cattle Will Also Be
Shown and Studied.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Repubiican
Ames, Dec. 27.-The animal hus-
bandry department of the Iowa State
College has just received word from j
Crouch e Son, Lafayette, Ind, stating
that they will send two car loads Of
their famous Percheron, German Coach
and Belgian horses to Ames for demon
stration purposes during the shor,
course in stock judging, which begins
on January 2 and closes January ID
1906. This collection will include al
OF Messrs.. Crouch's first prize and
champion horses at the Portland ex-
position, American Royal Show at Kan
sas City, and the famous international
Live Stock Show at Chicago. No bet
ter collection OF horses can be seen
elsewhere in this country. The famous
German Coach stallion, Hannibal
who has never been beaten and for
whom $4,000 has been refused will be
in the bunch. No farmer can afford to
miss this opportunity to study horse
work.
The equipment in cattle, sheep and
swine will be equally as strong. Tha
college grand champions will be use
to demonstrate the best types. The
Iowa State College has fed and exhib-
tied one-third of all the grand cham
pion steers shown at the international!
Live Stock Exposition since Its inaug-
uration, a record which has never been
equaled or even approached by any
other college, breeder or firm of exhib-
itors in any part of the world.
The methods of selecting and feed
ing these champions will be given those
who attend the judging school.
State College Ronors.
The Iowa State College won signal
honors at the International Live Stock
Exposition last week. Black Rock, the
grand champion steer shown by the
college, is being exhibited this week
in Madison Square Garden, New York.
in charge of Mr.. w. A. Forbes, an an
imal husbandry student from Califor-
MIA. Black Rock was purchased In the
Chicago stock yards in December, 1904,
after he had been sold to one Of the
packers for slaughter. At the end OF
years fitting at the college he went
back to the international Live Stock
Exposition an outstanding winner, and
was conceded to be one of the best
grand champions ever seen in an
American show yard. Mr.. Thomas B.
Freshney, the English judge, pro-
nounced him typical Smithtield VIM
ner. His weight was 1850 pounds and
he sold for s25 per hundred
In addition to grand champion Black
Rock the college also won reserve
grand champion on General Manager,
q yearing Hereford; the grand cham
pion herd; and the grand champion
carcass on yearling Angus; thus Sc
curing the four most coveted prizes of
the steer show, a record that has new
er before been equaled by any exhibit
tor at the International or any similar
show General Manager was presented
to the college by Mr.. A. c. Leonard of
the Union Stock Yards and named in
his honor. General Manager has been
brought back to Ames and will be used
for short course work in stock judging
and kept another year for the instruc-
ton of students. These cattle were
fitted for the show by William Burl-
ton, the Chicago herdsman with the
assistance of the college students.