The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-03
A ROYAL STEER.
King Ellsworth Sold for $3.50 to
Chicago Packer.
Had Won Championship at In
ternatiOnal Show.
A KANSAS PRODUCT.
Raised and Entered by State
Agricultural College.
Chicago Paper Tells Story of
Awarding Blue Ribbon.

Chicago, Dec. 3.-King Ellsworth,
the two year Aberdeen Angus steer
which was awarded the grand cham
pionship at the International Live
Stock exposition, has been sold to a
local packer for 1850. This is at the
rate of 20 cents per pound. the weight
OF the prize winner being 1850
T, pounds.
The new grand champion was ex-
hibited by the Kansas Agricultural
college and was raised near Bloom
ington, Ill.
The Chicago Drovers and Farmers
Journal has the following interesting
story about the Judging of King Ellis
worth, the Kansas prize winner:
king Ellsworth is king of the In
ternational. Judge Heap, the for
eign expert of Manchester, England,
has declared the magnificent 2-year-
old steer owned by the Kansas Agri-
cultural college at Manhattan, as the
grand champion of the 1909 Inter-
national Live Stock exposition. Great
enthusiasm prevailed in the Dexter
Park Amphitheater when Judge Heap
pronounced King Ellsworth the pre-
mier steer of the show, and stockmen
and herdsmen, generally speaking,
declared the decision made by the
foreign Judge the best that could be
made
King Ellsworth Magnificent Animal.
King Ellsworth was calved Sept. 8,
19Oo, anu the sire OF the steer was
Fivy's Forester 1880. The dam is
Queen Eta Vista 4293S, and is own
ed by the animal husbandry depart
ment of the Kansas Agricultural col
lege. The reserve grand champion
also went to the Kansas Agricultural
Prince Duchess 1886, and the dam
Queen Wonder 53847. Symboleer was
also shown in the yearling class To
show both the grand champion and
the reserve champion is a high honor
for the Kansas agricultural school
and the men who had to do with the
raising of the champions of the show
are to be highly commended.
Conjecture was rife along the ring
side as to where the honors would
land; but most of those who had watch
ed the judging closely considered that
main competition lay between the 2
year-old rure-bred Angus, King Ellis
worth. owned by the Kansas college,
and the 2-year-old grade Angus, DR..
Gwinn, owned by Mart L Meow of
Washington Courthouse, Ohio When
the first and second prize winners lined
up for champion 2-year-old steer of the
show, it did not take Mr.. Heap, the
foreign Judge, long to tie the purple
ribbon 10 the Kansas animal. That put
the Mccoy steer out of the race, and
every one felt that it was plain sailing
for the Kansas entry.
In the next class, champion yearling
steer OF the SHOW. kansas college again
took first place on a pure bred Angus,
Symboieer. In the class champion calf
of the show the University of Missouri
landed first with a grade Hereford De-
Serter.
The final grand championship race
lay between these three animals-King
Ellsworth, Sym oleer and Deserter.
When they were placed side by side the
spectators crowded in around the group
and waited for the foreign judge to
make his decision. He passed around
the three steers a few times and finally
| indicated to the clerk that the purple
ribbon should be placed on the older
| Angus animal The grand champion
| ship of the tenth international had been
won. Cheers and congra tulations greet
ed the smiling professor from the Sun
! flower state. who proudly led his prize
steer from the ring.
| 1.-The Angus steer was very uniform
| in quality" said the foreign judge. HE
| is firm in flesh and has more finish than
| the other animals shown against him
| He is a very good animal"
Praise for Professor Kinzer.
| King Ellsworth 1021S5, the grand
! champion steer of the tenth Interna-
| tionaL is a pure-bred Aberdeen Angus
! The Kansas Agricultural college pur-
| chased this steer last year after the
| International show of Mitchell G. Lance
! where he had won second prize as g
! yearling. The steer was fed on corn
bran and alfalfa principally alfalfa and