Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17
National Live Stock Show
Bv Frederic j. Haskin

| Va ~ AldNCttft anu tOulu Walk u illiiS
| in thirty minutes, hitched to a wagon
There is picture of Jerry showing
his driver seated on a rocking chair
on his massive back. Jerry seemed to
take 1t as matter Of course.
Some of the yields of dairy cows of
the different breeds, as shown at the
livestock expostions seem almost in
credible, The Guernsey COW. Lilly
Ella, gave more than twelve times her
weight in milk In a single year, and
yielded 912 pounds of butter in tho
same length of time. Another COW of
tho Guernsey breed in one year gave
12,S12 pounds of milk and S29 pounds
Of butter. A New York Holsteln COW
gave 5S4 pounds of milk in seven days.
from which was made 294 pounds of
Gutter. At this rate she would have
given over $4,000 pounds of milk In
twelve months, and would have made
nearly 1900 pounds of butter. But no
one has done as well as that for
whole year. The Holstein> COW Cybele,
owned by a Meadville, Pa, stockman,
yielded 1901 pounds of milk In one
year. But even this record for a year
was excelled by the Guernsey COW
Yeska Sunbeam. During the year end
ing September so, 1905, she gave 1920
pounds of milk, from which was gath
cred butter fat equivalent TO
1000 pounds of commercial butter.
This Is probably the worlds record in
milk and butter production for q year.
When 1t comes to the matter of beef,
one of the worlds record prices for
beef on the hoof was paid for the first
champion steer at the first annual in
ternational exposition. The packers
who had the honor of cutting up his
carcass paid $3.50 pound for him, live
weight. IL the porterhouse of seven
,fa gxa 80 n
pound, what must the porterhouse
from that steer have cost the ultimate
consumer?
st. Louis has one of the most re-
markable horses in the world, and he
has been exhibited at many stock
shows. He Is known as THE Famous
Try Horse, Dan" During many years
he has been used to try out the horses
that come to the st. Louis market. The
prospective purchaser bitches the
horses he expects to buy with Dan, to
see IL he will work well or not. Old
Dan never gets excited, and never let's
his new teammate get on his nerves.
Many thousand horses have been hitch
ed by the side of Dan and thus tried
out. The old fellow goes about his
business with almost human intelli-
gence, and seems to know what it's all
about as well as any one around the
horse market.
The st. Louis exposition went down
in history as the greatest mule show
In the history of the world, both as TO
the excellence of the exhibits and as
to the number of mules shown. One
firm captured the majority of tho
championships in the different classes.
Since that time the exhibition of mules
and their relatives has become more
popular, and they will claim their
share of attention at the International
show.
The livestock seen on American soil,
so far as the domestic species arc con-
cerned, springs from original importa-
tions from the old world. Yet Amer
lea was the original home of nearly
every domestic animal. The indisput-
able records of the geologic past, writ
ten by nature, tell a plain story OF how
the new world was Inhabited by the
ancestors of the horse and other do
mestic animals. Yet when the men of
the old world as we know it first set
eyes on the new there was neither
horse nor COW. The Spanish brought
the first horses, and from them have
grown the innumerable breeds.
Such livestock shown as that now
in progress in Chicago have a great
educational value. Shelby county,
Missouri, in 1893, produced the lamb
which won the first prize at the Chi
cago Worlds fair. The grower knew
that he had fine lot OF sheep, he
knew that he had won many county
fair prizes, and he had some notion of
his relative standing at the state fair.
But he had no idea what a worlds
prize meant. Immediately after the
blue ribbon was awarded an English
man asked him TO put a price on the
lamb The Missourian didn't wish to
SELL so he asked what he considered
to be a prohibitive price. The Eng
lishman handed over the money in
frantic haste and for $3.50 obtained
possession of a lamb which he refused
to sell for $4,000. Since that time too
many big shows have been held-no
Missourian will make that mistake
now,
Tomorrow-The Anti-SalOOn League.