Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-09-18

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Royal The Big Stock Show
The American Royal Live
Stock show, which will be held
this year October II to 16 at the
Kansas City stock yards, was in
stituted as pure bred beef cat
tie exhibition and sale several
years ago. And these features
continue to be the leading feat
ures of the show, if any depart
ment could be said to be given
prominence in an event in which
all the kinds of live stock are rep
mems. The four beef breeds,
Hereford, Shorthorn, Galloway
and Angus, were in the early
Royals, and these are the breeds
that constitute the pure bred cat
tie department of the Royal 1t
is upon these breeds that the
great beef industry rests, and
from them that all the range and
scrub cattle of the nation have
obtained the blood that has put
them in their present high class
as feeders.
The four cattle departments
Superintendence.o the national
association of breeders of those
cattle, and officials of these asso-
Citations manage the exhibits.
G. r. Thomas, secretary of the
American Hereford Cattle Breed
ers' association, is superintend-
ent of the Hereford division, and
his assistant is j. w Rouse,
known to all Hereford breeders.
B. 0. Cowan, whose name has
been identified with Shorthorn
progress. is superintendent of
the Shorthorn division. with Roy
Groves as assistant. r. w.
Brown, secretary of the Gallo
way association, is superintend-
ent of the Galloway division, and
Chas.. Gray. secretary of the Alb
erdeen Angus association, is Supe
erintendent of the Angus divis-
ion.
The public sales of these
breeds are also under the direc-
tion of officials of the associations
and consist of choice offerings.
The purpose of the sales is to
compliment the influence of the
show in the improvement of cat
tie blood; the visitor sees what
good blood can do in the attain
ment of desirable ends in raising
cattle and can find in the sales
the animals that will bring his
own herd up to the desired
standard.
DRAFT HORSES
The draft and coach horse de-
partment of the American Royal,
like the other departments, is
under the control of the national
associations of the breeds. This
fact is a guarantee of the fairness
of awards, and of the presence at
the Royal of the very best exam
pies of breeding. The Percher-
ons, French Coach and Shires
will be represented at the Royal
in these classes this year.
w. A. Elgin of Platte City, Mo-,
is again superintendent of the
mule department of the Royal,
which has assumed large proper
tlons in recent years.
SWINE
N. @. Gentry, president of the
Royal. is also superintendent of
the swine department. Berk-
shires, Chester Whites and Dur
oc Jerseys will be represented
here, with Frank S. Springer,
w. w. Waltmire and C. L. Carter,
respectively, the superintend
ents of the divisions.
THE POULTRY SHOW.
The poultry show at the Amer
ican Royal, Kansas City, this
year will be on more elaborate
scale than last year. In 1908 the
department was largely an ex-
pertinent, and the answer to
many requests for it's introduc
tion. It had however prizes on
ly for breeding pens. The pop
ularity of the feature required
it's continuance This year priz-
es have been added for individu
al birds. and the show will there
fore be doubly valuable to the ex-
hibitors, and interesting to the
visitors, arranged on the same
plan as other big poultry shows.
Thos. A. Southard, 1915 Genes