Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-19
Some Things You Want to Know
The National Live Stock Show.

a wagon. There Is a picture Of Jerry
showing his driver seated on a rocking
chair on his massive back. Jerry seemed
to take It az a matter Of course.
some Of the yields Of dairy eows OF the
different breeds. as shown at the live stock
expositions, seem almost Incredible. The
Guernsey COW. Lilly Ella, gave more than
twelve times her weight in milk in a single
year. and yielded 92 pounds OF butter in
the same length Of time. Another COW Of
the Guernsey breed In one year gave i2.St2
pounds Of milk and 500 pounds Of butter.
a New York Holstein COW gave 5St pounds
OF milk in seven days. from which was
made 2o4 pounds OF butter. At this rate
she would have given over $500 pounds Of
milk in twelve months, and would have
made nearly 1000 pounds Of butter. but no
COW has done as well as that Tor a whole
year. The Holstein COW Cybele, owned by
a Meadvile IPa) stockman, yielded 1904
pounds OF milk in one year. But even this
record Cor a year was excelled by the
Guernsey COW Yeska Sunbeam. During the
year ending September 30, 1905. she gave
1920 pounds OF milk, from which was
gathered butter fat equivalent 20 LOO
pounds Of commercial butter. This is
probably the worlds record in milk and
butter production for a year.
When it 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 International exposl.
ton. The packers who had the honor Of
cutting up his carcass paid $3.50 a pound
for him, live weight. II the porterhouse
of a 1-cent steer sells for % cents a pound,
what must the porterhouse from that steer
have cost the ultimate consumer
ST. Louis has one of the most remark
able 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 horse he expects to buy with
Dan, to see II he will work well or not.
Did Dan never gets excited, and never
lets his new team mate get on his nerves.
Many thousand horses have been hitched
by the SIDE Of Dan and thus tried out.
The old fellow goes about his business
with almost human intelligence, and seems
to know what it's all about as we'll as
any one around the horse market.
The st. LOUIS Exposition went down in
history as the greatest mule show in this
history Of the world. both as 10 the ex-
c~ellence Of the exhibits and as to the num-
Der of mules shown. One firm captured the
majority Of the championships in the DIFF
l terent classes. Since that time the exhibi.
ton Of mules and their relatives has be.
come popular, and they viii claim theii
! share OF attention at the Internations
I, show.
The live stock seen on American soil, 81
/, far as the domestic species are concerned
springs from original importstions from tn,
/, Old World. Yet America was the origina
, home of nearly every domestic animal
. The i~ndisputable records Of the geologi,
!, past, written by nature, tells a plain stor1
of how the New World wal inhabited b.
the ancestors of the horse and other do
: mestic animals. Yet when the men of tn,
!. Old World as We know 1t first set eye
: on the New there was neither horse no
: cow. The Spanish brought the first horses
and from them have grown the lnnumer
: able breeds.
, Such live stock shows as that now Ii
> progress in Chicago have a great educn
: tiohal Valuet Shelby county, Missouri, 4
: 1898, produced the lamb which won tn
I first prize at the Chicago Worlds fall
: The grower know that he had a fine 10
9 Of sheep, he knew that he had won man.
d county fair prizes, and he had some no
d ton Of his relative standing at the stat
!" fair. But he had no idea what a world
: prize meant. Immediately after the blu
% ribbon was awarded an EngilshmAn aske
him to put a price on the lamb. The Mis-
0 sourian didn't wish to sell. so he aske
= what no considered to be a prohibitiv
. price. The EnglishmAn handed over tn
n money In frantic haste and-for $50 oh
( tanned possession OF q lamb which he re
% fused to sell for 5000 Since that time to
IS many big shows have been held-no Mis-
= sourian viii make that mistake now,
d ~ TrOdOriok J. Eaakin.
% TomOrrOw-TRS Anti-saloOn League.