The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1913-03-06
1878 CATTLE SHOW
GREATEST IN SOUTH
Will Be a History Making Ex.
hibition For Southwest. -
MEXICAN STEERS COMING
Hr'ze LIST Largest In History-Sevcr-
teen Years Since Organization-Brii
liant Array of Blue Blooded Sto.k
Will Be Seen,

Will Be Seen.
Mdich Sth marks the opening of the
| seVenteenth annual exhibit of the Ma
.lohiT Feeders and Breeders show.
known to Texans as the Fort Worth
| Fat Stock Show"
| ms show, the biggest of its nature
s1uth Oh the International Fat Stock
Snow of Chicago, opens earlier this
year than usupal and continues in Sos
SION Just one week to the day Oucuino
us doors on Saturday, the show vii!
receive the public until the last act of
lise 1ofse Show the following Saturday
Everything is to be offered to the
loNer or stock and there will he tho
greatest collection of domestic live
STOCK gathered under the roof of the
NollSeum ever brought together under
one roof in the entire South. AS soon
dS a. the 1917 show had finished its lahors
l"e management began at once to pre-
pare Tor the 1913 exhibit. and this year
tne promise has gone out To the ex
Iipi,or and customer that the National
feeders & Breeders Show for 1913 win
eclipse all past efforts.
mere is not a breeder in auy of the
9tdteS OF the Southwest who amounts
10 anything that will not he rnnrn-
Sehted IN the show ring at Fort Worth.
-'''''''7 lIit0t. tilP Dig stables of the
central states farther North. viii con
tribute heavily. The Horse Division
VIII be crowded with fancy stuff from
Northern stables; the Cow lots will
nave an abundance of high class stool,
from the feed pastures ana feed lots
VI iowa Illinois, Kansas ana NehrasIll.
ana 'hc sheep and hog pens will re-
itors.
Mexican Cattle
But the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show
mas become an international show as
Wen as the far-famed Chicago affair.
nile the attraction for Canadian cat
Ile Is small, yet, just to the South If
ieXaS lays the land Of Tio Manuel and
rom TINS sunny cline the Fort Worth
packing houses have drawn thousands
upon thousands of butchering stock
rms year the little Mexican steer viii
De seen IN the quarantine division AMI
Keen competition is expected from The
South ''
Scarcity of cattle on the Texas range
ana iced lots has made the Mexicau
steer competitor on the Fort Worth
market, and this year he has crowded
INTO the big show ring never -,t.o--la.s -
erased. His place at the isar he re-
rat Stock Show Will be 4 5rTpanent Z
same as that tsef the hissEsta9 teeth be-
Sz tsspsl krnarlDnaT WIN flisFe he such
gathering Of the purple strain Of beef
as VIII be the gathering in Fort Worth
on March 8. The herdsmen Of Texas.
Oklahoma. Arkansas. Louisiana New
Mexico and even into Miss 1uri, are
straining point to get a craditahlf.
representation before this show. The
time has come when a blue ribbon from
the National Feeders and Breeders SHOW
means as much to the breeder as fr
would from any other show, ana every
effort is being put forth by the cattle
men Of the Southwest to merit their
winnings.
Great Sale Show.
Besides being one of the greatest fat
stock exhibits the National Feeders e
breeders Show at Fort Worth has
grown into a great sale show It's rcD
utation in this line has been made and
during the last five wears it has been
surpassed by none in this respect Rut
It's Inducements the coming season in
this respect are greater than ever be
fore and a special effort has been mado
to secure tho largest numbers Of buy
ers to come together in several wears
Many of the herdSmen of Old Mexico
will stand ut The block in order to So
cure suitable breeding stock 10 raise
the standard Of their herds
This condition exists in all branchc-
OF the livestock industry. The sheo1
pens will he filled with saIable stuff
and the hog pens will have their sharu
of sire stock. The greatest horses On
American soil will he sold from the
block in the tan bark ring.
Assures Success.
President S. p. Burnett Of the Nh
tional Feeders and Breeders Show Of
Fort Worth. in a statement to the nlh
lie. gives his promise and that Of the
board Of directors that tho 1918 show
will be excellcd by no exhibit OF ts
kind in America during the year.
Greater care was never taken in the
Of a show and the li,tl-
things were never brought so nratiy
together as they have been this vra7
perfect organization wOrlfn,, ri1II
and day is eHdeavoring to give 10 Tex
as and the Southwest the most corn.
p'ete representation Of the Iiyesfock in.
dustry possible.
There is a place for everybody n
this big Southern exhibition. ana iha
man of cotton will be taken care or
just the same as the man who raisn.
fine stock The Fort Worth Fat Sfcc,.
Show has made the livestock unjust.
Of the Southwest. It has been the IN
centive for the production Of the in.
proved breeds down in the pincv w0c-.
and hills Of East Texas. Arkansas an
Louisiana, just the same as it has boon
the one factor in bringing about 10
eradlC atlon or the longhorn steer frG~e
the prairies and plains Of West Tnya-
Oklahoma and New Mexico.
This year cosmorolitan rro,.1 ..-I'3
gather under the roof ~ The Cn'fsnr-1
the biggest building IN Tcxas m qy.,a,
West Texas steers for East Texas n"s
Here the dog fanCicr will try thrir 60
ters and hounds on tho h"nrh '#..
poultry fanCier win chat clithar .r..t.
his hearts content