The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1913-03-20
1878 CATTLE SHOW
GREATEST IN SOUTH
VIII Be History Making Ex
hibition For Southwest.
MEXICAN STEERS COMING
Prize List Largest In History-Seven
teen Years Since Organization-BriI
liant Array of Blue BIooded STOCK
Will Be Seen

March sth marks the, opening Of tn;
Seventeenth annual exhibit Of the Ma
tional Feeders and breeders Show
known to Texans AZ the Fort WORT
Fat Stock Show"
This show. the biggest of its nature
south of the International Fat Stock
Show Of Chicago, opens earlier this
year than usupal and continues in ses-
sion just one week to the day Opening
its doors on Saturday, the show will
receive the public until the last act OF
the Horse Show the following Saturda.
afternoon.
Everything is to be offered to the
lover of stock and there will be the
greatest collection of domestic live
stock gathered under the roof of the
Coliseum ever brought together under
one roof in the entire South. AS soon
as the 1912 show had finished it's Iabnrs
the management began at once TO pre-
pare for the 1913 exhibit and this year
the promise has gone out to the ex-
hibitor and customer that the Nationa'
Feeders & Breeders Show for 1918 viii
eclipse all past effortse
There is not breeder In any of the
States of the Southwest who amounts
to anything that will not be repre-
sented in the show ring at Fort WOri h..
Central states farther North, will con-
tribute heavily. The Horse Division
will be crowded with fancy stuff from
Northern stables; the Cow lots will
have an abundance of high-class stock
from the feed pastures and feed lots
of Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska
and the sheep and hog pens will re-
ceive their share form outside exhib.
itoFs-
Mexiean Cattle.
But the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show
has become an international show as
well as the far famed Chicago affair
While the attraction for Canadian cat
tie Is small. yet, just to the South of
Texas lays the land of Tio Manuel, ami
from this sunny cline the Fort Worth
packing houses have drawn thousands
upon thousands of butchering stock.
This year the little Mexican steer will
be seen in the quarantine division and
keen competition Is expected from the
South.
Scarcity of cattle on the Texas range
and feed lots has made the Mexican
steer a competitor on the Fort Worth
market, and this year he has crowded
into the big show ring never to ba
erased His place at the Fort Wor Il
Fat Stock Show will be exactly the
same as that ef the big steer from TO-
ronto at the International at Chicago
No place outEtde 49, show ring,
-.
gathering ut the purple strain OF beef
~ will be the gathering in Fort Worth
on March g.. The herdsmen of Texas.
Oklahoma. Arkansas, Louisiana. New
Mexico and even into Missouri, are
straining a point to get a creditable
representation before this show. The
time has come when a blue ribbon from
the National Feeders and Breeders Shox
means as much to the breeder as Ii
would from any other show, and every
effort is being put forth by the cattle
men Of the Southwest to merit thei
winnings
Great Sale Show,
Besides being one of the greatest fat
stock exhibits the National Feeders &
Breeders Show at Fort Worth has
grown into great sale show It's rep
utation in this line has been made and
during the last five years II has been
surpassed by none In this respect But
its inducements The coming season fn
this respect are greater than ever be.
fore and special effort has been made
to secure the largest numbers Of buy
ers to come together in several years
Many of the herdsmen Of Old Mexico
will stand Mt the block in order to So.
the standard Of their herds.
This condition exists in all branches
Of the livestock industry The sheer
pens will he filled with sslahle stuff
and the hog pens will have their shar.
of sire stock. The greatest horses on
American soil will he sold from th,
block in the tan bark ring.
Assures Success.
President s. r. Burnett Of the Ma
tiona1 Feeders and Breeders Show of
Fort Worth. in statement to the pub
Iic gives his promise and that Of the
board OF directors that the 1918 show
will be excelled by no exhibit OF its
kind in America during the year.
Greater care was never taken in the
preparation Of a show and the little
things were never brought so neatly
together as they have been this year
perfect organization working night
and day is endeavoring to give to Tex
as and the Southwest the most com
plete representation of TIE livestock in.
dustry possible.
There is a place for everybody at
this big Southern exhibition. and the
man of cotton will be taken care of
Just the same as the man who raises
fine stock The Fort Worth Fat Stock
Show has made the livestock Industry
of the Southwest II has been the In
centive for the production Of the i'm
proved breeds down in the pinev woods
and hills of East Texas, Arkansas and
Louisiana, just the same as II has been
the one factor In bringing about the
eradication of the longhorn steer from
the prairies and plains Of West Texas
Oklahoma and New Mexico
This year a cosmopolitan crowd will
gather under the roof Of the Coliseum.
the biggest building In Texas fo swap
West Texas steers for East Texas hogs
Here the dog fancier will try their set
ters and hounds on the bench and tho
poultry fancier will chat chicken until
his hearts content.