The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-25
LIST OF
FAT STOCK SHOW
CARRIES $4,000
MANY CLASSES INCREASED
AND AWARDS ADJUST
I'D 70 COVER ALL
EXHIBITS.
ROUNDUP a FEATURE
More Than 5000 Cowmen VIII
Attend Annual Fort Worth
Event. March 10 TO IL,
Inclusive.


More than $4,000 in cash
and several thousand dollars IN
trophys win BE distributed
among the cattle breeders OF
the Southwest at National Feed
ers and Breeders Show to be
held in Fort Worth from March
TO to II, inclusive. The prize
lists have been prepared and
are now ready for distribution
among the breeders and stock
men who desire to show ami
mails.
Not since the initial per-
Torrance Of the National Feed
ers and Breeders Show, has
such preparation been made
for staging really big and
wonderful show. The cattle
men have enjoyed a prosperous
year, the farmers have been
prosperous and the city people
have proiited and from every
nook and Granny Of the South
west comes word that the PEG
pie are deeply interested in the
March show and are simply bid
ing time between now and the
opening night.
The National Feeders and
Breeders show is attracting at
tention all over the United
States and for this reason the
management has found it nee
essary to enlarge the prize list.
Classes, in almost every diyi-
sion, have been enlarged and
special attention is given this
year to the Jack and mule in
dustry. The saddle horse in
dustry has not been overlooked
and several of the draft horse
divisions have been amplified.
The cattlemen, the men who
raise and market the Texas
steer, will be in Fort Worth
during the show. It is q home
coming for the men who are
supplying the cattle markets Of
the world and they will spend
the week in jollification. Fort
Worth is the cowman's home.
His cattle market is in the
shadow Of the big Coliseum and
pens that house the blue bloods
Of the range and stable. Fort
Worth viii entertain these
cattlemen, their families and
their friends.
Besides the feature OF the
Fat Stock Exhibit, the manage
ment Of the National Feeders
and Breeders Show, has az
ranged for q continual round of
entertainment. Every after
noon and night stunts OF the
range and corral will be depict-
ed. Cowboys, broncho busters,
ropers and bulldogers win con-
test for the championship in
their respective classes. The
Roundup, it is to be remem-
bered, is to be the headliner in
entertaining features. The
meanest buckers, the best rid
ers, the widest cattle and the
nerviest bulldogers, will pitch
In TO each other for business
Big prizes have been hung up
so as to attract cowboys from
all over the United States.
Miss Lucille Mulhall and HON.
err Wilson and hundreds of the
best men and women riders in
America have agreed TO appear
during the week. Busters who
startled the people at Kansas
City, at Cheyenne and at Pen.
dleton are coming to Fort
Worth. Merchants are contrib.
uting costly prizes and in addi-
ton to these gifts the National
Feeders and Breeders Show has
hung up $4,000 to be carried
away by the winners.
There viii be the division for
the baby beef and pig clubs.
The poultry show is to be Larry
er and better and the carnival
grounds will be covered with
the best carnival show money
can procure.
The management is making
the claim that there win not be
q dull moment between the
Texas 4 Pacific station and the
stock pens from Saturday night
TO Saturday night. All of Fort
Worth has entered into the car
mval spirit and the Fat Stock
Show and Rnun1- hos ell