Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
DEBORAH BOY AT BIG
CHICAGO STOCK SHOW
Reginald Pearson Entered Black
Poiled Angus Calf ut Interna-
tiOnal show and Was up
Among Top NOtchers.
CALF SOLD FOR S147
AND WENT TO NEW YORK
Pearson First Exhibitor From Winnie
shiek to Show at the Interna-
tional, Largest Show i'm
the World

heSlldlu IeaTSOn, SOl OF Mr. and
Mrs. G.. T. Pearson arrived home
Monday from Chicago where he had
been for two weeks attending the
International Stock Show. When he
left here he took with him a four
teen months old black Polled Angus
calf, and entered it in competition
with others at this big show. Aad we
want to say right here in the start
that his calf made good, and when
1t was sold commanded as high price
as any calf at the show, and this is
saying something when the magni-
tude of this show is considered.
Reginald secured the calf late last
fall when it was small, selecting it
from a bunch of 20 others. He put the
calf on feed last March, feeding it as
follows:
Corn, 1889 pounds; Oats, 46O
pounds; fax seed meal 176 pounds;
ground oats .305 pounds, and hay at
will, besides II quarts Of skinned
milk day
The weight of the calf on March
first when he started feeding it was
400 pounds, and the animal was
weighed up then by Supt III. E. Mil
ler. When he shipped it to Chicago
it weighed 1000 pounds the day 1t
left here, and when it arrived in Chi
cago it weighed $50 pounds, losing
20 pounds on the trip.
The calf went into the baby beef
club contest and went up against a
lot of baby beeves that had been ex-
hibited at the state fair last fall.
Quite few OF the baby beeyes were
from Iowa, The calf exhibited by
Reginald was the first animal ever
sent from Winneshiek, to the Inter
national show, we believe, and the
fact that he commanded the top price,
being the only animal out of BUNCH
of 80 others to bring the top price,
with the exception of the blue rib
bon steer, certainly speaks we'll for
Mr. Pearson, and brings to him an
honor that he has every reason TO
feel proud of.
The calf was auctioIed off and sold
for $147, bringing Is cents a pound,
and was bought by l.. w. Budd for
big New York hotel, and choice
steaks and roasts from the animal
will soon be gracing the tables of the
rich of New York City. We presume
by the time the last cut is consumed
the animal will probably bring $400.
as cuts from prize beef cattle sold AT
the International only find their Wa.
onto the tables of millionaires.
Friends of Reginald here will
congratulate him most heartily on his
efforts. One thing we have noticed
about him he has generally made
good on every proposition he under
took, and at the same time he is very
modest and unassuming about his
work. He is now 10 years old and
graduated last summer from the De-
corah high school. He worked hard
in school AID out of school, and new
er idled his spare time away. When
he was / years old his father gave
him a SOW which he paid SIT for and
she farrowed eight pigs. They were
taken care of by Reginald and fed up
and when sold brought him SLAB and
that was time when pork was cheap.
He has been doing just such things
ever since he was big enough and has
made a success of everything he un-
dertook, because his heart and soul
is centered in the work, and 1t is a
real pleasure to him.
We understand that it is his inten-
ton to enter an agricultural college
next year, as his ambition is along
that line. That he will make good
there is no doubt as he already has
a start that will make the work come
easy to him. While in Chicago he
was offered position at the yards
there at nice salary, but he declined
the offer. The men who saw the ami
NAL he fed knew Reginald was made
of the right kind Of stuff, and natur-
ally they wanted his services, as there
is always good position open to the
boy who leads clean life aad is not
afraid of work, and Reginld Pearson
is just such boy