The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-06-05

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the Pittsburgh Provision company at
the worlds record price Of 211A cents
pound on, the hoof set new mill.
stone in steer feeding and breeding
history. Until the last two war years
OF the Interna tional show this figure
stood as the worlds record through
those Is years.
The showing of Aberdeen Angus
steers by the Eschers has been a car
dinal principal ever since. Besides
getting the best blood lines into their
herds from four importations from
Scotland and by buying the tops" OF
the leading American sales, they new.
er forget that the steers are after all
the true test of a breeds worth to the
average farmer The market for beef
was the foundat ton on which their
pedigrees were built. Thus the Esch.
ers never made the mistake Of earlier
Aberdeen Angus breeders and the
breeders Of other beef breeds in al.
lowing pedigree to draw them away
from the average farmers ultimate
market at the stock yards. The elder
fischer knew only too well that he
must raise cattle for the farmer be.
fore breeding them for the millionaire
and pedigree fancier This cardinal
Fischer policy has become the rudder
that has guided the progress OF the
breed in America during the last de-.
cade, and has made it what the United
States Department Of Agriculture &C.
knowledges as the most popular
breed with cattle feeders"
OF the thirteen internationse fat
carlot grand championships that the
Aberdeen Angus have won over all
breeds at Chicago in sixteen shows,
the Eschers have carried of three.
Their carlots have been three times
reserve grand champions, being sec.
ond only to, their own steers in the
worlds greatest steer shows twice, ana
taking the second position In 1909
when a Shorthorn breeder placed a
load of that kind in the premier place.
the only, time in sixteen years the
honor went to that breed. The Escher
car, loads in these International shows
have never been placed lower than
second in q class. In 1911 and again
III 1918 the Escher' steers set . new
standard in show rings by showing
in both the carlot and single. steer
classes. They were led into Dexter
Park amphitheater from their lots in
the stock yards several blocks away,
and then taken back and shown as
CARROTS after winning prizes as single
steers and as steer herds in groups OF
three. Altogether, they carried away
prizes totaling $2865. In the pure
bred individual classes the Escher
steers stood 2, 4, S, s and in the two
year old class; 2, 4, s, Z and in the
yearlings; 1, 5, 8, and 9 in the class
under year old, and l, 2, and In
the groups of three: When it is re-
called that it is these classes that al
ways draw, the heaviest entries from
the colleges, and that from fourteen
to thirty.two animals appeared in the
class, the showing has the greatest
The grand champion car
lot dressed 66.2 per cent after being
shipped to Buffalo, parading the streets
and being shipped back to Wichita,
Kans., by the butchers who bought
them 81
The 1913 show was a repetition Of
the 1911 for the Eschers, as they again
had tho tMos best carlots ct the inter:
national show, the yearlings again be-
ing placed above their two year old
brothers. They also showed the re-.
serve grand champion single steer and
the reserve grand champion steer herd
of three 5thst year. Only the Canadian