“T exhibited some fat bullocks about a year
ago at a stock show about 200 miles from this,
and won every prize I competed for but one.
That was for a pen of three bullocks from 34
to 4 vears old. I met five pens of Shorthorn
bullocks and prize was given for the heaviest


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cattle. Cattle were slaughtered and weighed
the day after the show. A pen of Shorthorns
won that dressed an average of 1,005 pounds
each; our three dressed 988 pounds each. But
our cattle traveled 100 miles further to show
than the Shorthorns, and of course the whole
distance was traveled by the cattle on foot. I
wanted to bet the owners of Shorthorns that
qurs were the best butchers’ and consumers’ cat-
tle and leave it to the decision of the butchers
who purchased both pens, but they would not
make the bet, but agreed to leave the matter to
the judgment of two butchers whom we knew,


CASSIO (6849) 13352.
Bred by P. Turner, Herefordshire. Rated the best bull
ever seen in Canada.
without having a bet on it. The butchers, not
knowing which was the Hereford carcass and
which the Shorthorn when hung up in shop,
decided that the Hereford carcass was far and
away the best. I may say that we decided to
each select one carcass from our three, and
have the-decision on that. I then offered to
enter into a sweepstakes of from $100 to $250
each and show a pen of bullocks this year same
ages (34 to 4 years), the prize to be awarded to
the cattle that show the best beef for butchers
and consumers.
