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...Andy Bahr's drive was to be measured in years, not months. Storm after storm beat down. Time & again wolves picked off a few of the herd, stampeded the rest. They came to rivers frozen glare-smooth and the drivers had to notch the ice with picks to give the animals a footing. Fawning seasons forced long halts. In summer black, torturing clouds of flies and mosquitoes swept across the tundra. In winter men and beasts wandered off in blizzards to be gone for days or weeks. For months at a time the whole troupe was lost...
...biggest news of last week's Exposition was not these prizes, not the new Temple, not the fact that Edward of Wales's Alberta herd of Shorthorns was better than usual, not the celebration of Walter Biggar's 10th anniversary as judge of the grand champion steer but the fact that a comparative upstart breed of beef cattle had reached a stock show eminence never before attained...
...Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International...
...proud a boast. When all the judging was done in the new Temple of Agriculture, black Aberdeen Anguses had waddled off with every top and reserve (second place) prize in every one of the interbreed classes: best 4-H steer (raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total of ten top carcass prizes in both light and heavy classes. Named Grand Champion Steer?foremost prize of the show?was Campus Idol, a black raised on Iowa State College's farm, whence...
...nonofficial conference was held between Mr. Roosevelt and Otis Moore, overseer of the President's nearby 1,700-acre farm. On his hilly, meagre land the President turned loose 35 head of scrub cattle and two thoroughbred bulls five years ago. The breed improved, and last spring his herd of 100 dropped 50 calves. Since his feed crop could only winter 100 head, it was decided to market 50. Last week Overseer Moore reported that the best price to be had was 2½ cents a lb. As he and Mr. Roosevelt agreed that this was "terrible," they postponed their plans...