Word: herefords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheeked 4-H* Club members, a grand championship at a big livestock show is a headier dream than flying a rocket to the moon. Last week, at the top-billed International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago's International Amphitheater, the coveted purple ribbon went to Lone Star, a Hereford owned by 18-year-old Sue White of Big Spring, Texas, the third girl to win the award in the show's 54-year history...
...best time to get into the cattle business," said J. Douglas Gay Jr., newly elected president of the American Hereford Association. "When you're sleeping on the floor, you can't fall out of bed. If the cattle market is not on the bottom now, it's awfully close. The only direction...
What about the Galloway? Back in Kansas City, Ike addressed the Hereford Association in a folksy chat that wowed the cattlemen and revealed the President as something of an authority on cows. "You know." he told his audience, "the old scrub cattle on the prairie began to disappear when I was a very young boy. There were all sorts of new breeds appearing-short horns. Angus, the white face and the Galloway. Whatever happened to the Galloway? He was a big black cow, you know, bigger than the Angus, and sort of woolly-haired...
...Hereford show bull, H. C. Larry Domino 12th won ribbons wherever he appeared, from champion of Chicago's International Livestock Show in 1947 to reserve champion of the American Royal Show in Kansas City. Last week his owner, C. A. Smith of West Virginia's Hillcrest Farms, sold a half interest in Larry Domino to E. C. McCormick, an Ohio insurance executive and owner of McCormick Hereford Farms in Medina. The price: $105,000, the largest sum ever paid for half a bull...
Half-Owner McCormick, who already owns Hillcrest Larry 7, one of Larry's sons, will share Larry's siring services with Smith. "It sounds like a lot of money," said an executive of the American Hereford Association last week, "but with that kind of breeding, McCormick might get his money back in one sale...