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...ride over, Ray Gene took quick leave and ducked back to the livestock stalls. There, as he polished the coat of his Hereford steer, he relaxed and talked about past F.F.A. conventions. "I got married last April," he said, "so I have to stay in a hotel with the wife this year. Always before when I came to the Royal I bunked right here with the cattle. It's hard to be away from the cattle...
...expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
There had never been a Hereford bull like Hazford Rupert 81st. At the age of three he won the grand prize at Chicago's International Livestock Exposition in 1936. Deep-bodied, square-rumped, the Hereford champion was sold to Cattleman Roy J. Turner, now Oklahoma's Governor. The price was small, only $18,500 for Rupert and nine other bulls. Rupert was withdrawn from the show ring, as Turner thought he would do better on his 10,000-acre breeding ranch in the heart of Oklahoma's "Hereford Heaven...
Rupert worked so diligently at his trade that soon Hereford men referred to him respectfully as "Old 81st." In nine years his progeny on the Turner ranch alone totaled 497. Of these, Turner sold 118 cows at an average price of around $1,200, 160 bulls at an average of around $2,100, the lot for a whopping total of $486,225. The only one who ever shamed his father was T. Royal Rupert 60th. He sold for a record-breaking $38,000 (TIME, Jan. 24, 1944). Then Turner had to give the money back when T. Royal turned...
...following spinal anaesthesia-testified to Old 81st's greatness. Veterinarians chose this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body under the elms of the Turner ranch. As the greatest sire in Hereford history, Old 81st had already provided the epitaph for the bronze tablet that will mark his grave...