Prizes at Chicago

A steer can neither be a father nor give milk. A steer is just beef on the hoof. But last week at the International Livestock Exposition in cattle-wise Chicago, one chunky little black hornless steer brought $7,835, making its steaks and loins worth about $12 per lb. This steer was Lucky Strike, an Aberdeen-Angus,/- grand champion of the show. Elliott Brown, 20, of Rose Hill, Iowa, who raised Lucky Strike, said he would use his prize and auction money to lift the mortgage on his father's farm, to go to college. Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, who bought the costly calf, donated it to Chicago's United Charities, which was not quite sure what to do with it. Lucky Strike weighed only 920 lbs. His steaks were apartment-house size, just right for kitchenette ovens.

In the animal-crammed amphitheatre were reassuring signs: THIS SHOW IS DISINFECTED. Other prize exhibits:

Best Shorthorn bull: Edellyn Favorite of Fred H. Deacon, Unionville, Ont.

Best Percherons: Mare Maple Grove Leila, Stallion Sir Laet, shown by Michigan State College.

Best Shire mare: Tatton Ramona of Henry McCracken & Sons, Gowrie, Iowa.

Best Belgian stallion: Major De Malmaison of the Holbert Co., Greeley. Iowa,

Best swine: shown by Kansas Agricultural College.

Best corn: exhibited by L. M. Yolger. Hope, Ind.

Best wheat: by Joseph H. B. Smith, Wolf Creek, Alberta.

Healthiest Boy: Harold Deatline, 17, a milk-fed Morgan Co., Ind., farmer.

Healthiest Girl: Florence Smock, 17, Lake Co., Fla. She attributed her bursting healthiness to "'orange juice and Florida sunshine." Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde attended the Exposition. Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, saw her son Robert P. Jr. win grand championships with her Hereford bull Matador, raised by him on his ranch at Larkspur, Colo.*

/-The Aberdeen-Angus breed has a unique, cylindrical bone structure, giving it a body barrel-shaped rather than blocky. Having thus more meat per lb. of bone, it is a favorite at Chicago shows, has won eight grand championships, more than any other breed.

*Bigger than any bull at the Exposition was one which arrived at the University of Chicago last week. This bull weighed 40 tons. Carved in stone, it guarded the palace gateway of Sargon II, ruler of Assyria in the 18th Century B. C. "Largest stone bull in captivity," it will eventually be placed in Chicago's new Oriental Institute. Sargon's largest fragment weighed 20 tons, had to travel 1,500 mi. by detours from New York to Chicago because it could not pass through the Pennsylvania Railroad's tunnels.

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