. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 30, 1916] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 14 THE FARM Not Result of a Long Purse. That it was not a long pocketbook which won for the University of Cali- fornia the Grand Championship at the International Livestock Show at Chi- cago, with the steer California Favor- ite, of the University's own breeding and raising, is a source of special pride to the College of Agriculture. This wonderful California steer was sired by a bull for which the Univer- sity paid only $400. From this same sire the University has raised bulls which it has sold at from ?50
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 30, 1916] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 14 THE FARM Not Result of a Long Purse. That it was not a long pocketbook which won for the University of Cali- fornia the Grand Championship at the International Livestock Show at Chi- cago, with the steer California Favor- ite, of the University's own breeding and raising, is a source of special pride to the College of Agriculture. This wonderful California steer was sired by a bull for which the Univer- sity paid only $400. From this same sire the University has raised bulls which it has sold at from ?500 to $700 each to practical breeders. The dam of California Favorite cost the Uni- versity ?267. Thousands of breeders throughout the United States are pay- ing prices many times as large as this for animals they regard as desir- able for building up their commercial herds, as distinguished from the rich man's show herd. The herdsman who feeds and cares for these splendid beef animals raised by the University of California at the University Farm at Davis receives no more wages than hundreds of herdsmen of other pure- bred herds. The feed cost of raising this calf, and keeping his dam one year, charg- ing everything to it from birth to the International, was seven and a frac- tion cents per pound. This steer and the animals shown at this Interna- tional, or any State Fair, by the Uni- versity of California, have not, and never have received any more care than any breeder of pure-bred animals can afford to give the few exceptional animals in his herd which are worthy of being shown at a public exhibition. It is a mistake, says the University, for any breeder to take his best ani- mals direct from the pasture lot to a show and then apologize for their rough appearance. A show is a place where contenders for prizes expect to show the excellence of their best ani- mals and their greatest skill in pre- paring them for show. The University Farm has never ex- hibited any animals not br
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