Show GIANT AND BOVINE F EXTREMES IN KANAS A SAS root anny sty at ane yat stir sli incze high mind nd ILL ha 39 y yet rt th bacht of stopping to grow c HE largest steer in is the world its Is owned by W A conklin y of no 6 5 catharine catharene Cathar lne lk street this city 1 V I 1 says the new york S iv fl journal the ant marl mal was born barn three years ears ago in 1 ita kan where t la is now in pasture the parents are jr argey ey and do not differ in any from apra ordinary cattle their offspring offs Dring la Is 9 feet 6 laches ir es in height 11 feet long and an iga iea of his immense proportions may be rained hn by the accompanying comparison of the steer with an ordinary rov v and a man maji over 7 feet in height th the animal rl weighs over pounds and hns his not yet stopped growing mr con coaklin min came into possession of it last while traveling through the lest HP P st n arned at wichita and heard about alp t hig big steer which was then colv ib hot ho t 7 feet high but even that 7 as a rp liable kable for an animal of that eicas 1 he went to see the steer and rpt apt ns were immediately per becic r its purchase not wishing A HORSE OP YEARS EARS AGO t A 5 Z n the illustration on this page la is from a palming painting by paul potter patter amsterdam 1652 it if represents the great horse of that period of which some of our modern br beda b eda eds have felt the influence 0 o bring the animal east mr conklin left it on the farm to pasture pastur it Is possible that one reason for the kni animals mals extraordinary growth lies in the fact that it has hag never left the faran arm on which it was raised and has fed I 1 always on the rich grass for which the vest est Is noted this too may account for the fact I 1 that the animal Is still increasing in size and weight during the year past the steer ateer has grown over two feet and a half in height and is considerable broader and longer the sacred running oxen of coylon ceylon are the most remarkable of the domestic animals of that island they are dwarfs and never grow taller than feet six bis inches but four of them can carry a two wheel cart pounds of baggage and a driver at the rate of eaven Y riles miles a day on orie one occasion a quartet was known to make miles in a day and a night without stopping to take food or water these marvelous animals have been known to the buddhists for more than a thousand years A specimen sent to the marquis Marqui of canterberry Canier berry soma sometime time since was about ten years old twenty two inches high and weighed pounds william in III took a keen interest in uve live stock and caused the introduction into england of some of these grays the reader will notice the length of the mane and the manner of plaiting it it |