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Show Buys Champion Hereford Stock At Denver Show While at the Denver Livestock show last week Homer Petersen bought champion Hereford stock to add to his Delta herd, at a total cost of $10,115.00. His main purchase was the Here ford bull, Proud Prince V, from the Suncrest Hereford Ranch, of Phoenix, Ariz. The Prince was calved cal-ved May 7, 1949, and Mr. Petersen paid $5800 for him. He was sired by Jeo Royal Prince 5th, and his dam was WHP Proud Princess 9th. PROUD CHAMPION Proud Prince V was grand cham-at cham-at the Ogden Intermountain livestock live-stock show. He was second in his ciass tne the Denver show, and sec at Phoenix and the Cow Palace, San Francisco. Mr. Petersen is present owner ol the former Jack Singleton Here ford herd, built up over a periot of 40 years in the Hereford busin ess. The new bull will be adde. to the herd as herd sire, alon with the herd sire purchased from DeBerard Cattle Co., Kremley, Colo rado by Mr. Singleton at the reported re-ported price of $4000 as a calf. FAIR CHAMPION Mr. Petersen also bought five Hereford heifers to add to the herd . He paid $1775 for Sister 10th bred by Helmar Bros., Littleton, Colo. She was calved Aug. 17, 1948 with sire Real Prince 78th, and dam, Sister 4th. Sister 10th was a grandchampion at the Colorado State Fair, placed third at Denver and was second at Great Falls Mont. She is with calf by the famous herd bull of Fulcher Bros. Holyoke Colo. POTENTIAL CHAMPIONS Two others in the heifer purchase pur-chase are daughters of Zento's Dia mond 4th by the $50000 Beau Zen-to Zen-to 36th, from the Walnut Grove Hereford farm; Rembrandt, Iowa,. Mr. Petersen paid $900 for one heifer, who is with calf by BTC Pioneer 18th, a grandson of Domino Dom-ino Lad C 14th, herd sire of the Walnut Grove Hereford farm. For the other he paid $520.00 The other two purchased at the Denver show were heifer calves BB Miss R. Crest 5th, from Beau-prez Beau-prez Bros., Broom'field, oClo., and Miss Bright Mixer E4, from F. A. Field and sons, Parshall, Cal. The first cost $510, the second, $610. ALL REGISTERED Earlier Mr. Petersen bought the champion pen of 3 heifers from John T. Runner, Saratoga, Wyo., at the Ogden show. They are granddaughters grand-daughters of the $50,000 Thornton bull, T. T. Regent. These additions to the Petersen herd now make a total of 80 breeding cows, all registered. reg-istered. The trip to the Denver livestock show was sponsored by the Commercial Com-mercial Bank of Utah to encourage the production of better livestock. Forty Utahns made the trip, with Max Thomas, Nephi, vice president of the bank, in charge of the arrangements. Favors Aberdeen Angus Another buyer at the show was Dale Pearson, Delta stockman. Mr. Pearson purchased an Aberdeen Angus bull from the Simon Angus Farm, Madison, Kansas. The hull is sired by a son df the famous Prince Sunbeam 29th. His sire is also a brother of the world's record-selling Prince Eric of Sunbeam Sun-beam that sold for $100,000 two months ago at the International in Chicago at eight years of age. This bull won second in class at San Francisco and first at Ogden. Og-den. He will be shown in Fort Worth, Texas in February and in Calgary, Canada in July, after that Mr. Pearson will take delivery. Mr. Pearson is a recent convert to the Aberdeen Angus and considers con-siders them the coming leaders. Last fall he sold a fine herd of Herefords, and switched to Aberdeen, Aber-deen, of which he now owns 50. |