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A Day at ThorntonYisit to the Home of$9,000 “Perfection.”There was quite a gathering of the Hereford elans out at Thorn Creek Hereford Farm, at Thornton last Saturday.Gilbert Hoxio is never quite so happy os when ho can round up a iot of white face admirers and have them go out to see his great lot of good things.S. H. Godmsn, of Wabash, Ind., Jesse Adams, of Moweaqua, 111., who paid $10,000 in Chicago for Dale, C. B. Smith, of Fayette, Mo., F. L. Studebaker, of Warren, Ind., Gus. Maggenheimor, of Peoria, Clom Graves, of Bunker Hill, Ind., Ei. Hawkins, the man who bought the $2,1W Dale cow, at the Chioago sale last week; T. F. B. Sotham, CUillicothe, Mo., W. J. Cummings, of Kansas City, Tom Clark of Bjech jr, 111-., A. G. Leonard, manager of the Chicago stock yards, “Liird Ogilvie, Andy Thorn, Fred V. Johnson, J03 Norris, N. A. Troop, Charley G. Thompson and «a representative of thj Liv'£ Sroes Would ware among those who enjoyed the hospitality of the young proprietor of the Thorn Creek Herd.Hoxio has a bunch of about G5 whito faces and under the care of herdsman William Spencer, they are looking and doing splendidly.There is the Sofia heifer bearing the Quean's brand on her horn, Lady Brang showing in her bearing the right to a title; there is Perfection looking finer than when he bought him from Tom Clark at Dixter Park Amphitheatre for $9,00J. Clark, by the way declares that Perfection always was a bull that looked better every time you saw him. Then there is Peerless Wilton, Old Forty, and flr3t, last and all the time visitors at the Thorn Creek farm are reminded of the presence of Defiance. There seems to bo something about this mellow hided old sire that ia very attractive; something alluring, something stimulating In his very surroundings. Many visitors see him and then act like Missourians—want to be shown again.There ar.i hms that Bi*l/ Spsneer says lay doublo yolked eggs; there arc the white Holland turkeys which Hoxio says are so highly endorsed by To.u Clark; there is a band of Shetland pontes that would win the heart of any boy or girl; there Isa fiock of goats, some of which are stronger thin a iirkin of process butter; there is an attractive steam launch that plies up ami down Thorn Creek at the pleasure of its owner; there is a lroiect to tap the Thornton brewery and connect it with the farm by a system of tile drains—that beiag the only use “Gil can see for tile drains: but after all is said and done about the attractive features of Thorn Creek, there seemed to be something about Defiance that received the most attention. The mellowness of his hide seems some how to be infectous and to impart its quality to the spirits of the visitors. Down at Coney Island they have a huge cow that furnishes a steady flow of soft drinks but Defiauce, although a “gentleman cow, seems to I closely associated with a magic fountain that for variety could give the Coney Island animal pink lemonade, brown pop and then lxeat her out.At the bountiful luncheon gotten up under the skillfnj Management of Mrs. Spencer, Tom Clark was assisted to °*honor by Mr. Leonard. Tom gracefully cjgrvjedT't hb^fteami ng roast and said he had served as larg£ Qk^crdwd' butanevjr a hungrier. ; “ ‘ 7:- ■■, .Clem Graves and Billy Cummings are not noted as book 51 worms but they weredeclared to be two of the “bast red men 1 there. Clem's ruddy complexion was thought to be a reflection of Cummings* and the ardent glow on Billy'* physiognomy was^ 5 explained by the faetXhat when a boy ho late ^^reat;ifi^sy‘ripe tomatoes. . / :L | However, along with a great deal of merry making the company enjoyed an instructive and profitable day, for it is not often one can see such a cpllection of superior white faces as are to be found in the broad pastures at Thorn Farm.• - • i
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Chicago Livestock World
Chicago, Illinois, US
Mon, May 26, 1902
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