The Champ

He was not the greatest show animal ever bred, but as a dairy bull he has had few equals. In 13 years, hefty, mahogany-and-white Netherhall Swanky Dan, an Ayrshire bred in Scotland, had lumbered into 84 show rings, had won the championship every time. At the Ayrshire Breeders Association in Brandon, Vt, a file of cards, with 200 names was needed to register his offspring, valued at some $200,000. One of his offspring, Cavalier's Swanky Hughina, set a formidable record for Ayrshires by producing 18,817 Ibs. of milk and 656 Ibs. of butterfat in a year. Two others, Cavalier's Swanky Gold and Cavalier's Swanky Design, would have been bull champions had it not been for Swanky Dan; when Swanky Dan won the Grand Championship at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa last year, they followed him in second and third places. He won the Grand Championship again this year; two heifers he sired won the junior and junior-reserve championships.

But at 13, still a first-class breed bull, still valued at $25,000, Swanky Dan was slowing up in the show ring. Last week, rather than risk his undefeated record, the Curtiss Candy Co., his owner, decided to retire him from exhibition, settled him on the Curtiss breeding farm at Gary, Ill.

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