I do wish there was a better picture of Dividend. I will never forget the first time I saw Dividend. I had travelled with 5 friends to Kansas to go to the Polled Congress in Hutchison , KS and we also wanted to see the "new " Irish imports that were at Beef Genetics Research. Inc, at Mankato, KS. When we got to BGR, we found out that both Dividend and Improver, were at Kabsu, getting collected. After visiting BGR for a day, we then headed to Kabsu to see the two bulls. I think that all 6 of us were in complete awe when we saw Dividend. He was massive,and was thick topped and big butted. He was one of the longest bulls we had ever seen. All 6 of us said he was the best Shorthorn bull, and some of us said he was the best bull of all breeds that we had ever seen, to that point in time.
When I got home, I phoned Di-k Judy, and asked him if he would sell Dividend. He said that both bulls were not for sale. I had thought that he might have wanted to sell him, because the ASA had rejected the Irish cattle for registration. Several days later, I received a letter from Di-k, saying that he had reconsidered and that he would sell both Dividend and Improver, along with the semen inventories in both bulls for $40,000. Looking back, that would have been a rather good investment. We decided not to purchase them only because we had a shipment of Irish cattle coming from Ireland, by this time.
Unfortunatley we did not have a camera with us when we saw Dividend. He looked nothing like the picture that is used most often of him ( other than his color and his horns). I still think of that moment, when we first saw Dividend, as one of the monumental moments I have had since I started raising these critters.
