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enough for any ordinary family in the absence of buckwheat cakes. 

 She is valued at two thousand dollars. She took the first premium 

 in her class. A two-year-old bull also wears a blue ribbon, as also 

 did the cow Beauty, two years old. He has also three head of 

 Guernsey cattle, imported from the Isle of Guernsey. This gentle- 

 man last year imported ten head of these beautiful cattle, and pro- 

 poses to raise a herd of them. He has a herd of about seventy 

 head of Jerseys on his place near San Jose. 



James Askew, of El Dorado, shows two Jerseys from the Shafter 

 strain of Jerseys. The heifer, a very fine animal, captured the blue 

 ribbon in her class yesterday. 



Robert Beck, of Sacramento, who is the pioneer importer of the 

 Jersey stock of cattle, has twenty-one head, young and old, from his 

 now very extensive herd. They are of the very best strains, and under 

 the scientific direction of Major Beck, are all finely bred animals. 



George Bement, of Redwood City, shows nine head of Ayrshires, 

 which comprises all the Ayrshires on the grounds. They are a mag- 

 nificent lot of cattle, and though there are not many on exhibition, 

 they are scattered through the State quite numerously. This herd 

 captured seven first premiums. They have been exhibited at Peta- 

 luma, where they were awarded eight first premiums in the various 

 classes; also, at Oakland the same number of first premiums. 



E. F. Aiken, of Sacramento, shows four head of Jerseys, which, 

 aside from being orthodox Jerseys, so far as blood goes, are very large. 

 The bull Major took the first premium in the two-year-old class. Also, 

 the bull calf, first premium. 



Mr. Wick, of Butte County, shows sixteen head of shorthorns from 

 his herd of eighty or ninety head. Mr. Wick breeds shorthorns for 

 sale, and has been remarkably successful. In the entire herd there 

 is not one spotted animal — all solid red, and a superior milking 

 strain. This herd received premiums as follows: The bull, Major 

 Butler, first premium ; the four-year-old cow, Gem, second premium; 

 and a first premium to the herd 



General Bidwell shows two very large Durham bulls from his Chico 

 herd. The bull Osceola, a most superb specimen, weighs two thousand 

 five hundred pounds, which is less by one hundred and forty pounds 

 than he weighed last year. The Duke of Chico, three years old, 

 weighs one thousand nine hundred and forty pounds. Both bulls 

 captured second premiums in their respective classes. 



P. H. Murphy, of Brighton, has five head of Durhams and one grade. 

 One of the animals deserves special mention — the four-months calf, 

 Duke of Brighton, which weighs six hundred and ninety pounds. 

 Daisy, a grade Durham cow, weighs one thousand four hundred and 

 twenty pounds. Also, Mirandi XIV; weighs one thousand six hun- 

 dred and thirty pounds. 



W. K. Jones, of Tulare County, is the owner of the huge steer 

 which leads the cattle parade. Pie weighs about three thousand 

 pounds, being a Durham grade. It is understood he has been pur- 

 chased by a Sacramento butcher, for Christmas beef, the price spoken 

 of being two hundred and fifty dollars. 



R. J. Merkley, of Sacramento, has eight head of Durhams. The 

 Sixth Red Thorndale, a yearling calf, tips the scales at one thousand 

 pounds. They are solid color, and from the best milking strains. 



Coleman Younger is on hand with twenty-six head of shorthorns 

 from his Santa Clara breeding farm. He is breeding to red altogether, 



