306 BEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Upon the final assembling of the winners from all breeds, cham- 

 pions -were as usual chosen for the groups by ages, and two of the 

 three selected were from the colh'ge entries. For the two-year-olds 

 the Angus Fvvie Knight from Purdue was selected, thereby reversing 

 an earlier decision in which first place for Angus two-year-olds had 

 been given to Ideal from the Kansas college. Symboleer, also an 

 Angus from the Kansas college, received the calf championship. The 

 grand championship for all breeds and ages fell to Purdue on Fyvie 

 Knight. The Iowa college won the herd championship with Kansas 

 third. 



In the cattle slaughter tests an innovation was the ante-mortem 

 rating of the animals from the killing standpoint. In this first place 

 in the two-year-old class went to an entry from the Minnesota Uni- 

 versity, with Iowa third, and Missouri fourth, and in the yearling 

 class Iowa received second and fourth place. Upon a regrading of 

 the carcasses after slaughter, with the criterion largely the require- 

 ment of the general trade, the ratings were very much altered, 

 Nebraska receiving first and Missouri second on two-year-olds, and 

 Iowa fifth on yearlings. 



In the carload-lot competition a load of " short fed " Angus year- 

 lings fed by the Purdue Station under known conditions attracted 

 much attention, and was regarded as a valuable demonstration. 



The entries of horses from the colleges were much less numerous 

 than those of fat stock. With Clydesdales Iowa received fifth prize 

 for aged stallions and third for yearlings. 



In the special class for college and station stock the competition 

 was, as usual, exceedingly close. With cattle, Purdue won first for 

 two-year-olds, and the championship for single steers with Fyvie 

 Knight. Kansas won second place on two-year-olds, with Nebraska 

 third, and Iowa fourth. For cattle one to two years old, the winner 

 was Minnesota, followed by Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. For 

 calves, Kansas won first, Minnesota second and fourth, and Iowa 

 third. The herd championship was won by Iowa. Wisconsin took 

 all the prizes for sheep except third on wether lambs, which went 

 to Iowa. Purdue received second and Iowa third for barrows under 

 12 months, and the remaining prizes for hogs went to Iowa. 



The usual large attendance of students led to the remark from 

 The Breeders' Gazette that " more and more the International is 

 becoming an elective course in the curriculum of agricultural col- 

 leges." The judging contests were participated in by teams from 

 eight institutions, and several others were represented in the crowd 

 of spectators, and at the annual meeting of the American Federation 

 of Agricultural Students, Avhich was held December 1. In the con- 

 test for the trophy offered for the liighest total scores in judging 

 horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, first place was awarded to the Iowa 



