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ment of hindquarter the Missouri bull is superior. Barbarian of 

 Rosemere is a heavy-crested, level-lined, well-fitted chap. Among the 

 eight two-year-olds the average was perhaps not so high, but the two 

 top bulls presented a strength not often mustered at the age. (Black- 

 cap Bertram is of admirable form, especially strong in accuracy of 

 hind-end and set of legs, while Knight of Rosemere carries his un- 

 usual bulk on very brief underpinning. Both these bulls apparently 

 had gratified fully an over-thirst before coming into the ring. There 

 seems little excuse for such abnormally-distended abdomens as they 

 carried. Earl Marshal holds his form smoothly and neatly. 



The senior yearlings had a good head to the class, in the unusually 

 smooth Blatant, and the six sappy junior yearlings produced the grand 

 champion in Epistos, a son of Undulata Blackcap Ito 2d. This is a 

 bull fashioned much as the name of his sire would suggest. He is 

 decidedly on the blocky order and very neatly finished fore and aft. 

 The Caldwells came into the bull championship v.ith all the winners 

 except the two calves. Inverne of Rosemore is taller and about as 

 smooth and fairly level in his top line, better in this respect then 

 Pilot of Denison. The senior calves were a splendid lot and presented 

 a problem in type which was solved hardly to the agreement of the 

 talent. The judge said that Blackcap Poe, the largest of the com- 

 pany, a youngster of exceptional shapeliness and quality, should vilher 

 be first or last on account of type, and he left him last. Incidentally 

 he is full brother to the bull that went to the Ames Plantation in 

 Tennessee at $5,000, but that is neither here nor there in the ring- 

 side estimate which ran quite distinctly in favor of recognition of 

 Blackcap Poe. A capital bull gained the blue — Belmont A, about as 

 true in his lines and as level of back as they make them. He has not 

 much the edge on Enlate when it comes to trueness of lines, but is his 

 superior in tail-head finish. The winning junior bull calf is a rare 

 one, of much scale and bulk for the company and rounded out into 

 accurate doddie conformation. Killum is extremely nuggety in build. 



THE FEMALES. 



striking as were the bull classes still more imposing were the rings 

 of females. When thirteen such aged cows have foregathered in an 

 American showring is not known to the breed followers. But the 

 aged cows were not the only ring of superlative excellence. The uni- 

 formity from matrons to babies was such that even the most partisan 

 of the ringside deserted their own favorites until the blacks' fate was 

 settled. 



Pride Petite came out in the same mellowed form that carried her 

 to the numerous purples of last season, and although Battles' Quissy 

 of Meadowbrook shov/ed an equal spread of frame and a thicker meated 

 top, the bloom of the veteran carried her through. Four richly 

 muscled cows from the Escher herds followed with a Battles cow of 

 similar type in ahead of the last one. The differences were all of 

 degree in this quintette, the type being uniform. The reward of the 

 emooth-forraed meatiness in the Escher entries was found in the two- 



