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valuation. For capacity, veining and quality she outshone any other 

 female of the breed. lowana captured both yearling firsts on daughters 

 of Sir Johanna Fayne, while the first-prize senior heifer calf was a 

 remarkably strong-framed capacious youngster, Wayne Bonheur DeKol. 

 The group competitions were keen, lowana taking three firsts and 

 Galloway Messer Farms two. 



THE JERSEYS. 



The rings representing this channel breed were not as tightly 

 crowded as others, but the keen-edged competition supplied a zest that 

 can never come from numbers alone. Adjudication rested in the hands 

 of Will Forbes, Waterloo, Iowa, and several tangled situations required 

 unraveling before the alignment was perfected. Stockwell's Champion 

 has the aristocratic bearing common to most of his kin, and presented 

 a bold masculine capacity and razor-tempered quality that overwhelmed 

 his bulkier rival, Noble's Fawn Prince. A very pretty trio from Mrs. 

 Fabyan's Riverbank Farm jousted among themselves for two-year-old 

 honors, the decision finally falling to Fern's Noble of Riverbank, a bull 

 of distinctly Island stamp. The yearling and junior champion also 

 came from this farm, a precocious youngster with most acceptable 

 mammary suggestion. Combination's Premier Jr. is a type of bull 

 that falls well within the pattern established in the preceding classes, 

 but he had a hot fight with Blue Mundi, the oldest son of the Champion 

 Ocean Blue at this fair. The younger classes in general bore tribute 

 to the influence of this sire for the senior bull calves were headed by 

 a son, and the senior heifer calves showed daughters in first and fifth 

 place. 



The aged cows developed four good ones. Manor's Blossom is out- 

 standing, all of the elements of Jersey feminine ideals being hers in 

 bountiful measure. She excelled her rival, Eminent's Grace, by a 

 slightly more accentuated definition of line and a greater sweep of 

 middle, but in the mammary system Eminent's Grace yielded to none. 

 Raleigh's Little Torment is a pretty three-year-old and bore promise 

 of an industrious future, but neither she nor her strongly formed 

 stablemate Raleigh's Missie G, the winning two-year-old, could over- 

 come the matronly assertiveness of Manor's Blossom. The younger 

 heifers were most attractive. Underwood's Lady Bashua; Mr. Young's 

 three juniors headed by iRaleigh's Cream Pot; Ocean Blue's Cowslip, 

 the capacious senior heifer calf; and the precociously spread Frederick's 

 Lady Marjorie from among the junior calves, but the fresh femininity 

 of Lady Bashua prevailed. 



THE GUERNSEYS. 



Guernseys were imposing. From the Waterloo herds of W. W. 

 Marsh came some of the finest types that have yet stepped into an 

 American showing, many of the younger being of his breeding, while 

 Jean Duluth farm presented some Impressive working types to furnish 

 keenest competition. Hayes Cherub 2d came back to champion honors 

 without the slightest difficulty, after passing through the National 



