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Dairy Show quarantine. Hartley's Gold Laseie's Julian, a bull barely 

 outside of the limits for a two-year-old, was second in the aged class, 

 and defeated the two big Wilcox & Stubbs bulls on a nerved quality 

 that is quite attractive. The winning two-year-old, Cherry's Memento 

 of Iowa, was presented in as beautiful bloom as it is possible to attain, 

 but the merely curious would have liked to see him matched against 

 his magnificent boldly masculine stablemate, Ladysmith Cherub, that 

 came out in the get of sire class as a tribute to the champion Hayes 

 Cherub 2d. The yearlings were headed by a Jean Duluth bull from a 

 729-pound butterfat dam. Working capacity stood out in every line. 

 The closest contest of the day occurred in the senior bull calves, the 

 big milky Marathon Rose King opposing the cleanly moulded stylish 

 Flora's Memento. That show character finally carried the day for the 

 Marsh bull and brought him to junior champion illustrates how near 

 one can come to the coveted honor and yet be far from it. 



Hayes W^ena 4th set a type in the aged class that established the 

 winners in most of the female rings. As perfect a score card type as 

 has been in the Guernsey shows is illustrated in this wonderfully 

 veined level-uddered cow, and that she should be ultimate champion 

 was a foregone conclusion. Polly of Hillstead is a more capaciously 

 ribbed cow viewed from above, but the refined Guernsey character and 

 extended middle of the winner were too much for the Illinois cow. 

 Hayes Snowdrop 6th was the less mature image of Wena in the three- 

 year-olds, but in the two-year-olds the Marsh ideal was less successful 

 as a marvelous mammary spread and constitutional capacity set it 

 aside. Jean Duluth Coronet is the productive type that fills the eye 

 of the practical dairyman under every condition. A very sturdy deep 

 orange and w^hite heifer from the same herd headed the senior year- 

 lings, but the refined neat-turned stamp returned to the top in the 

 juniors. The junior champion female came from the senior heifer 

 calves in the capacious Grees' May Rose from Jean Puluth, but this 

 fact did not prevent all of the dairy talent present from according 

 with the view that the junior heifer calves were the finest evenest ring 

 of youngsters ever assembled in American showyards. H. G. Van Pelt, 

 Waterloo, Iowa, distributed the ribbons with accuracy and dispatch. 



THE AYRSHIRES. 



While some of the Ayrshire classes lacked the outstanding entries 

 that have featured previous exhibits, the evenness of the rings more 

 than compensated. Eighty-three animals from four herds passed 

 under the inspection of James Watson, Kansas City, Mo., during the 

 two days of the show and presented some complicated problems for 

 solution. Bargenock Rising Star assumed the championship burden 

 for Adam Seitz, a burden borne acceptably for so many years by his 

 sire, Bargenoch Gay Cavalier. Auchenbrain Good Gift, second in the 

 aged class, is a bull of leaner temperament, but scarcely as capacious 

 in line or masculine in carriage. Another son of Cavalier headed the 

 two-year-olds, while the younger classes were well filled with the 

 progeny of this sire. In fact over thirty-five per cent of the entries 



