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life endurable and more pleasant tor the porcine contingent. Most 

 of the judges worked with alacrity and by Tuesday noon the judging 

 was practically completed. 



Tliere was a time when the large-type hog found no friends with 

 the Iowa judges. That times have changed was clearly evidenced in 

 looking over the winners in each class. Apparently the question now 

 confronting the breeder is only one of how far the big type will be 

 carried before the limit is reached, and those who a short time back 

 were still fighting for the old standard have gracefully fallen into 

 line. 



Seven hundred and three entries of Durocs ensured full rings for 

 Wilson Rowe to appraise. Men who have seen the Duroc-Jersey show 

 at Des Moines for years thought quality was scarcely up to that of 

 some previous exhibitions. There seemed to be a decided winner in 

 each class however. Waltemeyer's Great Wonder was first in the aged 

 boar class and grand champion. While not so large as some he carries 

 many indications of ruggedness and is essentially of the popular large 

 type. Perhaps the strongest show was made by the junior yearling 

 sows, of which some 30 were driven out. This made a magnificent 

 group and was well up to any class ever before seen in the pavilion. 



The championship went to the Genoa Indian School on Critic's Per- 

 fection, a three-year-old entry. This victory was of interest in that 

 Noble Bennett, an Indian lad of 18 summers, had done all of the fitting 

 of this herd. She is the daughter of Critic B. Four of her 1915 pigs 

 made winnings in the yearling classes. She appeared in the ring in 

 a highly fitted state but smooth of body as a 6 weeks pig. 



Length, bone and scale — ^such words best tell the story of the 

 Poland-China classes here. It was decidedly a big-type show and the 

 judge, Thomas Shattuck, adhered quite consistently to the hogs with 

 most scale in making allotments. Long Big Bone headed a fair class 

 of aged boars, and was handily at the top. His 1,085 pounds, carried 

 in a well balanced manner on excellent-set limbs made him the very 

 popular choice for championship honors. Below first place ringside 

 talent differed with the judge. Smooth Big Bob, the junior champion 

 of the show, was a strong winner in his class and might in time de- 

 velop to the equal of the aged hog, possibly excelling him in smooth- 

 ness. 



In aged sows Ike Overton proved invincible and captured both the 

 blue and red, the winner of the former gaining the championship later. 

 She possessed a wonderful underpinning, her pasterns being short 

 and erect with toes set snugly to each other. She would tip the heam 

 at 850 pounds. Yet she handled herself with ease. 



The Berkshires appeared in much greater strength than in recent 

 years, as this show has rather been neglected of late by exhibitors of 

 this breed. From the names on the prize list, made by N. H. Gentry, 

 Sedalia, Mo., it may safely be concluded that the breed's claims were 

 stoutly presented. The senior and grand champion boar. Rival's 

 lowana's Baron, was an outstanding winner, a boar of decided show 

 yard character. The junior yearling boar from Kansas revealed that 



