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type. So good, indeed, he is that Blackcap Bertram — who won senior 

 championship honors — was forced to acknowledge defeat and allow 

 the youngster the grand championship honors. The senior calves 

 presented a problem. Variation in type was the thorn in the flesh, but 

 a medium type was chosen to head the group, and by following it 

 consistently, the judge steered a safe course. Less trouble of the same 

 sort came with the juniors, but they were a good lot, requiring care- 

 ful work. 



It was a grand sight when the thirteen aged cows lined up in the 

 arena. The best of the breed was present, and it was even more diffi- 

 cult to designate the last than it was the first. Honors finally went to 

 the almost faultness typed Pride Petite with Quissy of Meadowbrook 

 being nosed out only by inches. Indeed, little separated the animals 

 in any of the placings, and we have seen classes with as much differ- 

 ence between first and second as there was between one and thirteen 

 in this group. Said Judge John Robbins: "I have never seen another 

 class of any breed to equal it." With the same number in, the two- 

 year-olds were scarcely less remarkable than were the matrons; and 

 all that has been said of the latter is about as applicable to the de- 

 butantes. It is useless to mention individuals, as tliere was too much 

 of excellence to speak of in so brief a space. Again came thirteen 

 — this time the senior yearlings. As the Irishman said, the first 

 class may have been an accident, the second coincidence, but surely 

 the third time demonstrated that it was a habit — nothing more need 

 be said. Neither will we attempt to comment on the fourth class of 

 thirteen lovely lasses that made up the junior yearling group. It is 

 enough to say that though size diminished, as the younger classes 

 kept coming, merit did not. Only eleven senior calves appeared, but 

 an even dozen of the youngest sort were ready for their initial ap- 

 pearance. Among them came Queen of Rosemere 5th, a little lady all 

 dressed in black, so dainty and winsome, so typical and characteristic, 

 that after winning the blue, she was declared deserving of the junior 

 purple. With her tender age, she did not show sufficient development 

 for further honors, and Pride Petite gained the premier award. 



The grotip shows were only repeated displays of the former mag- 

 nificent exhibits, except that the repetition was on a far more gen- 

 erous scale. Surely, the disciples of McCombie and Watson in this 

 country have no reasons to feel daunted, or ever to veto their slogan, 

 "Black and all black; the Angus Doddie, and no surrender." 



HEREFORDS. 



Fewer numbers were cataloged for the Hereford display than were 

 found in the Shorthorn class, but quality was the watchword of the 

 show, and really some previous Hereford shows at the Iowa State Fair 

 can be said to have been better only because more animare of outstand- 

 ing merit were shown. The show was not small in numbers, however, 

 and with ten to fifteen head competing in most of the classes, com- 

 petition was strenuous. The Hereford show differed from that of the 

 Shorthorns at this fair in that it was not so largely a show of Iowa 



