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Queen. However, a still belter individual was found among the three- 

 year-olds, in Jewel Walker Gerben, and accordingly senior and grand 

 champion honors were awarded her. The Galloway-Messer Farms also 

 presented Hengerveld King for grand champion honors in the bull 

 division, and perhaps no better suggestion of the merit of this animal 

 can be given than that suggested by the judge, who declared that his 

 strongest point was in his having no weak points. Roberts' Abbekirk 

 Pontiac, the junior champion bull, is a youngster of excellent Holstein 

 type and development. lowana Pauline was the junior champion heifer, 

 winning this place because of her excellent development in size and 

 breed character. Taken as a whole, the exhibit of dairy cattle for 

 1916 was one that was eminently creditable both to the individual 

 breeders and to the state. Also, it was fully significant of the great 

 strides that the dairy industry is taking in Iowa, with indications of 

 tremendous development in the future. 



THE HORSE SHOW. 



The 1916 exhibit of horses at the Iowa State Pair was an abundant 

 credit to the great state of Iowa, and an equally splendid example of 

 the constructive work in horse breeding that is being done in the corn 

 belt region. The wisdom of the board of directors of the fair, in start- 

 ing out several years ago to make the show in Iowa a breeders' exhibit, 

 is now being demonstrated. Splendid displays of equine excellence 

 were seen at this point a decade or more of years ago, but at that time 

 it was practically altogether an importers' and dealers exhibit. If any- 

 thing happened to cut out the exhibits of one or two men, the show 

 suffered accordingly. With the beginning of the effort to stimulate 

 the showing of home-bred stuff, the Des Moines horse show took on 

 a new feature of development, and has progressed along this line at a 

 rate which has surprised even the most sanguine. No better draft 

 horse display l^&s ever been seen on the state fair ground than was shown 

 this year, and a splendid feature of this great exhibit was the balance of 

 the entire display. The features of the show were the large cla:Eses in 

 the futurities and open classes for youngsters, and the uniform excel 

 lence and development of these American-bred colts. It was a ready re- 

 mark by many competent observers that any group of European colts 

 ever imported would have found it a difficult task to win largely in com 

 petition with the winners of the Iowa show this year. The bulk of the 

 exhibit was shown by breeders living within the state, and it is a clearly 

 demonstrated fact that the draft horse Industry in Iowa is on a 

 particularly sound basis, and well in the lead of that of any other state. 

 Iowa breeders have not only shown fundamental wisdom in the selec- 

 tion of the proper sort of seed material for the establishment of their 

 breeding studs, but they have also already demonstrated their ability to 

 develop and bring out their young stuff equal to that of any other 

 breeders in the world. With the success of the pioneers in the draft 

 horse industry many farmers all over the entire state are becomin,g in- 

 terested in producing first-class jjure-bred colts. Wo feol Lure that it 



