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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The strongest competitor he has ever had for his show yard 

 honors is his son. Hero of Court Le Blicq, which bull was Junior 

 champion at the Iowa State Fair and the recent National Dairy Show. 

 Although he is under two years old he shows good size for the Guernsey 

 breed and by the length of face and freedom from beefiness, chuffiness 

 of the neck indicates a lack of beefy qualities. The clean-cutness of the 

 withers and his angular, wedge-shape throughout shows him to be of 

 the strictly dairy type. He has plenty of depth in the chest and heart 

 girth to insure constitution; he is very long from the shoulders to the 

 hip bone and very deep of body, giving plenty of room for great develop- 

 ment of the digestive apparatus, and especially is he excellent in length 

 from the hip bones to the pin bones and free from all beefy qualities in 

 the thighs, and cuts up well in the flank. By imparting these charac- 

 teristics to his daughters it is reasonable to believe that they will be of 

 the character necessary for hard workers with constitution sufficiently 

 great to sustain their work, with capacity that may be developed so they 

 can handle great amounts of feed and with the other dairy qualifications 

 they should have the ability to convert the nutrients from the feed car- 

 ried to the udder by the mammary veins, which are already apparent 

 on the underline of this young bull, into milk and butter-fat largely and 

 profitably. 



No. 8. 



Boghall Snowdrop. First Prize and Champion Ayrihire 

 Cow at National Dairy Show. 



The Ayrshire breed of cattle originated and has been de- 

 veloped in the County of Ayr in Scotland. There are many features 

 which recommend the Ayrshires to dairymen all over the world. As a 

 breed they probably adhere more closely to the score card for dairy cat- 

 tle than any other breed. The first will be noticed in the illustration of 

 Boghall Snowdrop, owned by J. F. Converse & Co. This cow was the 

 first prize and grand champion Ayrshire cow at the 1909 National Dairy 

 Show. From the end of her nose to the tip of her tail the dairy points 



