TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK—PART XI 643 



Spirit Lake, Iowa, 93 S; Mrs. E. B. Shoots, Bondurant, 93; Amy B. Younky, 

 Chariton, 92*. 



THE SHORTHORNS. 



The Shorthorns were out in strength. While the exceptional individuals 

 were perhaps not as numerous this year, the general average was good, 

 and possibly better than usual. What should be a source of great pride to 

 the state was the great showing made by the Iowa exhibitors. Tietjen, 

 Edwards, and White all made a good showing, capturing two firsts, three 

 seconds, and the junior cow championship. As usual, the Elmendorf Farm 

 and Harding were out to take the largest share of firsts. Grand champion 

 bull went to the Elmendorf Farm on the phenomenal Iowa two-year-old 

 King Cumberland, who made such a strong bid last year for the champion 

 ship. Elmendorf Farm also took the grand champion cow on Sinnissippi 

 Rose 2d, a big, broad, slightly rough white matron who is hardly up to the 

 usual standard of grand champion cow. With grand champion bull, grand 

 champion cow, and a first prize senior heifer calf Elmendorf Farm had a 

 wonderfully strong exhibitor's herd, one which will make things interest- 

 ing at all the big shows this year. The other herd displays went to Hard- 

 ing. In the get of sire displays Harding had four of the offspring of the 

 famous old white bull Whitehall Sultan, ^hich won handily over the 

 Elmendorf four sired by Whitehall Marshall, the champion son of White- 

 hall Sultan. The produce of cow class again showed the potent effect of 

 the Whitehall Sultan blood, Harding winning on a couple produced by 

 Countess Cashmare, one sired by Whitehall Sultan and the other by White- 

 hall Marshall. 



The Shorthorn bull classes were strong, especially the aged and two- 

 year-old. The younger bull classes, with the exception of senior yearlings, 

 were very well filled but showed a marked lack of uniformity. It's the old 

 story of bulls \\hich have been fitted and fed from their birth up being 

 shown against youngsters which have been fitted for a few months only. 



Aged bulls came out strong, and excellent individuals were to be found 

 well toward the end of the line. Neither Whitehall King nor Whitehall 

 :Marshall were there, but Harding with Sidelight and Dunwoody with Non- 

 pareil jMarciuis filled their places quite acceptably. In the two-year-olds 

 King Cumberland, last year's junior champion, now owned by the Elmen- 

 dorf Farm, had it all to himself. The rest of the class was quite uni- 

 formly strong, but didn't commence to have the growth shown by this 

 husky Iowa product. In the junior yearlings the Elmendorf Farm again 

 came out at the top with a beautifully fitted calf, Elmendorf :Marsha]l. 

 Both the yearling bull classes made a rather light showing, but the senior 

 calf class made up for it with twenty contestants. Of course in such a 

 large class there were many animals v.hich lacked the fitting to show at 

 their best. Harding won, with White, an Iowa man. second. The junior 

 bulls were uneven. Here White won first over Harding. 



The Shorthorn cow classes were exceptionally strong from start to 

 finish. In every class there were from fifteen to thirty-three contestants 

 showing. As a v/hole the cow classes were stronger both in numbers and 



