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and a handsome front, and Elmendorf Lassie carries into this year the 

 excellencies which distinguished her last season. The galleries took a 

 little hand in the game while the judge worked well front from a place 

 down the line the handsome roan senior yearling Woodhill Belle 2d. Bar- 

 ring a little height from the ground she withstands inspection well, as 

 her lines are attractive and her color flash. She got the "glad hand" from 

 the gallery as often as she was moved up. The egglike red Vanity had 

 friends for position higher up. No one could deny the scale, the thickness 

 and the depth of the blue ribbon heifer Anoka Aconite, but somewhat of 

 hind quarter deficiency gave some ground for other preferences. The junior 

 yearlings proved a strong class and furnished perhaps the only sensational 

 feature of the Short-horn showing in the roan Miss Marshall 2d. Colored 

 in the richest of evenly-mixed roan, shaped like a Short-horn from head to 

 heels, and well grown, this miss captured all hearts. Her owner refused 

 all covetous offers for her. Sultana is a beautiful heifer on the blocky or- 

 der, with a front of rare sweetness, and Cheerful 7th is a pleasing roan. 

 The senior heifers were the strongest in numbers and quality of any of 

 the breed's classes. It was a rare sight and awakened much enthusiasm. 

 The leader was Marshal's Strathallen, a classy light roan from Elmendorf. 

 Juniors were fewer in number but of prime character, and were suitably 

 headed by Sultan Countess, one of the choicest of the famous old white 

 bull's progeny, and one of a group of four heifer calves which gained the 

 progeny prize for their size. Another white, and of similar blood, stood 

 next, the handsome Marshal's Queen. 



THE HEBEFOBDS. 



The Herefords carried distinctly the honors of the beef cattle division. 

 The entry list was so liberal that naturally some scaling down of average 

 excellence would be expected but it held at high range. Astonishingly few 

 were the inferior animals from start to finish of this exhibition. Not 

 only was the average good but it was high. The topnotchers set a mark 

 quite high for the beginning of the season and most of the others in each 

 company were entitled to consideration. Perhaps the master artists of the 

 Hereford grooms have never surpassed the early season bloom which their 

 charges reflected; certain it is that most of them were "done to a turn," 

 and with some it is a question whether condition can be evenly maintained 

 for the three months which intervene betv,een the opening of the season 

 and its close at the International. With that we are the less concerned 

 because almost wizard-like ability has been repeatedly manifested in this 

 matter by the herdsmen who finish these marvels of obesity. It is enough 

 to record that the "white-faces" were palpably the strongest breed on the 

 ground in showyard character and finish, and that the average of excel- 

 lence ran higher in almost every class. It was a highly creditable, exhibit 

 from the showmen to whose faithful, enterprising and persistent effort is 

 due in great measure the popularity the breed has obtained in this coun- 

 try. 



Awards were made with the greatest care by Thomas Mortimer, Stan- 

 ton, Neb., who found that currents of opinion ran very little diverse among 

 those who witnessed his work. 



