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other classes were filled in like proportion. The fair management has 

 wisely put the Guernseys on the same liberal classification as Holsteins, 

 giving five good cash prizes in each class. With this favorable beginning 

 Guernsey breeders feel greatly encouraged over their prospects. 



THE JERSEYS. 



Th Jersey show was confined to three herds, but there were some truly 

 great bulls and cows shown. H. G. Van Pelt made the awards and insisted 

 on utility. The show yard type is with him the useful kind. Long dis- 

 tance yielding capacity v>as sought in the winners. No point was over- 

 looked that might give an inkling of every animals' real character and 

 when the job was done there were reasons at hand for every decision. An 

 impressive bull was found in Victoria's Champion Lad from the Nebraska 

 herd. As a dairy type he looks the part of an impressive sire of deep 

 milking, vigorous heifers, and bore off the championship honors with dig- 

 nity. Two especially grand old cows lined up among the matrons and 

 quickly went to the top. The fourteen-year-old .Jersey Dairy Maid carries 

 a depth of rib and flank rarely found and an udder that extends forward 

 and backward to a tremendous degree. Long milk veins, increase in tor- 

 tuousness by long years of use, complete an imposing picture of dairy ca- 

 pacity. Her quality is of the refined Island type and there was no breath 

 of dissent when she was crowned champion female of the breed. Pedros 

 Lovely, a nine-year-old stable mate was another of the great producing 

 kind, equipped with great capacity for feed and for milk making. These 

 two wore outstanding examples of the degree to which dairy powers may be 

 developed, and comparing thtm with their contestants down the line they 

 enforced the thought that this super-excellence is rare and difficult to pro- 

 duce. 



Tin; AYHSIIIKKS. 



This year the classification aftorded sufficient inducement to bring in 

 the Ayrshire herd of Barclay Farm from Pennsylvania. Few herds of the 

 breed exist in Iowa. Everyone was interested in them, as they well might 

 be, for this show herd has been carefully selected and is representative 

 .of the excellencies of the breed. It was indeed a beautiful sight made by 

 this herd of uniform type with upturned horns, compact smooth bodies and 

 prevailing white, spotted with just a little color. The bulls are vigorous, 

 masculine, aggressive, nervous chaps; the cows, low set, wide through the 

 chest and flank, with great spreading udders clinging close to their under- 

 lines. Even those milking heavily carried a covering of flesh, indicating 

 their good dual purpose character. The 26 head made a full show of great 

 educational value and a credit to their breed. 



TriK I'.VT STEERS. 



The classification of fat steers has been extended this year to jirovide 

 for the showing of grades and crossbreds of each breed separately instead 

 of collectively as were formerly done. This gives owners of grade steers a 

 splendid opportunity to show their cattle to advantage. The prizes for the 

 grades of each breed are the same as for the pure-breds. This liberal at- 



