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he had ever placed his hands on. Throughout the classes of two-year-olds, 

 senior and junior yearlings, the competition continued very strong, th0 

 decision usually going to the smoother heifers. The junior yearling heifer 

 class was an especially puzzling one, the superior finish and smoothness 

 of fleshing on McHenry's Pride McHenry 73d finally bringing the victory 

 into the McHenry herd. In the heifer calf classes Binnie was awarded 

 the first place with McHenry stuff a close second. The senior, junior and 

 grand championships all went McHenryward. The blues came with such 

 regularity that Mr. McHenry at last seated himself on a chair out in the 

 ring and complacently watched the judge and clerks put on the blue and 

 purple ribbons. Glenfoil Thickset, Quality Prince, Barbara McHenry 24th 

 and Blackbird McHenry 76th are a quartet of which any man might justly 

 be proud. 



BED POLLED. 



Prof. Wayne Dinsmore, of the Iowa State College at Ames, placed the 

 awards in the splendid rings of the Red Polled cattle shown at the Iowa 

 State Fair. D. E. Clark's aged bull, Durock, climbed from his position 

 as third at last year's fair and won first in his class and the champion- 

 ship of this dual purpose breed. Logan, shown by Clouss, still held 

 his place as second in the class of aged bulls, while Graff's Ito, last year's 

 best two-year-old, had to be content with third among the matured bulls. 

 Durock is a large, thick-set bull, much on the beefy order, with a smooth- 

 ness and finish that made it impossible to beat him at Des Moines. Cora 

 v., the champion cow, beat Inez, last year's champion, for first honors. 

 She is a very good example of the dual purpose cow, being medium low 

 set, large, with plenty of length of body, while at the same time she 

 carries an udder that some of the dairy breeds would have a hard time 

 to find room for. 



POLLED DUBHAMS. 



Each year the same number of the leading herds of Polled Durhams 

 appear at the Iowa State Fair. As if arranged by schedule, when one 

 breeder drops out of the contest for a season another stands ready to fill 

 In the gap so that a representative showing of the breed may be made. 

 Messrs. Hadley of Indiana and Smiley of Wisconsin were among the exhib- 

 iiors a year ago, but their places w-ere filled this season by two new Iowa 

 exhibitors, J. J. Williams of Grandview and Jacob Marti of Lansing. Both 

 breeders presented well grown and fitted entries and had no diflBculty in 

 securing their shares of the prize money. Williams' herd bull. Sugar Hill 

 Marshall, although appearing in little better than field shape, possessed 

 such breed character and general excellence as to give him undisputed 

 title to the grand championship. He is unquestionably a strong repre- 

 sentative of the breed. The judging was done by Mr. L. G. Shaver, of Ka- 

 lona, Iowa, who has established a reputation as a breeder of Polled Dur- 

 hams. His decisions were acceptable to exhibitor and visitor alike. 



GALLOWAYS. 



"There are not enough of them, but the animals are of the first 

 quality," is the way E. T. Davis, of Iowa City, Iowa, judge of the Gallo- 



