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to his owner, this promising young stallion having been bred and raised 

 by Mr. Hixson. 



DRAFT GELDINGS AND MARES. 



A goodly number of choice draft geldings and mares lined up for the 

 placing of Robert Ogilvie, of Chicago, 111., on the big drafters. The gelding 

 Trochu, shown by Robert Burgess & Son, was easily the pick animal in 

 this department. He combined style, action, massiveness and excellent 

 finish. Three of the Swift horses were in the ring, but outside of the 

 money, each one having a defect fatal enough to place it down in the 

 mind of the judge, one being too fine in the bone and the others faulty 

 in their action. However, when it came time for the horses in harness 

 the big packing firm had things their own way. The wheelers hitched to 

 the dray won the money for draft team in harness. With the swing team 

 added the four won the silver cup offered in that class, while the ad- 

 dition of the leaders added another cup to their list of trophies. The 

 Swift teams excelled their rivals in massiveness, in style, and were more 

 evenly mated. 



HACKNEYS. 



The judging of this breed by Mr. Alexander Galbraith, of DeKalb, 111., 

 called forth no small amount of favorable comment from breeders and ex- 

 hibitors, and the display of the animals won frequent applause from the 

 crowds, who were caught by the style and action of the British high 

 steppers. The major portion of the most coveted ribbons went to the Tru- 

 man's Pioneer Stud Farm at Bushnell, 111. 



GERMAN COACHEES. 



Messrs. J. Crouch & Son, of Lafayette, Ind., were the only exhibitors 

 in this department of the show, but what the exhibition lacked in com- 

 petition was not wanting in excellence and attractiveness. In the string 

 presented by them were many animals which have won ribbons in the 

 best show rings both at home and abroad. 



SWINE. 



It was a good show. Some of the old timers, whose observation covers 

 a period of time embracing about all the Iowa State fairs held since hogs 

 became one of its greatest factors, expressed the belief that it was as 

 good an exhibit of hogs as has ever been gotten together. The fact that 

 there were some 600 head fewer than were in the pens last year really 

 contributed toward the high average range of quality that prevailed in 

 most breeds. This applies to the sale stuff in the barn as well as to those 

 driven into the show rings. 



In the competition of aged animals there were really some remarkable 

 classes, not only on account of the large numbers, but as well because 

 of the absence of any proportion of quality of a mediocre or ordinary 

 character. The animals in these classes were meritorious throughout, 

 regardless of breed. It is an item that speaks well for the breeders as a 

 class, that the matured animals put forward in this fair possessed in an 



