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THE AYBSHIRES. 



Bargenoch Gay Cavalier was the only aged bull shown, but he is worth 

 a dozen of the ordinary kind. Weighing right at 1,900 pounds and wonder- 

 fully strong of top and deep of middle, he is a remarkable bull. The 

 grand championship was easy for him. An exceptional show of aged 

 cows numbered eight head and was handily won by Kilnford Bell 3d, 

 renowned as grand champion over all breeds at the National Dairy Show. 

 She has extra size, strong top, great capacity, and tremendous veining. 

 Her udder is very mellow, but, as she is now nearly dry, her showing was 

 not as impressive as it will be later in the season. Hillhouse Maud 2d 

 is rather small, but has quality, barrel, veins, and teat-placement over 

 Kilnford Bell 4th, given third. Carston Lady Mary Stuart is fleshy and 

 not in milk, and Dorothy Ann is somewhat deficient in size of milking 

 machinery. The junior champion female was the senior yearling 

 Cavalier's Violet, a promising heifer of nice type. Hugh Van Pelt made 

 the awards. 



THE BROWN SWISS. 



Improvement in the quality, character, and milking capacity of Brown 

 Swiss during recent years was strongly evidenced at this year's show. 

 Three herds furnished good competition. Myone Boy, winner of the aged 

 class and grand championship, is an outstanding individual with an 

 excellent head, great depth of rib, true lines, and plenty of size. His 

 quality of hide and bone, capacity and style are noteworthy. The winner 

 of the two-year-old class, Prince George of Osceola, is a splendid bull, 

 but had not the quality nor depth of forerib characteristic of the cham- 

 pion. Ten aged cows furnished a remarkably strong class among which 

 Hildare was strongest in quality and trueness to type. She was made the 

 champion cow. AUynhurst Farm was reserve on a very promising junior 

 calf. Hugh Van Pelt made the awards. 



THE SHEEP SHOW. 



C. H. Tribby, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, served his first term as superintendent 

 of sheep this year, ably assisted by M. G. Thornburg, Ames, Iowa. Mr. 

 Tribby had written letters to all who had exhibited sheep at this fair 

 for the last two years, urging them to show this season, and as a conse- 

 quence the sheep exhibit far outstripped the shows of recent years. 

 Facilities for housing and exhibiting the sheep to advantage were wholly 

 inadequate and the shepherds are accumulating ammunition to use in a 

 strong plea to the legislature for quarters more in keeping with the ex- 

 cellence of their show. 



. The big feature was naturally the Shropshire exhibit. Rings of fifteen 

 to twenty head each were common in the yearling and lamb classes, and 

 the judge, J. G. Hammer, formerly of Ontario, but now at Ames, Iowa, pro- 

 nounced this the best show of Shropshires he had ever seen outside the 

 international. Aged and yearling ram prizes went to Anoka on Buttar 

 sheep. Mr. Hammer was at a loss to decide between the yearling ewes 

 of Eddingfield and Anoka and asked for a referee. Eddingfield's was 



