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Percheron showing. There is also coming to be a closer correspondence 

 between the open classes and the "bred by exhibitor" shows. The 

 younger stallion classes were close, also the mare classes throughout the 

 entire showing. The first place winner in the aged stallion class was a 

 good draft type and one of the sort that looked good to breeders. There 

 was a little criticism of the placing in the class of mares with foal at 

 side, and the one three-year-old stallion class, but most of the classes 

 were so close and so good that much balancing of fine points was neces- 

 sary to get the winners. R. E. Drennan, of Canada, started the judging 

 Saturday, but was taken ill and on Monday and Tuesday Alex Galbraith, 

 of DeKalb, 111., acted. In the futurity classes, which again attracted much 

 attention, Mr. Galbraith was assisted by Peter Hopley, of Lewis, Iowa. 



BELGIANS. 



Some really high-class horses were out for places in the Belgian show. 

 An International winner took the lead among the stallions and good 

 entries prevailed in all the male showing. When the grand display of 

 five stallions was called, the Champlin quintette of chestnuts that won 

 this ribbon showed a uniformity of type and a quality of the best sort 

 which would have been hard to defeat anywhere. The champions were 

 all Iowa owned. W. J. Kennedy, of Sioux City, Iowa, was judge and was 

 assisted in the futurity classes by John Truman, of Bushnell, 111. 



SiWINE. 



DUROC JEESETS. 



The show of "Reds" was a popular one with the onlookers, and much 

 spirit was manifested. The Durocs had the greatest number of exhibitors 

 entered and the most pens ordered, but they had to yield in numbers on 

 the ground to the Chester Whites. Mr. A. J. Lovejoy, of Roscoe, 111., the 

 judge, was confronted by many a stiff proposition, but succeeded in 

 giving satisfaction. The line-up of twelve aged boars showed at once that 

 the $25, which a Duroc Record Association had offered for the heaviest 

 pig on the grounds, would not go to a red one. However, they were the 

 kind that grow fast and dress well. Waltemeyer took the blue here and 

 again on his senior yearling, a big, sturdy fellow, upright, with big bone 

 and as smooth as a ribbon. Waltemeyer again drove out a beautiful top 

 to the aged sow ring, a short-legged individual with most enticing lines. 

 Waltemeyer lost the ribbon on his senior yearling sow because of a bad 

 tumor in her udder, but he came back in the under-one-year class. The 

 ring of nineteen good ones was the hottest contest of the show and caused 

 the judge to ponder long. He finally turned down some choice, low-down, 

 thick ones of Vanderhyde's for a trio with more youth and stretch, headed 

 by Waltemeyer's. Waltemeyer camp has, in fact, cause to rejoice. Against 

 a field of some forty exhibitors they captured all six championship ribbons. 



POLAND CHINAS. 



The Poland China show needs no apology. It was a worthy one, but 

 recollections of only a few years back, when the entries were more numer- 

 ous by threefold, could not be repressed. The dispute on type which, has 



