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divided the Poland China breeders and has given pause to their united 

 advance has allowed the breeders of the reds to make deep inroads into 

 their territory and into the public favor which was theirs. But the dis- 

 pute is now in its twilight stage, and the big hog with quality is coming 

 to its own. The aged boar class brought out several hogs past the 1,000- 

 pound mark. The entry of Crees carried 1,090 pounds, but bore never a 

 dent nor a wrinkle, and his stocky, short legs and straight pasterns held 

 him up in flashy style. But Sievers' hog had a bit more of length and 

 also mellowness, and the judge liked him better. Paul's aged sow had 

 just weaned a litter of nine pigs and lost to Lonergan's junior yearling 

 for senior champion. A still younger one, Henry's under-one-year entry, 

 was the grand champion sow, however. She was indeed a pleasing sight, 

 not of extreme length, but smooth as a ribbon on top and belly and with 

 feet and bone that are true models of perfection. It was a show of big 

 pigs, rather than a big show, but no fair-minded critic could say that it 

 was a show of coarse ones. J. E. Meharry, veteran showman from Tolono, 

 111., was missed from the ranks. He is said to be plotting for Pan-Ameri- 

 can 1915. C. A. Marker, the man to whom, as his feeder, Meharry owes 

 much of his success, was judge, and his decisions were happy ones. 



CHESTER WHITES. 



The "Whites" also made a score of the "heaviest show yet" as regards 

 number. Thirty-seven exhibitors, all but three from Iowa, and they were 

 all there except Mr. Thos. Kent, of Walnut, Iowa, and, for the most part, 

 with good-sized herds. That veteran breeder and Judge, N. H. Gentry, 

 of Sedalia, Mo., selected the winners and he launched many a surprise. 

 Plenty of good stuff failed to capture blues in accordance with ringside 

 judgment. The sow stuff upheld the excellence of the show. 



HAMPSHHSES. 



Hampshire breeders have got the "bigger and better than ever" habit 

 and their show was in full accord with this policy. Fifteen exhibitors 

 entered some 160 pigs and they made an array royal in the Hampshire 

 pens. Some belts were wide and some were narrow, but it mattered little 

 to the judge, Mr. Wilson Paine, of Eavenport, Iowa, and quality was the 

 watchword of the show. The line-up of good boars was saved from 

 mediocrity by the top pair, and the better of these, Mr. Bunn's "Bunn's 

 Pattern," was indeed a hog to remember. The royal purple sow was 

 Yates' Gloria 2d, a rare combination of bacon side and lard back. Senti- 

 ment has a place in the Hampshire breeders regime and many beautiful 

 and costly cup trophies were awarded, amid repeated hurrahs and cheers. 

 The breeders didn't break up their rally until six o'clock and left the 

 ringside hatching plans for, in Mr. Stone's words, the best and biggest 

 show ever staged by any breed of swine at any time or at any place in 

 the world. 



BEBKSHHIES. 



Five exhibitors came under the wire in the Berkshire classes which 

 was well nigh equal to that of last year. But the Berkshire Association 

 must look to its defenses in Iowa, for but a single herd, that of lowana 

 Farms, appeared to represent the breed at this state fair, N. H. Gentry 



