FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV 291 



different herds. Last year there were nineteen exhibitors with a total 

 of 160 entries. Consequently, the show was larger this year by 50 

 per cent than last year. There were ten aged bulls. While the top 

 was good, there were several individuals at the tail end of the string 

 which were scarcely of county fair caliber. Reece, of Nebraska, headed 

 the list with Whitehall Rosedale. This bull is perhaps the largest 

 show bull of the breed in America today. He weighs 2,675 pounds 

 and carries his fleshing quite evenly for an animal of such scale. He 

 is typical of the English type and his scale would prove of much benefit 

 to him in a British show ring. He was later made senior champion. 

 Harding's Village Denmark was rated second. He is a bull of some 

 2,300 pounds and showed rather gaunt in the ring. This condition 

 caused him to look a trifle rough. Some judges would disagree on 

 the placing of this pair. At St. Joe, the week before, the Harding 

 bull was placed above the Reece bull. 



In the senior yearlings Saunders, of Iowa, headed the list with his 

 sensational 1913 calf, Cumberland's Type. This youngster weighed 

 1,3 00 pounds at Des Moines in 1913 when but a trifle over 11 months 

 old. In January at the Denver show he weighed 1,500 and now he 

 registers an even 1,8 00. For a calf of his size and bone he carries 

 ahove the average quality. His skin is still pliable and mellow, while 

 his covering of flesh is smooth and thick, although it might possibly 

 be a bit firmer. He was later made junior and grand champion. 



The senior bull calves formed a sight worth seeing. Had they been 

 put up at public auction after the show the entire lot could easily 

 have made a $500 average and still sold in a conservative manner. 

 The bull Uppermill Lord was a growthy calf of good width and in the 

 pink of condition. He looked well at the head. Miller, of Missouri, 

 came second with Choice Cumberland, a dark roan shown thin. He 

 looked a trifle narrov/ from either end, but put up a great appearance 

 from the side. 



There were an even twenty in the junior calves, headed again by 

 one from the Uppermill farm, with Anoka farms of Wisconsin an easy 

 second on Augusta Sultan. 



Female classes were scarcely so strong as the males. The aged cow, 

 Mildred of Oakland, a 4-year-old of show yard fame as a calf and year- 

 ling, was selected to wear the blue. In the 2-year-olds Harding headed 

 the list, with Lancaster Duchess 7th. She is showing in the highest 

 bloom and was later placed as senior and grand champion. Of the 

 fourteen senior yearlings Kilgour's Proud Rose was chosen over Surge's 

 Silver Mysie. There were twenty junior yearlings, headed by Kilgoure's 

 Fair Acres Nell. This heifer was later given the junior honors. From 

 a big class of senior calves Saunders' representatives were chosen for 

 flrst and second. This was perhaps as closely contested as any of the 

 female groups. Twenty-three junior calves were headed by Herr Bros.' 

 Cumberland Lass, a dark heifer of ample scale, 'beautiful lines and a 

 thick, even covering of flesh. Second to her stood Trueby Allen from 

 the Nebraska herd of Rapp Bros. She was good enough to head her 

 class at St. Joe and would not have looked out of place at the head 

 here, the judge admitting them to be a very close pair. 



