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ness from every angle. He is a highly worthy, if not superior, successor 

 to the great line of show bulls that has come from the Miller herd. The 

 aged cow went through for champion, and is fit for honors among the 

 Shorthorn rings. Deep, wide, capacious and maternal, a four-year-old that 

 has already produced three calves, she is a fit example of the proper 

 breeding and show combination. The roan Loch Dale Roanette dupli- 

 cated her International junior championship by repeating the award at 

 Des Moines. She is very sweetly feminine and carries a middle and 

 frame that bespeaks a future in the breeding herd. L. G. Shaver made 

 the awards. 



THE RED POLLS. 



After the crest of every wave one finds the trough, and so last year's 

 unequaled lineup of Red Polls fell in marked contrast for this year's show. 

 The awards were predominantly Haussler Bros., who have added the Davis 

 herd to their holdings. Their champion bull was a full-framed fellow 

 of properly balanced type and their herd showed every evidence of care- 

 ful study and preparation. W. S. Hill contested every award with 

 strength and bore away the female purple on his beautiful lined matron 

 Nancy. In her class she competed against Gazelle, a cow of almost 

 duplicate type, that lacked slightly in scale although somewhat better 

 fleshed. Prof. Andrew Boss made the alignments. 



THE FAT STEERS. 



The step in advance in this section lay not in the worth of the cattle, 

 but in the abolition of the time-worn system of committee judging by the 

 several breed arbiters on grand champion awards. Tom Cross of Clay, 

 Robinson & Co.'s selling staff at Chicago, was selected for this task and 

 performed it in approved showyard manner. His champion steer and 

 herd were both outstanding. The grade Angus champion of Rosenfeld's 

 was a very thickfleshed mellow two-year-old that quite surpassed in scale 

 and quality every competitor in the unsexed classes. With the able 

 assistance of a fair yearling and a first-class calf he carried away the 

 herd honors. 'SauTiders and Tow made their usual commendable showing 

 of Shorthorns and Herefords, respectively. The free-martin calf shown 

 by Wickersham took the grade Shorthorn championship, and the hand- 

 some snappy purebred yearling of Oloff's that wore the purple in the 

 Shorthorn division drew many favorable comments. The display of these 

 excellent steers in a season of beef famine and climatic drouth is highly 

 creditable to the steadfastness of Iowa steer feeders. 



THE DAIRY CATTLE. 



If state fair exhibits afford any indication of a commonwealth's prog- 

 ress, the milch cows of Iowa are forging ahead more rapidly than any 

 other class of animals. A 13 per cent increase in the number of entries 

 afforded the largest exhibit of this sort at any fair west of the Missis- 

 sippi. The Holstein and Guernsey shows passed the high-water mark and 

 the Ayrshires, Brown Swiss and Dutch Belted lent color and quality to 

 already engorged displays. The Jerseys lacked somewhat as compared 

 to last year's numbers, but the tops rivaled in quality the good ones of 



