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that season. It is seldom that such a competent list of judges has worked 

 simultaneously and this year's group bore away the respect of every spec- 

 tator and exhibitor. The addition of Sanders' herd of Dutch Belted 

 classes gave scope and added variety to the color scheme of the display. 

 If one had predicted five years ago that the dairy interests of Iowa 

 would parallel or surpass the beef interests, ho would have been classed 

 with the rest of the cranks. Yet the seats outside the ring were as 

 thickly crowded on the east side where the dairy animals were shown 

 as on the opposite side where their beef relatives disported themselves. 



IIOLSTEINS. 



When a state show develops the quality sufficient to smother the 

 Waterloo champion of last year it means that something is doing in 

 dairy circles. One of the largest and hottest contested exhibits of Hol- 

 steins ever made at a state fair came to Des Moines, and the judgment 

 of W. J. Gillett was frequently taxed to a high degree, always with 

 satisfactory results, however. 



The winner of the aged bull class and the grand champion ribbon was 

 a newcomer in showyard circles. Sir Jessie Fobes Piebe Burke, Cope- 

 stake's massive herd bull, stepped into the ring at a weight of 2,700 

 pounds. He combined with this frame a rare smoothness of shoulder, 

 a tremendous capacity of chest and a full-made open-ribbed middle. His 

 coat showed evidence that he had just come from pasture, but his skin 

 was as mellow and pliable as the most exacting judge could desire. The 

 veining and indications of mammary development in the bull were superb. 



The sensational contest was found in the aged cow class of thirteen 

 entries when Galloway's Fay Jewel Beauty, last year's breed champion 

 at Waterloo, yielded first and second places to Nelson and lowana entries. 

 Chloe Artis Jewel of Cedarside, that went through for champion, was 

 possessed of as beautiful a head, as straight lines, as level and well- 

 proportioned a rump and as capacious an udder and veining system as 

 one finds in a big cow. A slight cutting up between the quarters of 

 the udder made an arguing point for the followers of the second and 

 third animals, and the deep clean-cut freshness of Minnie Stienstra 2d 

 and the fine feminine sweetness with size in Fay Jewel Beauty made 

 friends of everyone. It was a case of an abundance of riches. The 

 three-year-old Colantha Johanna of Cedarside showed beautiful youthful 

 quality on large lined frame, and her udder and veining system were 

 so pronounced that she was favored by some against the old cow. High 

 showyard merit appeared in each individual as the rings progressed, and 

 the standard set in this sensational competition will prohably remain 

 the ideal for several years. 



JERSEYS. 



H. G. Van Pelt distributed the ribbons among a display of Jerseys that 

 failed to reach last year's numbers, but that strongly rivaled the tops 

 in that exhibition. Mrs. Fabyan's Ocean Blue has come through the past 

 year in excellent bloom and is packed with Jersey character in every 

 line. Bering's herd deserves a word of high commendation, as his first 

 appearance on the circuit was highly successful. His entries teemed 



