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with quality and were so full of capacity that they could rightly be 

 termed big "little cows." The udders were well placed on all. The 

 champion cow was possessed of fine matronly outlines and promises to 

 threaten the supremacy of the leaders in some of the larger shows. 

 Chaffee's herd possessed many excellent animals, but they had not yet at- 

 tained the bloom and fit that the showyard calls for. This handicap is 

 something that the future can easily remove. 



GUERNSEYS. 



Iowa has rejoiced in some excellent shows of this breed in former 

 years, but never has quality gone clear down the line in every ring so 

 markedly. Although the older bull classes were each headed by outstand- 

 ing animals, yet this fact by no means decries the contestants down the 

 line. Mr. Marsh uncovered what promises to be the breed's sensation 

 this season in his recently imported Hayes Cherub 2d, a short age three- 

 year-old whose every line exudes Guernsey milkiness. He carries the 

 richest secretions and was so sensationally patterned that the purple 

 award was unquestioned. That product of the two Marsh champions of 

 previous circuits, Bopeep's Mar of Iowa, has grown away from his baby 

 form of the last National Dairy Show in a most acceptable manner and 

 headed the yearling class in easy style. The senior bull calves by their 

 number and closeness in merit, probably gave Charles L. Hill his worst 

 puzzler in the male awards, but his alignments called forth only satis- 

 fied comments. The lean-lined promise of these babies augurs well for 

 the Guernsey herds of the next few years. 



The cows brought forth a new blue ribbon wearer in the capacious Glen- 

 wood's Hazel. Her freshness, trimness and rich color, coupled with a 

 tortuous mammary spread from a level-floored tight-set udder, gave her 

 the advantage over Fox's thirteen-year-old campaigner Essie Jeweler. Age 

 does not mar the beauty of the matron's head nor the milkiness of her 

 proportions, but both udder and belly swing looser from her lower line 

 than in former shows. It was not until the senior yearling class that the 

 female classes began to get sensational and then each added ring out- 

 shone the previous one. Both judges and breed followers proclaimed this 

 the best show in the point of continued excellence throughout all entries 

 ever brought together in an American showring. The stretchy imp. More- 

 land Aquamarine emerged on top of the senior yearlings and by her 

 remairkable character went through to the championship. As an example 

 of successful inbreeding this heifer is notable, her four grandparents all 

 being sired by the same bull, imp. Golden Secret. 



AYRSHIKES. 



Only two herds were entered in the Ayrshire comipetition and the 

 seasoned preparation of the Seitz entries was such that Prof. Kennedy 

 gave them all awards over the Galloway contestants. This was "Wm. Gal- 

 loway's first year as an Ayrshire exhibitor. The champion bull was a very 

 high type of the breed, square-lined, mellow, with a highly prepotent tem- 

 perament. The champion cow was somewhat stretchier than the breed de- 

 mands, a point in which she lost to her stablemate that stood second, but 



