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some other breeds, the showing of the "pugnoses" included excellent in- 

 dividuals. 



The Hampshire show approached closely in numbers that of former 

 years. The champion boar was of unusual length and the favorite of the 

 ringside. The Saltone Stock Farm had things largely its own way in 

 the sow classes. Its champion sow Pearl's Choice combines in a large 

 measure size, strength of bone and smoothness. 



In the bacon breeds the Large Yorkshires led in numbers. The cham- 

 pion Large Yorkshire boar, owned by Mr. Manley, is one of the best ever 

 shown. Mr. Kunkle won the largest share of the premiums, although he 

 was not able to make a clean sweep, as Davidson's and Burk's entries 

 pressed close and often passed him. The only Tamworths were those 

 of J. B. Machoy of Iowa. The judge commented very highly upon these, 

 especially the aged sow. 



The judges were as follows: Poland-Chinas, Lloyd Mugg, Kokomo, Ind. 

 Duroc-Jerseys, A. J. Lovejoy, Roscoe, 111.; Chester Whites, W. A. Hoover, 

 Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Harry Lewis, Geneseo, 111. Berkshires, N. H. 

 Gentry, Sedalia, Mo. Hampshires, Wilson Rowe, Davenport, Iowa. Large 

 Yorkshires and Tamworths, C. C. Roup, Talona, Iowa. 



THE HORSE DISPLAY. 



By a margin of 75 head the largest number of horses ever stabled 

 on the Iowa fair grounds reported this year. The gain was chiefly in 

 the light horse sections, due to imprpved classification in that division, 

 but the wonderful strides made by Iowa Belgian, Shire and Percheron 

 breeders are evident, particularly in the case of the Belgian rings, as 

 importers stated that they had never seen even at the Brussels show 

 such capital rings of three-year-old and two-year-old females. The draft 

 horse is becoming more firmly entrenched in the practices of Iowa farm- 

 ers, and although this year showed a diminished number of importers 

 yet in only a few instances did the rings suffer much in quality. The 

 development of the industry in Iowa to this firmly entrenched point is 

 largely the result of the educational and advertising possibilities of the 

 state fair. 



A valuable modification in the classification separated the yeld mares 

 from those with foal and permitted the showing of brood mares and 

 foals together, each counting 50 per cent. The result of this division was 

 most marked in the Shire and Clydesdale classes, although some excel- 

 lent entries appeared among the Percherons and Belgians. 



PERCHERON S. 



In some respects the Percheron show this year was disappointing. In 

 the mare classes down to the yearlings there was much lack of uniformity. 

 A very tidy type of mare appeared for Dunhams in Ilda, which won the 

 yeld mare class, but she was closely pressed by the low-set massive chest- 

 nut Hemine. This mare was favored by many, but had scarce the quality, 

 feet and action possessed by the winner. The champion of the sex was 

 found in the winner of the yearling class, the sensational Couceorous. 

 She was a black filly of beautiful top line with exceptionally square-set 



