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first-prize aged bull, and senior and grand champion bull of the show. 

 Teddy's Charmer, first-prize junior yearling bull, was made junior cham- 

 pion. 



In female classes, Professor Boss found the cow, Nancy, a deep, large- 

 bodied cow, that had the requirements of a good milker and scale and 

 quality enough to show that she possessed beefing capacity. She was 

 placed first in her class and later was given senior and grand cham- 

 pionship honors, competing with the junior yearling winner and junior 

 champion female, Rochelle, for the latter honor. Both of the female 

 championship winners were shown by W. S. Hill, of South Dakota, who 

 also succeeded in capturing a great many of the blue ribbons as well. 



THE POLLED DURHAM. 



The showing made by the Polled Durhams was one of the lightest 

 ever made at the Iowa State Fair. Three exhibitors brought out the 

 twenty-seven head. Mr. L. G. Shaver, of Kalona, Iowa, who placed the 

 animals, experienced no great difficulty in picking the winners, and in 

 many classes there was not only no competition, but only one animal. 

 A great many of the blue ribbons and both grand championships went 

 to the herd of J. H. Miller, of Peru, Indiana. Leeman Stock Farm, 

 Hoopston, 111., had junior champion heifer in Loch Dale Roanette, and 

 Achenbach Brow, of Washington, Kansas, came in for a good share of 

 the winnings. 



DAIRY CATTLE. 



Iowa is one of the most fertile of the corn-belt states; her broad, 

 black acres raise millions of bushels of corn which supply numberless 

 steers and hogs with unexcelled feed for fattening purposes. But farm- 

 ing is no longer the simple operation it was once considered; as the 

 corn-belt agriculture becomes more and more complex the dairy cow 

 will take a larger and a larger place in the economics of corn-belt farm- 

 ing. The silo, the keystone about which such a noted dairy state as 

 Wisconsin has built an enormous industry, is ever ready to convert some 

 of the corn now being fed to fat stock into succulent feed that will fill 

 the milk pail in winter and make the creamery patron grin broadly 

 when he inspects the latest check. Land is increasing in value, and 

 until the animal is found that will convert a given amount of roughage 

 into human food more economically than the cow, the white-suited 

 milkman must remain with us. 



At the Iowa State Fair this year, there was a goodly representation 

 of Iowa breeders of dairy cattle and Iowa animals. In the Holstein show 

 Iowa men won the grand championships in both male and female classes; 

 an Iowa breeder captured most of the important Guernsey blue ribbons; 

 only among the Jersey and the Brown Swiss breed was Iowa not repre- 

 sented. It is true that in many instances the Iowa breeders still have 

 a long and rocky road to traverse, but they must recognize the place of 

 the cow. This paper confidently predicts that in ten years from now 

 the Iowa breeders of pure-bred dairy cattle will rank with her breeders 

 of high-class horses, beef animals, and hogs. If Wisconsin can invade 



