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antagonism, or seeming antagonism, between the show ring and the milk 

 pail. The Jersey is a breed in which production may be combined with 

 beauty and grace; she is a cow with an undisputed place in the economics 

 of dairying, and every effort should be made to prevent its displacement 

 by breeds less exactly fitted for its peculiar place. 



Nelle Fabyan, of Geneva, Illinois, won the senior and grand champion- 

 ships on her aged bull. Ocean Blue, a trim, good-sized individual. In 

 the junior competition the judge discounted Chaffee's Dairymaid's Com- 

 bination because of a slightly buff nose in favor of Dering's calf, Rose's 

 Fairy Boy. Ocean Blue's value as a sire was demonstrated, his get 

 winning first in the get of sire contest. Last year Smith and Roberts, 

 of Beatrice, Nebraska, and Ed Bruins, of Fairwater, Wisconsin, won 

 most of the blue ribbons. 



IIOLSTEINS. 



A splendid showing of Holstein cattle was made before Judge W. J. 

 Gillett, of Rosendale, Wis., especially satisfactory from the Iowa point of 

 view in that Iowa men carried off the premier honors. Although some 

 of last year's best exhibitors were absent, their places were taken by 

 new men. Perhaps the most outstanding group, as well as the most 

 difficult one to place, consisted of eighteen of as likely senior heifers as 

 one could wish. C. A. Nelson, of Waverly, Iowa, finally captured the 

 blue in this group. The same breeder also led the senior and grand 

 champion cow into the ring, his Chloe Artis Jewell emerging triumphant 

 after some exceedingly close competition. In fact, the exhibit of aged 

 cows was of unusually good quality, the three leaders being of out- 

 standing merit. J. C. Copestake, of Ames, Iowa, a newcomer in the show 

 business and who entered his herd at Des Moines with great reluctance, 

 won the grand championship on his senior bull, Sir Jessie Fobes Piebe 

 Burke, an individual of unusually strong parts. 



AYHSIIIRES. 



Mr. Adam Seitz, Waukesha, Wis., had entered his usual herd of twenty 

 head of this beautiful Scottish show cattle, but he wasn't allowed to 

 carry away all the ribbons without a contest, as was the case last year. 

 This fall William Galloway entered fifteen Ayrshires, and while his herd 

 has not been established long enough to enable him to compete on equal 

 terms with the veteran Wisconsin breeder, he was able to carry off some 

 of the good ribbons. Seitz's bull, Bargenoch Gay Cavalier, one of the 

 best in the country, repeated his record of former years by overcoming 

 all competition, but the Waukesha man was disappointed in several of 

 his importations, the cows not living up to their Island sliow records. 



IJKOWN SWISS. 



The Brown Swiss are getting better every year. Prof. H. G. Van Pelt, 

 who placed the classes, was well pleased with the showing, discovering 

 some excellent individuals and some exceedingly close competition. As 

 might be expected, however, of a breed which many once considered dual 

 purpose, its greatest weakness is coarseness. But as the Brown Swiss 

 men gradually eliminate some of the outstanding weakness of this rugged 



