FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV. 335 



THE HEREFORDS. 



The Hereford exhibit was excellent, although hardly up to the high 

 standard of last year. Several strong herds which have hitherto helped 

 to make things interesting were absent. It was pleasing to notice that 

 Iowa exhibitors were more prominent than usual. There was excellent 

 quality among the five aged bulls, with Cudahy's Fairfax 16th, last 

 year's grand champion, an outstanding winner. The two-year-olds were 

 not unusual, either in quality or numbers. Among the senior yearlings, 

 Harris' Repeater 7th, a wonderfully blocky and low set calf stood first. 

 Among the eight junior yearlings was very close competition, and it 

 was especially pleasing to the Iowa ringside contingent when Tow se- 

 cured first with Fairview Prince, a most excellent calf, broad, compact, 

 and filling well over the shoulders. The senior calves were the best 

 class of the Hereford exhibit. The thirteen entries were uniformly 

 good, but the Curtice calf, Donald Perfect, had most finish and was a 

 little the widest. It was no surprise that Fairfax 1 6th, last year's 

 grand champion bull, should again become senior champion. He is a 

 bull of great bulk but carries his weight smoothly. It was a surprise 

 when Harris' senior yearling, after being made junior champion, was 

 given the grand championship over the old bull. 



The heifer calf classes presented some beauties of uniform excellence. 

 Professor Kinzer worked hard picking out the winners, and while his 

 judgment may in some cases be reversed at future fairs, he gave good 

 satisfaction on the' whole. In the get of sire and produce of dam classes, 

 McCray and Harris divided the best prizes on stuff carrying Perfection 

 Fairfax, Princess and Repeater blood. 



GALLOWAYS. 



The exhibitors were Capital View Ranch, Silver Lake, Kansas; S. M. 

 Croft & Sons, Bluff City, Kansas; C. S. Hechtner, Chariton, Iowa. 



POLLED DURHAMS. 



Indiana, Illinois and Kansas sent exhibits in the Polled Durham 

 classes, the exhibitors being J. H. Miller, of Peru, Indiana; Leemon 

 Stock Farm, Hoopeston, Illinois; and Auchenbach Bros., Washington, 

 Kansas. In the aged bull class Miller had the only entry; in the two- 

 year-old bull class Auchenbach Bros, had things their own way, and 

 in the senior yearling bull class, Leemon. 



RED POLLS. 



As in the case of the Polled Durhams, there were no Iowa exhibitors 

 of Red Polls. Three herds were shown by Hausler Bros., Holbrook, 

 Nebraska; W. S. Hill, Alexandria, South Dakota; and J. W. Larrabee, 

 Earlville, Illinois. In some of the classes the competition was quite 

 keen, and the premiums were quite well distributed between the three. 

 In the aged bull class Hausler Bros, took first, Larrabee second. Hill 

 third; two-year-old bull, Larrabee had the only entry^ senior yearling 

 bull. Hill had the only entry. 



