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in the lead over Battles' St. Blaise, which won as a junior yearling In 

 1910. The senior yearling bulls went out with Protine, McHenry's bull, 

 which was the winner in the 1910 show as a senior calf, In the lead. He 

 has developed very thick thighs, has good handling qualities and has 

 the usual doddle blockiness and body depth. Black Pridewood is wide 

 and quite strong in the back, with good girth. Arncy's Ebony of A. is 

 another survival of last year's show, standing sixth. Binnie's Peter Pan 

 of Alta, a thickly covered, wide and ruggedly made bull, secured the blue 

 as a junior yearling over Black King of Rosemere, shown by Battles. 

 Peter Pan has a lot of individuality and beat out a good bull, the pair 

 standing just as they did at Des Moines a year ago as junior calves. A 

 breedy animal won the senior calf ribbon over Proud Thickset that has 

 two pretty good ends. He is a blocky fellow. Anderson & Sons stepped 

 to the front with a very promising junior calf, a pretty good "all round" 

 animal. A smaller number of aged females entered the ring than a year 

 ago, when eight were shown, Barbara McHenry 24th bringing another 

 first to the McHenry firm. She is roomy, is fairly well finished, trim for 

 as capacious an animal and, with all, carries a deep rib and is near the 

 ground. The two-year-old heifers brought out a tight class, with Bar- 

 bara Woodson, first last year as a senior yearling, leading on splendid 

 condition, thick covering and a beautiful Angus type. Pride of Alta 

 12th led the junior yearlings in 1910. Eileen of Alta and Entangle of 

 Arndale were in the prize money a year ago as senior and junior year- 

 lings, respectively. Blackbird McHenry 84th was placed up in the senior 

 yearling heifers, as she was a senior calf. She is especially good in 

 fore, rib and loin. Queen of Rosemere has low-down Angus type, but 

 didn't appear to have the refinement in the head that Angus breeders 

 like. She stood second to Blackbird McHenry as a senior calf. McHenry 

 was again first in the j^unior yearling heifers on Blackcap McHenry 88th 

 and in senior heifer calves with Pride McHenry 97th. Kloman won senior 

 champion bull for Binnie and fought out the grand chamm'nnship with 

 McHenry Protine, that was the junior champion. Protine is a good 

 handler, but Kloman carries a more prime finish a little more smoothly. 

 Barbara Woodson was senior champion female and Blackcap McHenry 

 84th the junior champion. Miller's two year old took the purple away 

 from the younger cow. Some interesting contests for those who were 

 familiar with the sires and dams developed when their get were shown. 



POLLED DURHAMS. 



Polled Durhams have made great progress during recent years. With 

 pure mulleys fcr sires and proper combinations with the best blood 

 the Short-horn breed, it will not be long until Polled Durham in general 

 excellence, beef type and feeding characteristics will be pushing the 

 parent breed for honors. Even this year some of the better of the ex- 

 hibits in this ring would not suffer by comparison with leaders among 

 the Short-horns. Mr. J. H. Miller, of Peru, Ind., had a large, well-fitted 

 herd entered and carried away a majority of the prizes. His winning 

 aged bull is an excellent specimen, deeply covered, deep bodied bull with 

 great girth, altogether a great individual. The second one is not so 



