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beautiful type, smoothly turned and full of quality. Both of the hull calf 

 classes were large and required much study in their rating. 



There were nine aged cows of such uniform stamp as seldom is dis- 

 played. The good Inez, seven years old, is in excellent condition. Her 

 stylish bearing, sweet head, level top, deep middle, wide hindquarters and 

 capacious glove-like udder made her an easy winner. The next three are 

 each over seven years old, and each exhibits unmistakable beef and dairy 

 characteristics. The heifers and calves made excellent classes, in which 

 quality, depth of middle and extent of udder were given careful consider- 

 ation by the judge, although he insisted on meat enough to show good 

 feeding capacity. The grand champion heifer was picked from the junior 

 yearlings. 



THE FAT steers/ 



The three principal beef breeds were represented by pure-bred and 

 grade steers of a uniformly high average quality, although no sensational 

 ones were uncovered. Chas. Bellows judged tlie Shorthorns, Robert Mousel 

 the Herefords and E. T. Davis the Angus, and the three constituted a 

 committee to award the premier honors. The real contest for the grand 

 championship among the single steers narrowed down to the two-year-old 

 red and white Shorthorn Benefactor, brought out in excellent bloom by 

 Tomson Bros., and the grade Angus two-year-old King of Selby, shown 

 by Escher & Ryan. Both are a little on the leg, but the Shorthorn is 

 wider and more evenly and thickly covered with flesh, although handling 

 scarcely so firm as the black. So close was the competition that some 

 good judges at the ringside considered other steers in the show fully 

 as good as either of these, but the decision was well received. The 

 smoothness and uniformity of the Hereford steers won in the group 

 championship. 



THE DAIRY CATTLE. 



JEESEYS. 



The dainty breed of butter-makers was splendidly represented by 

 cattle of rich breeding and acceptable type. The increased strength ot 

 this breed year by year bespeaks the favor with which the cattle are 

 regarded by cornbelt dairymen. Minnesota and Iowa furnished most 

 of the entries, with Nebraska and Wisconsin each represented by a herd. 

 A notably uniform high character and fidelity to the show-ring standard 

 of excellence stamped the exhibit all through. Prof. H. H. Kildee, Ames 

 la., made the rating with much care and intelligence and accomplished a 

 most difficult task in a very cerditable manner. 



A sample of the keen rivalry which distinguished the show was fur- 

 nished in the first class when three excellent bulls lined up before the 

 judge. Beauvoire's King is a dark bull, rather larger than the other two, 

 alert, with real dairy conformation, capacity for feed, good quality and 

 large development of rudimentarics. Combination Golden Prince is a 

 deep-bodied bull with rather more refinement of type. The third in 



