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line carried too much fat to show at his best. A very nervous aggressive 

 bull, with strong masculine front, great style, strong back, big middle 

 and silky quality came to the front among the half-dozen two-year-olds, 

 and eventually he won the senior championship. The five yearling bulls 

 furnished the grand champion in Ibsen's Glory, a bull of great length of 

 rib, large well placed rudimentaries, fine quality, and withal a genuine 

 aristocrat. The second prize went to a bull of much the same general 

 pattern. The bull calves in both classes were very promising and gave 

 the judge considerable work in balancing their claims for preference. 



Eleven aged cows included a number of outstanding merit but no trash. 

 Mayflower's Glory walked to the front daintily, her great udder swinging 

 high behind and far to the front. When she returned after milking, its 

 flexible character and regular form again pleased the judge. She is not 

 a large cow but is shaped for maximum production, with her long wide 

 pelvis and great abdominal capacity suited to the handling ,of extensive 

 nutritive processes. In beauty and refinement of type she was equally 

 worthy, and finally she was crowned the best female of the breed. A 

 three-year-old of balanced show type from face to udder stood at the top 

 in her class, followed by a more upstanding one scarcely so. well shaped 

 in fore udder. The third cow shows great producing ability but is of 

 more delicate stamp than those above her. The two-year-olds, twelve in 

 number, were distinguished by their good milk-making equipment. A 

 comparatively easy victory was scored by Harbinger's Lass, a heifer of 

 strong constitution, level back, long wide rump and excellent udder, with 

 a beautiful feminine countenance. Blanco's Pride is smaller but very' 

 attracively made, and the third in line looks scarcely so large of middle 

 although having a good udder. The seventeen yearling heifers, nearly all 

 of them in mlik, gave a convincing demonstration of the precocity and 

 utility of Jersey females. The winner is a neat shapely heifer, well fur- 

 nished in the essentials for milk. Another having a beautiful head, great 

 chest, and a general stamp of breediness stood second. The third heifer 

 is deeper and more level. The best of the heifers was located in the calf 

 class, from which the junior champion Warder's Fair One was picked. 

 She is a quality calf in every respect, with a very deep middle and re- 

 markable mammary development both fore and aft. 



HOLSTEIN-FEIESIANS. 



Holsteins fell considerably short of the numbers of former years, and 

 were the weakest feature of the section in this particular, but some very 

 excellent bulls and females were brought out. Yearlings and calves were 

 most numerous. Prof. H. H. Kildee. Ames, la., made the awards in a 

 painstaking and satisfactory manner, sticking to the utility type but 

 seeking refinement and character with it. 



Only one aged bull was shown, but he fills the eye acceptably as a type. 

 Rather more fiesh is carried by the two-year-old Buffalo Skylark Ames, 

 but his quality is remarkable. The most competition among the bulls 

 was in the class of calves where the honor finally went to a very growthy 

 level bold fellow of pronounced dairy type. The two-year-old winner is 

 sire of this calf. The chief honors for bulls finally went to the aged bull. 



