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classification was repeated. It drew out a tiioroughly creditable ex- 

 hibit. A. C. Wood & Sons, Pendleton, Indiana; Shaver & Deuker, Kaloua, 

 Iowa; P. F. Failor and the Ardmore Stock Farm, Holstein, Iowa, were 

 the exhibitors. In -Roan Hero, champion of the show. Shaver & Deuker 

 have one of the most acceptable bulls of the breed. He is low-set, even- 

 lined, smooth and compact, well fleshed and in flash bloom. Royal 

 Flora, from the same herd, is of much the same popular pattern. She 

 is smooth and well balanced, an outstanding show-yard animal. Vic- 

 toria Lady, a red and white yearling, fills the eye. She is a beauty. 

 Level-topped, deep, low-down and showing a wonderful spread of forerib 

 and breadth of loin, neatly molded in front and about the head, this 

 heifer is a very high type. E. T. Davis of Iowa City, Iowa, made the 

 awards. 



THE RED POLLS. 



The exhibit of Red Polls was the largest ever seen at a State fair. 

 Moreover, it was equally good in quality. The breed has never assembled 

 in one show-yard so many high class animals as were adjudicated on 

 this occasion by Prof. Wayne Dinsmore of the Iowa Agricultural College. 

 With the exception of the two-year-old bull class there was edged com- 

 petition in each ring, especially in the female classes. While there was 

 more or less difference in type as idealized by the various exhibitors 

 the dual-purpose kind predominated, and there were several exceptionally 

 good ones. Saucy, for example, the champion cow, is about as good an 

 illustration of the double decker sort as we have seen. She has the 

 scale of a beef cow and the udder of a dairy cow. Irwin, the champion 

 bull, also is closely patterned after the beef-and-milk beast. It would 

 be difficult to find a better pair than this. They afford a valuable 

 object lesson for breeders. Many of the cattle were not properly 

 conditioned. If they had been not a few would have been placed 

 higher in the list. Prof. Dinsmore, who has judged this breed for 

 several years in succession at Des Moines and at the International did a 

 good piece of discriminating work in rating the entries. Exhibitors 

 are thus listed: G. W. Coleman, Webster City, Iowa; Geo. B. Buck 

 of Illinois, A. P. Arp, B. A. Samuelson and F. .1. Clouss of Iowa and 

 W. S. Hill of South Dakota. 



THE SHOW OF STEERS. 



The exhibit of steers attracted some attention as a number of 

 bullocks were forward that will have to be reckoned with at the Inter- 

 national. It was largely a black hue that affairs assumed in the grades 

 and crosses, as all the first prizes fell to the Angus, and also the grand 

 championship of the show. This was won by W. J. Miller's Dutch 

 Lad, the first prize two-year-old among the Aberdeen Angus. The 

 grand champion herd prize fell to Cargill & McMillan's Herefords. 

 Dutch Lad is decidedly on the show steer order and if he feeds kindly 

 until December he will be quite up to International standards. Some 

 wonders of thickness and smoothness are included in the Cargdll & Mc- 

 Millan exhibit of Herefords. 



