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class of live stock that happened to be before the students, treating un- 

 soundness and physiology in detail. Another interesting feature wa3 

 the demonstrations of John Gosling, the noted Kansas City butcher, 

 on the different cuts and their values of the slaughtered carcasses of 

 some of the animals which had appeared before the various classes. 

 The earnestness that John Gosling took in his own work and the sin- 

 cerity of his fatherly ways won him well-merited favorable applause. 



The corn judging and lectures on the different methods of handling 

 this cereal successfully were full of interest. Truly in Iowa, corn is 

 king. There were over 300 exhibitors showing at least 1,000 ears of 

 corn. Prof. P. G. Holden was assisted by A. D. Shamel of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture in awarding the ribbons for the premiums 

 of the Iowa Corn Growers' Association. At the auction sale of the first 

 and second prize winning exhibits of corn the single ear of Reid's Yellow 



Champion Pen of Berkshire Barrows at 1906 International. Owned by Iowa State 

 College. Used in class room work during annual Short Course. 



Dent, grown and shown by D. L. Pascal of DeWitt, and the ten ears 

 grown and belonging to Bennet Bros, of Ames, were pronounced by 

 Prof. Holden and Mr. Shamel the best two exhibits ever raised in the 

 United States. The single ear brought the phenomenal price of $150 

 at the auction, being bought by its grower, Mr. Pascal, at this price. 

 This is a world's record, the highest priced ear previous to this selling 

 for $11.00. The Bennett ten ears of the same variety were bought for 

 $31.00 by their original owners, who presented them to the college for 

 use as models. It is interesting to note that Mr. Pascal won the Cook 

 trophy in 1904 and supplied Asa Turner with the seed corn that pro- 

 duced the second best ear in that year in the same contest. 



