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This was the A. E. Cook one thousand five hundred dollar trophy prize, a 

 picture of which is given on another page. 



The award for the best sample of ten ears entered went to Mr. Asa 

 Turner, of Maxwell, Iowa. He won the four hundred and fifty dollar 

 Whiting trophy, given by Mr. W. C. Whiting, of Whiting, Iowa. There 

 were one hundred and sixteen entries in this class. 



The Wallaces' Farmer two hundred and forty dollar trophy corn cup 

 was the grand sweepstakes prize for best club exhibit of fifty ears. This 

 was aarded to the Emerson Corn Club of Emerson, Iowa. 



The corn exhibit feature of the corn school deserves encouragement, 

 and it is to be hoped that the Corn Growers' Association will receive such 

 hearty support in this matter that they can afford to make this feature 

 a permanent one. The premium feature was inaugurated two years ago 

 by the Iowa Homestead giving one hundred dollars in cash premiums for 

 a corn show. This gift they repeated this year. The Grain Dealers' 

 Association of Iowa contributed several hundred dollars to the premium 

 list, and individuals throughout the State have given from five to fifty dol- 

 lars "to the good of the order," and deserve the appreciation and grati- 

 tude of the corn growers of the State. 



LIVE STOCK JUDGING. 



The work in the four classes of live stock, sheep, horses, cattle and 

 hogs, was taken up in the order named, three days being given to the 

 study of each. In the advanced classes the selection of good breeding 

 stock and the questions pertaining thereto, were taken up, while in the 

 beginning classes the unit types of each class of animals were studied 

 with vigorous score card practice. The college has some very good 

 specimens of all classes of stock studied, but Professors Curtiss, Kennedy 

 and Rutherford resolved to supplement these by the very best obtainable. 



Through the courtesy of Dunham, Fletcher & Co., of Wayne, 111., the 

 classes in live stock were given a chance to study some international 

 prize winning Percheron draft horses and roadsters. A handsome coal 

 black Percheron — "Pink"^ — who has made the sweepstakes champion in 

 his class for America at the International in 1903, gave an almost ideal 

 object lesson in scoring. The study of horses showed that the type of 

 draft horses that commands the highest price today is a deep-bodied, 

 broad, close-coupled massive horse, with deep strong loin and hind quar- 

 ters; he should be deep and wide in the chest to insure a rugged con- 

 stitution; legs well set, with clean compact bone, sloping pasterns; feet 

 large, round, wide at the heels, and of fair depth; weight one thousand 

 six hundred pounds or over. 



Every farmer should attempt to produce horses of some definite 

 type, such as the market demands. The greatest need in horse breeding 

 today is some definite plan of breeding. Draft horses are the horses for 

 the average farmer to raise. 



While studying beef cattle. Prof. W. A. McHenry loaned the college 

 some excellent sires, dams and yearlings from his fine herd of prize win- 

 ning Angus. Good representative animals in other breeds helped to fix 

 breed characteristics and definitely bring out beef type and dairy type. 

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