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BREEDING CATTLE 

 SHORT-HORNS 



Five states were represented in the Short-horn classes at the Iowa 

 State Fair, although seventeen of the twenty-one exhibits were from the 

 Hawkeye state. Numerically some of the classes failed to reach the 

 former record, but there were animals of the very best type in all classes. 

 In the aged bull class Missouri carried off the blue on Diamond Goods, a 



JUNIOR CHrtiuPiuN iUVvA SHUKTH-JKN BULL 

 Iowa State Fair, 1912 



magnificent type of modern Short-horn shown by Bellows Bros., of Mary- 

 ville. The character, substance and fleshing qualities of Diamond Goods 

 led him through to grand championship honors in the bull classes. Mr. 

 George J. Sayer, of McHenry, 111., had a clear lead in the cow classes, wim 

 ning first in the aged cow class, first in the two-year-old heifer class, first 

 on yearling heifer and first on junior heifer. Fair Start 2d, Mr. Sayer's 

 aged cow, carried off grand championship honors and many could be found 

 at the ring side who predicted that under fair treatment she would 

 not be defeated on the entire show circuit. In the two-year-old bull 



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