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classes Judge Ryden had no easy task and while the blue fell to the 

 Anoka Farm on Sultan Stamp, yet this honor was strenuously con- 

 tested by Count Avon, owned by Rookwood Farm. With the elimination 

 of outside exhibits the Iowa classes alone made an unusually strong 

 showing and the fact that seventeen exhibitors were present is the best 

 indication that this feature of the show is growing in popularity. Mr. 

 A. J. Ryden, of Abingdon, 111., did the judging and his work was done 

 most creditably indeed. 



IOWA SHORT-HORN BREEDERS 



The members of the Iowa Short-horn Breeders' Association met at the 

 Iowa State Fair Grounds on the evening of August 28th and effected an 

 organization of that association. Thirty-two breeders were present. The 

 principal business of the meeting was the election of officers, which re- 

 sulted as follows: President, D. Tietjen, Bellevue, Iowa; Vice-President, 

 Wm. Herkelmann, Elwood, Iowa; Secretary and Treasurer, E. B. Thomas, 

 Audubon, Iowa; Directors — C. A. Saunders, Manilla, Iowa; George H. 

 Burge, Mt. Vernon, Iowa; Ralph Watt, Miles, Iowa; Howard Vaughn, 

 Marion, Iowa; W. A. Wickersham, Melbourne, Iowa. It is probable that 

 the association will hold a winter meeting at Ames some time in Jan- 

 uary, when matters of general interest to Short-horn breeders will be 

 taken up. The Iowa Short-horn Breeders' Association was at one time 

 a powerful organization and effective in the advancement of the interests 

 of the breed. It is to be hoped that with the promising future now 

 ahead of the cattle business, it will regain its old-time vigor and useful- 

 ness. 



HEREFORDS 



The White Faces held down the heavy end of the cattle department of 

 the Iowa State Fair, outranking any other breed in numbers and mak- 

 ing a new record for individual excellence of entries in most of the 

 clashes. The line up in the aged bull class set the pace and while the 

 Cudahy entry, Fairfax 16th, carried off the blue he did it with so small 

 a margin as to make the honor all the greater. In selecting Fairfax 

 16th, Judge Van Natta indicated that he was going to emphasize animals 

 of good scale combined with smoothness and heavy fleshing qualities. 

 These he found in a remarkable degree in this noted son of the great 

 Perfection Fairfax. In Prince Perfection, the leader in the two-year-old 

 bull class, the judge found another bull of good size combined with 

 remarkable substance. The top of the senior calf classes. Repeater 7th, 

 shown by 0. Harris, was a sensation for a youngster and went through to 

 the junior championship without serious trouble. In the cow classes 

 the Cudahy entries captured the best ribbons, Scottish Lassie winning 

 first in the aged cows and the grand championship prize on females. In 

 many of the classes there was such uniformity and so much remarkable 

 Hereford character that the closest kind of discrimination was required 

 in the placing of the ribbons. The Hereford exhibit indicated that the 

 office of the Hereford association is working in harmony with breeders in 



