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spect. She is a smooth, low-set, broad heifer, but with lots of scale and 
quality. She was made grand champion cow without much trouble. Both 
the yearling heifer classes were large, strong classes, and in both Cargill 
& McMillan won. In the heifer calf classes there was also strong competi- 
tion. Van Natta won the senior class. In the junior class Logan won 
first on a trifle small but wonderfully smooth, low-set heifer. When it 
came to the exhibitor's herd class there was a tight place between Cargill 
& McMillan and Van Natta. In Van Natta's herd were the grand champion 
bull and the first prize senior heifer calf. In Cargill & McMillan's herd 
were the second prize aged bull, the grand champion cow, and two other 
first prize cows. Van Natta won. Besides Cargill & McMillan and Van 
Natta other prominent breeders were Mousel Bros., of Nebraska; Cornish 
& Patton, of Missouri; and the Heath Stock Farm, of Illinois. Iowa ex- 
hibitors were G. W. Way & Son, Cyrus Tow, and the Cook's Brookmont 
Farm. Professor Mumford, of Illinois, made the awards. 
THE ANGUS. 
Angus entries were about the same in number as last year, but the 
herds were a little closer together if anything and competition was 
keen in all the classes, with few outstanding winners. With the exception 
of the Illinois herd of C. J. Off, it was entirely an Iowa exhibit, but as 
Iowa has been furnishing the bulk of the prize winners for the past six 
or seven years at all the big shows, this means the strongest kind of a 
show. Nearly every year brings out a new strong Iowa contender for 
the principal honors, and this year is no exception to the rule, the Rosen- 
gift Stock Farm bringing out a splendidly conditioned lot of entries and 
proving hard competition in all classes. Angus judges nearly always have 
a hard task, as there is little to choose between, quite often, betwixt the 
foot of the class and the top, and in many of the classes this was the 
case this year, the entries being very close together and hard to decide 
between E. T. Davis, of Iowa City, the well known breeder, placed all the 
awards save in the senior bull calf and junior heifer calf classes. Profes- 
sor Kinzer, of the Kansas Agricultural College, acting on these classes at 
Mr. Davis' request, he having bred one or two of the animals in the ring 
and for that reason preferring to have another pass on the class in ques- 
tion. Mr. Davis is a good judge of cattle and did a good job of judging 
in the various classes. Angus cattle are so close together, however, that 
it will not be at all surprising if some of the future shows tell a slightly 
different story, as there is room for difference of opinion as between 
the many choice entries on exhibit. It is not likely that the herds will 
come together again as a whole until the Kansas City show, as part go 
to Minnesota and part to Nebraska from the Iowa fair. 
The aged bull class this year is stronger than a year ago. Glenfoil 
Thickest 2d, graduating from the two-year-old class of last year, heads 
the class, while the Rosengift entry, Vala's Rosegay, stood second, and 
Jim Delaney, last year's winner in the same class, third. Mr. Battles was 
very strong in the bull classes all the way through, furnishing the two- 
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