514 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
year-old prize winner, also the senior yearling and the junior bull calf, 
the Rosengift Stock Farm furnishing the senior bull calf winner and A. C. 
Binnie the junior yearling. 
The female classes were good throughout, especially close competition 
coming in the yearling and heifer calf classes, Binnie, Battles, Hess, Mc- 
Henry, and Rosengift herds each furnishing winners in these classes. It 
was nip and tuck all down the line, and it need occasion no surprise if 
the awards be changed about in some of the future shows. We do not 
anticipate that there will be any large reversal of Iowa decisions, but the 
competition is so close between the many excellent entries in the Angus 
classes that good judges are liable and have license to differ in their 
opinion relative to the respective merits of the various entries, as the 
cattle seem closer together than ever this year. 
THE GALLOWAYS. 
Three herds comprised the Galloway exhibit this year, those of J. E. 
Bales & Son, Stockport, Iowa; Straub Bros., Avoca, Nebraska; and C. 
S. Hechner, of Princeton, Illinois. It was not as strong in numbers as 
the Galloway show has usually been at the Iowa fair, but the quality 
was excellent and some especially desirable specimens of the breed were 
exhibited. The show in this regard ranked well with former years. 
EED POLLED, 
All records for state fair exhibits were broken by the Red Polled 
breeders this year. Not only was the showing of this dual purpose breed 
the strongest in numbers that it has ever been, but it was also excellent 
in quality, there being as many as twenty-two entries in the ring in 
some of the classes, with the quality good throughout. The splendid show- 
ifig of the breed was a matter of common remark, as the cattle were 
generally in excellent condition and we congratulate the Red Polled breed- 
ers on the splendid record that they have set for the Iowa State Fair 
this year It is seldom that the breed has equaled the state fair show 
this year at any of the world's expositions, and the breeders and friends 
of the breed have a right to be proud of the showing made. J. W. Martin, 
of Richland Center, Wisconsin, one of the best known Red Polled breeders, 
made the awards, and it was one of the most satisfactory jobs of judging 
that has been done at an Iowa State Fair on the Red Polled cattle for 
some time. Mr. Martin paid due attention to the dual qualities of the 
breed, and his work gave general satisfaction. Perhaps the two best 
classes of the show were those of aged cows and senior yearling heifers, 
both these classes being unusually strong in numbers and quality. 
THE POLLED DUEHAMS. 
The showing of this breed was rather stronger than usual, five herds 
contending for the honors, three from Iowa, one from Wisconsin, and 
one from Indiana. The quality of the exhibit was excellent and the 
competition was close and interesting. With the exception of the breeder's 
young herd, which only had two entries, the classes were well filled and 
the exhibit as a whole was one which would do credit to the breed, one 
which, by the way, is growing very rapidly in popularity. Messrs. Shaver 
