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sent scurrying about to get together the executive committee to enlarge 
the prize list to take in ten or a dozen more worthy ones. Here two types 
invited and in selecting the large more mature sort, with greater scale, 
the judge had followers, as did also those who would have taken the block- 
ier sort as a starting point. The white Countess is finely grown and 
beautifully fashioned, and the flesh is very smoothly disposed until the 
hind quarters are reached. There is a sweetness about her that will win 
almost any judge. The same general stamp is found in Diamond Anoka, 
another white, perhaps not just so even in her lines as the one set above 
her, but quite ripe. Outside favor ran some little toward the blocky roan 
Butterfly Queen and Flynn Farm Missie, another of the same build and 
color of hair, for first and second on the list, but the judge had a better 
furnished body in the two whites he preferred. The sweet white nugget 
Rose of Elmendorf was much liked. Among the fourteen juniors some 
beautiful roans were sent up to the top of the class, and Susan Cumberland 
was esteemed the best of them, while her companion bcottish Sempstress 
fell back before the Isabelle, which presented a highly satisfactory back 
and hind juarters. 
THE HEREFOEDS. 
There was very little public information which would lead to the ex- 
pectation of such an array of "white-faces" at this fair. Exhibitors of 
this day are not much given to sounding a trumpet before them. They 
like to keep their best ones, and sometimes even the intention of showing, 
under cover as much as possible, and spring the exhibit as a surprise. 
There was material enough for a surprise at Des Moines. Last year nine 
exhibitors contributed to an interesting show. This time twice that num- 
ber furnished one of the most stubbornly contested battles of recent years. 
Some times in the past strength lay rather in numbers than character of 
the exhibits, but barring possibly one company the breed maintained its 
standing very creditably throughout the list. The experienced fair-goer 
has learned to be prepared for sensations among the Herefords, and he is 
rarely disappointed in this regard. Certainly plenty of entries at this 
time reflected great credit on the breed and some of them sustained well 
the reputation of the "white-faces" for presenting animals of the sensa- 
tional stamp. Prof. H. W. Mumford, Urbana, 111., assigned honors, and 
on the entry of the female classes he had as consulting judge, E. B. 
Mitchel. 
Nine aged bulls, and no "mean" ones among them, made an impressive 
display. There was only one extreme of type, the "nuggety" Prime Lad 
9th, as the big old-fashioned coarse type was notably absent. The bull 
just named and Bonnie Brae 3d are old-time rivals, and at the outset this 
season Prime Lad 9th assumes the lead. He is not so large as the other, 
but he is stuffed about as tight in his hide and carries it more smoothly. 
It w^ould be difficult to get these bulls to carry any more weight. Weston 
Anxiety has the feeder, not himself, to blame for failure to reach higher 
up. Barring a tendency toward roughness of shoulder, this bull is about 
as satisfactory in his type, character and form as any feeder ever started 
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