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Princess 7th was well deserving of first place. Of the twenty-two senior 
heifers, Van Natta's Miss Duchess 3d had the smoothness and evenness 
to capture the blue. Leona Lass, owned by the same firm, was a close 
competitor, though hardly as good in width of hind quarter. 
The sensation of the Hereford show was the exhibitors' herds. There 
were nine of these, with five animals to the herd, making forty-five ani- 
mals in the ring. It was a line-up of typy whitefaces to arouse admira- 
tion in the heart of every onlooker. Mitchell and Mumford went at the 
difficult task of placing the ribbons, and after over an hour of comparison 
placed the blue ribbon on the Van Natta herd. The decision between this 
herd and that of Cargill & Price was so close as to be almost a toss up. 
There Avere some splendid individuals in the latter herd, but it did not 
show quite the uniformity throughout that distinguished the Van Natta 
lineup. 
ABERDEEN ANGUS. 
With the opening of the fall show circuit the old-time rivalry between 
the herds of A. C. Binnie, of Alta, lov/a, and 0. V. Battles, of Maquoketa, 
Iowa, was renewed. This year the presence of a third serious competitor, 
Rosengift Stock Farm, added considerable zest to the placing of the 
awards. So far Battles seems to have a little the best of U, with five 
firsts, exhibitor's herd and both championships to his credit. One show 
does not make a circuit, however, and if last year's awards are any cri- 
terion many of the placings will be reversed before the season is over. 
Rosengift Stock Farm is in the ring for business, as was shown by the 
two firsts and several seconds which they carried away. They will be 
heard from later. Battles' Glenfoil Thickset 2d, the bull that made a 
clean sweep in the two-year-old class last year, lived up to his reputation 
by taking first in the aged bull class and later the championship. He is 
a wonderful bull, and one that will be exceedingly hard to beat. He had 
a close second in Vala's Rosegay, the head of the Rosengift Stock Farm 
herd, however. Jim Delaney, last year's winner, was forced to be con- 
tent with third honors. Battles' Golden Gleam, the bull that captured 
the blue in his class at the International last fall, led the two-year old 
class by a safe margin. He has superb quality and is remarkably uniform. 
In the senior yearling class Battles again claimed a first with Oakville 
Quiet Lad, a young bull remarkable for his depth and symmetry. Rosen- 
gift's Brookside Erin and Hess' Autocrat, the bulls that stood in second 
and third places, were of much the same type as Quiet Lad, and could 
hardly be called inferior. The placing of these three bulls was close, and 
they could be easily shifted. Binnie had an easy first in the junior yearl- 
ing class with Cotto Mere, a bull of outstanding scale and smoothness. 
In the senior bull calf class Rosengift Stock Farm brought out an easy 
winner in Prince of Quality, a bull that combines growthiness with a 
remarkable degree of symmetry and quality. Aside from first place, the 
awards in this class were extremely close. Battles' Thickset Blackbird 
and Hess's Ebony's Quality fought hard for first place in the junior calf 
class, and were away ahead of the other entries in the class. 
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