570 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
was between Illinois and Iowa, as last year. It went after a spirited 
contest to the grand specimen of Duroc excellence, Model Chief 2d, shov/n 
by Johnson Bros. & Newkirk and C. W. and Wm. Reed. Fagan, Brown- 
ing & McCabe's Express Package, and Griffitt's The King, were a pair of 
competitors that won much favor with the ringside. The champion sow 
earned her title in a close contest, she being known as Barbara's Queen. 
Her strong competitor shown by Mr. Ashby got champion bred by ex- 
hibitor. 
The problem which faced the judge, Mr. Gentry, in the opening class 
of the Duroc shov/ was to select from an even quarter of a hundred kings 
of the breed the best seven. In choosing Model Chief II for the first place, 
a boar of substantial makeup and type closely approaching ideal was 
honored. The decision for second place was made on good grounds and 
was filled by a w^orthy competitor having the same sire. Model Chief, and 
the prestige of this famous sire of prize winners was further added to in 
the selection of a fourth-prize winner, namely, the Hockett entry. Easton 
Bros, got a third out of the contest with a v/ell-fitted, good type of boar. 
Mr. Miller's Daisy's Advance got his place on good grounds; Wonder Boy, 
a litter brother to the champion last year, got next place, and the enter- 
prising firm of Balmat & Son. 
POLAND CHINAS. 
The show of this breed scored its usual success. There was something 
like 850 head on the grounds, a deficit over last year's number of a round 
hundred head, due largely to the absence of the usual sale stuff. There 
was to be observed the unfortunately wide divergence in type with the 
plump little parlor pets on one hand and the "whoppers" on the other, 
and in between were the more conservative type that m^aintain the good 
name of the breed. The showing afforded a full share of interest and 
entertainment to the visitors, and some disappointment, as always, to 
admirers. In the hands of Mr. L. H. Roberts, of Paton, Iowa, the tying 
of the colors progressed with generally satisfactory results.- The type of 
hog chosen for honors by Mr. Roberts was the tidy, smooth kind, of 
medium size, sound and active. The sluggish hog of either sex is not 
the kind to improve the breed, which was thus emphasized in the awards 
as consistently as possible. A noticeable feature of the show was the 
frequency in v.hich the progeny of past prize winners v.on. The competi- 
tion was for much of the time four cornered — Indiana, Illinois, Missouri 
and Iowa being the principals. The champions in both cases were hotly 
contested for and in the open contest went to eastern herds, while the 
champions bred by exhibitor were gotten by Iowa breeders, which award 
closed the two days' contest. 
CHESTER WHITES' 
The display and contest for honors in this breed constituted one of the 
most interesting and instructive features of the swine show. Approximately 
450 were in the pens, about the same as last year, and the quality of the 
display was on a par if not superior to that of past exhibitions, all of 
which speaks well for the foothold which the breed is gaining in the 
