EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART IX. 389 



THE ANGUS. 



The "Doddies" have always presented a strong front at the Iowa 

 State Fair and this year was no exception to the rule. Quality, as it 

 has been in previous shows, was a conspicuous feature of the Angus 

 rings. It was hardly as strong a show as the previous two years, which 

 have been remarkable for the strength of the Angus exhibit, but one, 

 nevertheless, of which those interested in Angus could well be proud. 

 With the exception of one heard from Missouri, it was entirely an Iowa 

 show, and Iowa breeders furnished all of the first prize winners and 

 most of the other prize winners as well. The Iowa State Fair nearly 

 always brings out the new contestants for show yard honors who make 

 good. This is the case this year, as O. V. Battles, making his initial 

 show this year, made a splendid record, succeeding in carrying off a 

 number of firsts, among them first on heard and getting more firsts in 

 classes, not counting the groups, than any other one exhibitoi'. It was 

 a record of which any breeder making his initial show could well be 

 proud. 



In the bull classes there were not nearly as many entries as usual. 

 For example, there were only two aged bulls, both good ones, however. 

 Jim Delaney, Mr. Binnie's winner of last year, came out in much 

 stronger form than usual this year and is altogether a show bull of 

 pronounced merit and one who promises to make good throughout the 

 season. The two-year-old bulls, six in number, were also a 

 good lot in which Glenfoil Thickset 2d, last year's yearling winner, 

 proved the winner. He has come into the two-year-old class in splen- 

 did form and proved so strong a contestant that he was made cham- 

 pion bull of the show. There were four junior yearlings, in which Mr. 

 Battles again carried off the honors, with a Black Woodlawn calf. There 

 were likewise four entries in the junior yearling class, H. J. Hess of 

 Waterloo, Iowa, furnishing a winner in Delgarno. There were eleven 

 entries in the senior calf class in which the McHenry entry. Autocrat, 

 carried off the honors, with Silas Igo's Black King of Homedale the 

 closest kind of second and Binnie's Royal Barbara took third. There 

 were only four entries in the junior class, Binnie's Lord Elmere taking 

 the honors with Rosenfeld & Siverly's Peter Pan second. 



In the cow classes, Glenfoil Rose, showing in the strongest form 

 since a two-year-old defeated last year's champion Eileen Lass and also 

 last season's Iowa State Fair winner Snowflake of Kirkbridge 2d. The 

 ring, seven in number, was quite a strong one and will prove interest- 

 ing competition throughout the circuit. Glenfoil Queen 2d is the winner 

 in the two-year-old class. In the senior yearling heifer class. Pride 

 McHenry 53d, proved the best of the lot, while the junior winner brought 

 out one of the best animals of the show in Binnie's Queen Lass of 

 Alta 3d, a heifer which Mr. Binnie considers the best he has ever bred. 

 She is right in her prime and Prof. Kennedy considered her claims so 

 strong that she was made the grand champion female of the show, de- 

 feating Glenfoil Rose, who had friends for the honor, as well as the 

 two-year-old. Of this heifer Prof. Kennedy said that she was the best 

 heifer that he had seen anywhere this year; that he had visited the 



