EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAK BOOK— PART IX. 395 



SADDLERS AND DRIVEES. 



The standard bred trotters were judged by W. A. Dobson. The class 

 was as good as in former years, but did not attract the attention that 

 the wallv, trot and canter classes did, nor the high school horses. The 

 high school horses furnished a fine show and were greatly appreciated 

 by the crowds. The new class of American carriage horses were entered 

 this year and showed some very commendable animals. 



OTHER CLASSES. 



The heavy and light harness classes were well filled and there was 

 also a splendid showing of Shetland ponies, Geo. Heyl, of Illinois, and 

 Cassidy & Thompson of Iowa being the principal exhibitors in this 

 division. Harness horses were also in evidence, this department of the 

 show stowing improvement and attracting much attention. 



S. F. Williams and H. L. Orcutt were the only exhibitors of mules, 

 Williams winning on heavy mules and Orcutt on the light. McLay Bros, 

 won first on single mare or gelding in the draft horse classes. 



THE HOG SHOW. 



The Iowa hog show seems to be bounded only by the limitations of 

 space. Each year exhibitors are turned away for lack of pens. This 

 year, with a mammoth new building built especially to accommodate the 

 largest hog show in the world, the story is the same. Even before the 

 building was near completed many were turned away because they 

 could not be accommodated with pens. The new building contains 1,154 

 pens, 7x7 feet all under one roof. If the exhibitors brought mostly 

 young pigs the capacity would be around 3,500 head, but this year there 

 were more mature hogs on exhibition than usual, and considering that 

 some who secured pens did not exhibit, the number in the pens was 

 about the same as last year, which was in the neighborhood of 3,000. 

 Of course much of this was sale stuff, and not all of it by any means 

 of a character that should be admitted to valuable space at the state 

 fair. Sales as far as learned were fairly good on the better class of 

 stuff and a number of breeders paid fancy prices for stock of exceptional 

 merit. The common stuff, especially that lacking size and bone to meet 

 the farmer's requirements, was slow sale. 



There were large exhibits, as usual, of Duroc- Jerseys and Poland- 

 Chinas, and about the usual number of Chester Whites and Berkshires. 

 In the bacon breeds there was a good showing of Tamworth, and also 

 of the large Yorkshires, and a small exhibit of Hampshires. The char- 

 acter of the exhibits throughout was better than usual. 



The hog show was doubly pleasing this year, both to the exhibitor and 

 to the visitor, because of the splendid new building in which the hogs 

 were quartered and the big judging pavilion in which the prizes were 

 awarded. These are the newest, largest and undoubtedly the best build- 

 ings of the kind in existence. These improvements have been needed for 

 some time and are very much appreciated by the swine breeders in par- 

 ticular. At the annual meeting of the Iowa Swine Breeders, held on the 



