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yearlings it looked for a time as if Elmendorf Farm did not need on 

 this occasion the heifer Anoka Gloster 2d which it had endeavored to 

 buy, as that farm's Sinnissippi Rose 2d stood at the top of the line an • 

 ominously long time, but finally the proper rating was accorded. De- 

 lightful has ample scale and very attractive eveness. The junior year- 

 lings succeeded in going the seniors one better in numbers, and Senator 

 Wornall was not content without the two leading positions in this 

 comely company. Of the beautiful light roans Rose O'Day and Maid 

 Marian the latter was rather generally preferred for pride of place, but 

 the judicial talent decreed otherwise, and as it was all in the family there 

 was little to say. Sweet Duchess of Gloster has plenty of depth but 

 lacks width through the heart. No great violence would have been done 

 the equities if she and Ramsden Flower had been further down on the 

 list. Numerically and perhaps in quality the senior yearlings capped 

 the climax No less than thirty-seven asked position, among them 

 several "dumplings" just over the age limit that were seriously handi- 

 capped among the older ones. Mr. Harding declares Sultan's Athene is 

 the best calf he ever exhibited, and an argument is scarcely possible on 

 that proposition. She is about the acme of youthful feminine Short- 

 horn excellence. The home rating and the judicial allotment between 

 Poppy Girl and Demure (the latter the calf shown at the heels of the 

 first prize cow) do not agree, but it is all in the Tomson family, and 

 these beautiful calves were separated on the list only by the precocious 

 little Lady Rosita, which is just within the limits in age, and one the 

 eye lingers on in delight. The juniors were an admirable company, and 

 it was nip and tuck between Rosetta of Grassland and Princess Royal 

 with plenty of argument in favor of the foi'uier named "dumpling," 

 which is strongly reminiscent of the famous Dewdrop; but the taller 

 calf finally headed the list. 



TUB HEREFOBDS. 



A comparatively small but altogether excellent exhibit of the "white- 

 faces" came from the herds of the following named exhibitors: Cargill 

 & Price, Lacrosse, Wis.; W. S. Van Natta & Son, Fowler, Ind., G. W. 

 Way & Son, New Sharon, Iowa; James E. Logan, Kansas City, Mo.; Dale 

 & Wright, of Iowa; J. J. Early of Missouri; Ben Broughton and Dorr & 

 Redhead of Iowa. The awards were placed by Prof. Andrew Boss, of 

 the Minnesota Agricultural College, St. Anthony's Park. 



THE ABERDEEN-ANGUS. 



It could not be claimed that the male section of this breed was up 

 to its standard at this fair, although it developed a clinking good two- 

 year-old as the grand champion, and numbered among the youngsters 

 some promising material. In the female classes, after the aged cows 

 were passed, the tone took on its accustomed quality, and some decidedly 

 attractive presentations of "doddie" flesh and bloom were in evidence. 

 Prof. W. J. Kennedy, of Ames, rated the contestants. Jim Delaney, the 

 aged bull, is in capital form this year with a lot of flesh smoothly carried, 

 but still wanting the balance of heft in the hind parts. The two-year-old 

 Glenfoil Thickset 2d lacks little of satisfying a high ideal in Angus bulls. 



