812 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Sugar Hill Marshall, the Iowa champion in 1909, and Marshall of the 

 Mound, senior champion at the last International, met in the class for 

 aged bulls and the latter carried away the most coveted ribbon. Both 

 are well patterned bulls, but Marshall of the Mound is lower and more 

 blocky and compact. Mr. Flynn found him clearly entitled to the senior 

 and grand championships. Lord Baron, presented by Mr. Marti, in the 

 two-year-old ring, seems of a very likely sort. Five useful aged cows 

 were shown, but Buttonwood Jenny Lind 4th was an easy favorite. A 

 daughter of Marshall of the Mound, Lady Marshall by name, headed 

 the two-year-olds and defeated a senior yearling, Bell Boy's Cleopatra, for 

 the grand championship. Both are extremely promising heifers and cer- 

 tainly should be heard from again. Taken all in all, the Polled Durham 

 exhibit was one of unusual merit. The breeders of these cattle are cer- 

 tainly making great strides. Their ambitions to have a breed well fixed 

 in type and possessing many of the same excellencies sought for in the 

 Short-horns are fast being realized. 



GAIXOWAYS. 



For a number of successive seasons the same three Galloway breeders 

 have appeared at Des Moines with their herds of "Shaggy backs." These 

 men are loyal to the breed of tlheir choice and year by year bring out 

 strings of cattle which do full justice to it. Perhaps no breed on the 

 grounds was represented by so uniformly high-class entries, there being 

 practically no "tail enders" in the entire exhibit. For the second time 

 "running" Mr. E. T. Davis, of Iowa City, Iowa, judged the classes. His 

 work was done with painstaking care and his ratings were favorably 

 received on all sides. Captain 4th of Tarbreoch was no less a sensation 

 in the classes this season than upon former occasions. He is coming 

 five and certainly has a great future ahead of him. This season he was 

 favored witih competition upon each appearance, but his position was 

 scarcely in doubt at any time. A grand good cow, Floss 2d, lined up 

 in the aged group and the judge called for her again when distributing 

 the championship ribbons. In fact, Mr. Davis only found one female in 

 the entire exhibit which he really liked better. Ladylike, a junior year- 

 ling, was easily the choicest thing among the cows and heifers. This 

 daughter of Captain 4th of Tarbreoch would be hard to fault, for she 

 seems to embody about all that a Galloway man could wish for in a 

 single package. She is low down, thick, smooth and in every particular 

 quite typical of the breed. 



RED POLLS. 



The Iowa breeders left it to an exhibitor from Nebraska and another 

 from South Dakota to give the Red Polls representation at their state 

 fair. The two herds put up a very creditable display, but the entries 

 would all have shown up to better advantage had the classes been better 

 filled and the contest more spirited. Mr. James W. Martin, America's 

 foremost Red Polled cattle judge, distributed the premiums. His work 

 is always of such a nature as to leave no opportunity for criticism. Upon 

 none have weighed more heavily the responsibility of advancing the breed 



