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(21240). He gained first prize in the aged bull 

 class over Baron Booth of Lancaster, but the 

 latter was awarded by another committee the 

 male championship of the class. Rosedale* was 

 an easy winner among the aged cows; Queen 

 of Diamonds carried the three-year-old ribbon, 

 Booth's Lancaster the first for two-year-old 

 heifer and Countess of Yarborough second. In 

 yearlings the $5,500 Rosedale's Duchess was not 

 noticed, but in heifer calves the sweet-faced, 

 heavy-coated Constance of Lyndale, by 5th Duke 

 of Geneva, headed the list.f The herd prize fell 

 to Lyndale after one of the most exciting con- 

 tests ever known in American show-yards 

 Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky were defeated, 

 but Great Britain and Canada had been ran- 



*John Gibson describes Rosedale as follows: "Rosedale was one of 

 the best cows I ever saw. She was laid out on a much larger scale than 

 the cows now shown. She had an ex traordinary front that was well car- 

 ried back to her hips. She was long-, wide and deep, with great thickness 

 of flesh, evenly laid. She was just a little plain from her hips back, which 

 was about her only fault. With all her size and wealth of flesh she had no 

 coarseness or roughness, showing a fine feminine head, well carried. 

 Queen of Diamonds tied her for sweepstakes at St. Louis, but the old cow 

 rightly got it. One of the best things we showed at St. Louis in 18TO was the 

 Constance heifer. One gentleman who saw her before the show remarked 

 what a good one she was and said: 'You have trained wrong ; kept too 

 much hair on. That is all right for the Royal, but will not do for the 

 States. I replied that I never saw a Short-horn with too much hair of the 

 righ quality, and the St. Louis judges seemed to think the same." 



t Constance was shown here in the wrong class, as was afterward 

 acknowledged. There was always considerable contention between 

 Edwin Bedford and George Bedford. Mr. Edwin Bedford had bought the 

 5th Duke of Geneva, and when this heifer made the rounds, really a year- 

 ling and shown as a calf, she was awarded great honors and, of course, 

 Edwin was very proud of her. Mr. George Bedford said he need not be, 

 because she could not be a daughter of 5th Duke of Geneva, as she was too 

 young. Then, of course, Col. King either had to deny her sire or acknowl- 

 edge-as, upon investigation, he subsequently did that she was shown in 

 the wrong ring. 



