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horn, what breed will thrive best and make the 

 greatest improvement generally." 



At Crawfordsville the week following the excite- 

 ment was again intense, and when the gates closed 

 it was found that while some re-distribution of hon- 

 ors had been made the break was so even as to dem- 

 onstrate that it was a case of Greek versus Greek. 

 Potts had first in the big herd competition, Sodow- 

 sky second and Culbertson third. In young herds 

 Earl & Stuart were first, Fowler & VanNatta second 

 and Parmelee third. Tregrehan was champion bull 

 and Jessie Hopewell champion female. 



And so the battle raged that year with new con- 

 verts clearly gained for the " white faces," and with 

 Shorthorn breeders turning more and more towards 

 the Scotch blood that was bearing so well the brunt 

 of this unprecedented attack upon their position. 



" Rudolph's Year. " The event of the year 1883 

 was the appearance of Eudolph, probably the great- 

 est son of The Grove 3d, flashed upon the American 

 public at Des Moines. G. S. Burleigh had his 

 imp. Anxiety 2d on the western circuit, then three 

 years old and shown at a weight of 2,535 pounds. 

 Gudgell & Simpson had a strong herd' of Aberdeen- 

 Angus on the road, headed by old Knight of St. Pat- 

 rick, so that the open beef-herd championship was 

 hotly contested. Potts and Eobert Miller won first 

 and second respectively, and the Wyoming Here- 

 fords were third. 



W. C. McGavock, who had started in with Here- 



