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Shorthorns were given premier position and the 

 Kansas "white faces" were placed second. 



The Illinois show of 1887 was held at Olney. The 

 Herefords were fittingly presented by the two vet- 

 eran showmen Clark and VanNatta, J. 0. Curry, 

 George W. Henry, Tom Ponting and others. John 

 Imboden was judge, and in aged bulls properly 

 placed Fowler first. At full maturity he was a 

 bull of the real old sturdy Herefordshire stamp. 

 Masculine, massive, rugged and active, with a com- 

 manding presence, rare depth and spread of rib, 

 and big well filled quarters, he was an outstanding 

 specimen of the type that made the conquest of the 

 range by the Herefords a certainty. Mr. Henry 's 

 Caractacus, thick-fleshed and compactly fashioned 

 but rather light in color, was second. Ponting 's 

 Defiance, by Culbertson's imp. Lord Wilton out of 

 an Anxiety dam, one of the good bulls of his day, 

 was much admired upon this occasion. Curry's 

 Horace-Eegulus bull Harold was first in two-year- 

 old, and the same owner's Archibald A. was first 

 in yearlings. 



The cows were headed by Clark's Flossie, seen 

 here with calf at foot and still showing the tradi- 

 tional Anxiety smoothness and wealth of good flesh. 

 Fowler & VanNatta 's eleven-year-old Truth 2d stood 

 next, and Pon ting's low-legged broad-topped "little 

 one," Gertrude 2d, granddaughter of Gay Lass and 

 dam of Defiance and other good ones, was third. The 

 VanNatta herd had both first and second in three- 

 year-olds with Miss Fowler, by Fowler, and Peer- 



