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2d defeated Fortune and Sir Evelyn. In Minnesota 

 Fowler & VanNatta and the Cosgrove Co. were the 

 only contestants, Fowler beating Wild Eyes in the 

 bull section but Cosgrove taking a majority of the 

 prizes on females, including first in the cow class 

 with Bonnyface, a 1,975-pound daughter of Rudolph. 

 In Michigan Merrill & Fifield, Sotham & Stick- 

 neys and Hon. James M. Turner showed under F. H. 

 Johnson of South Bend as judge. Tom Wilton and 

 Clarence Grove, both owned by Merrill & Fifield, 

 were first and second in senior bulls. Sotham & 

 Stickneys were first in two-year-olds with Stock- 

 field's Wilton by Hall's Hotspur. Merrill & Fifield 

 won on cows with Lovely 2d and Greenhorn 5th. 



1886, when she was first at the Illinois State Fair at Chicago over 

 hot competition. 



"The following is a list of her produce and their winnings: Empress 

 2d 12771 was one of the four yearling heifers shown by me at the 

 Illinois State Fair in 1884 that took first prize in young herd over all 

 breeds. She is now owned by H. H. Clough, Elyria, O., and was 

 shown by him this year at the Loraine County Fair, taking first prize 

 as cow in strong competition ; she was also in the herd that took the 

 grand sweepstakes over all breeds. Her next calf was Peerless Wil- 

 ton 12774, which I am now using in my herd on Anxiety 3d 4466 

 heifers, and for which I refused, when he was eleven months old, 

 $1,500. He was the sire of that remarkable sixteen-mpnth-old bull 

 that took second premium for yearlings at the last Illinois State Fair 

 against much older and larger animals. Her next calf, Peerless 2d 

 16240, took first prize as a yearling at the Illinois State Fair 

 in 1886, and in 1887 at the Illinois State Fair was first as two-year- 

 old, sweepstakes for the best female of any age, and sweepstakes over 

 all breeds in the two-year-old competition; at St. Louis in 1887 she 

 was first as two-year-old in her class and sweepstakes for best female 

 of any age, also one of five in sweepstakes herd. Her next calf, 

 Peerless 3d 26664, took second as calf at the Illinois State Fair in 

 1886, first as yearling at the Illinois State Fair in 1887, and was one 

 of sweepstakes young herd at St. Louis this year. Her last calf (but 

 not least) is a bull named Anxiety Wilton, which bids fair to equal 

 any of her other produce. 



"At the time of her death Peerless was within three weeks of drop- 

 ping a heifer calf, which would have made her sixth calf. She was 

 seven years old last May. With her show career and the calves she 

 produced, I would class her as one of the most remarkable cows that 

 ever lived. The cause of her death was an abscess on her kidney, from 

 which she had been suffering most of the summer; although she suf- 

 fered so much, she retained her beautiful form until the day of her 

 death." 



