566 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



coming female champion and the Shorthorn group 

 of which she was a member receiving first honors in 

 a one-sided herd contest. 



New Alignment in 1889. Mr. Earl's whirlwind 

 campaign of 1888 had certainly sufficed to advertise 

 sufficiently the claims of Shadeland as a nursery of 

 prize-winning Herefords. Fowler & VanNatta, too, 

 had won such stores of ribbons that it seemed as if 

 they could well afford to remain under cover for a 

 time, so far as showing was concerned. Neither of 

 these herds was on the circuit of 1889. Some new 

 blood came forward, however, more especially west 

 of the river. The recession of the tide following 

 the "hurrah days" of the big importations had 

 forced a number of concerns to ' ' shorten sail, ' ' and 

 others to go out of business entirely. The Iowa 

 Hereford Cattle Co. had over-extended itself, and 

 the show herd was sold to go to California where 

 it was successfully exhibited. The Early Dawn peo- 

 ple had transferred their interests to others. New 

 men were taking up the cudgels ; conspicuous among 

 them at this date in the west was C. H. Elmendorf 

 of Kearney, Neb. The Makin Bros., Florence, 

 Kans., were also now coming to the front. E. E. 

 Day of Weeping Water, Neb., also moved up into 

 the limelight. 



At Des Moines Elmendorf, Day, the Makins, the 

 Cosgrove Co. of Minnesota, and Alex. Moffitt & Son 

 of Mechanicsville, la., made the Hereford presenta- 

 tion before William Stocking of Rochelle, 111., as 

 judge. In the aged bulls it was easy to send Makin 's 



