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old show bull Caractacus that had meantime been 

 sold for export to South America. 



In aged cows Elmendorf 's Etiquette, by Anxiety 

 6th out of Flirt by Kodney, wore the blue. In 

 three-year-olds Peerless 3d beat Polly Pink, and in 

 two-year-olds Clark won again, this time with Hor- 

 atia 3d by Anxiety 3d. There was no denying the 

 blue among the yearlings to the same exhibitor, the 

 prize falling to Cora Belle, a heifer that had been 

 bred by Mr. Clark's neighbor, McEldowney, from 

 Peerless Wilton and Crystal Belle by Cedric. Just 

 by way of "rubbing in" his skill at the game Clark 

 walked off with the second prize on Lottie by 

 Anxiety 3d. May Fowler was unplaced. When on 

 top of all this Clark's Horatia 4th headed the heifer 

 calves, his cup was full and running over. The 

 Hereford association specials for best bull and best 

 female were sent by the judgment of Mr. Gosling 

 to Earl of Shadeland 30th and Peerless 3d. 



Cherry Boy Champion. The persistency with 

 which Fowler & VanNatta, Adams Earl and Thomas- 

 Clark followed the great shows of the period under 

 review was one of the most interesting phases of 

 this era in Hereford progress in the United States. 

 Fowler & VanNatta banked specially on the prac- 

 tical every-day character of the descendants of Treg- 

 rehan. With ample bone, massive girth, heavy quar- 

 ters and general show of constitution, the VanNatta 

 cattle appealed always to those who had in mind 

 the exacting requirements of the farm, feedlot and 

 the open ranges of the west, The Shadeland stock 



