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sie and Pet, the calves being by Earl of Shadeland 

 41st. The award for the get of a bull fell to Mr. 

 Field on the progeny of Hero 2d, which is a son of 

 Constable's Hero, the Keguhis bull once owned at 

 Beecher. It was rather questionable as between 

 this exhibit and that made by the Earl of Shade- 

 land 41st. Mr. Clough had the ribbon for cow with 

 two of her calves on Jessie 5th, with her massive 

 son Peerless of Rockland by her side, together with 

 her young heifer by Sylvester. ' ' 



At Indianapolis on the following week the Clough 

 and Sotham herds met again, this time with Col. T. 

 S. Moberly of Eichmond, Ky., a leading Shorthorn 

 exhibitor of the day, as the arbiter of Hereford 

 fashion. Eightly or wrongly, as one pleases to take 

 it, he reversed the Columbus awards in every class 

 in which there was competition, save only that 

 for aged cows. 



In a notable breed contest here Sotham 's Harold 

 2d gained the two-year-old ribbon the only one 

 saved to the Herefords out of a nerve-racking con- 

 test all along the line with a great lot of Shorthorns 

 and Aberdeen- Angus. 



At the Illinois show of 1891 John Imboden had 

 one of the hard days of his long career in the jury 

 box especially when the cows and heifers came in 

 view. Clark, Elmendorf, Sotham, Carlyle, John 

 Steward, "Ned" Scarlett and Fowler & Bassett, 

 Long Point, 111., supplied the trouble. Fowler & 

 Bassett were showing Armour 36968, exhibited 

 twelve months before by VanNatta. He was a bull 

 showing more quality than Earl of Shadeland 30th, 



