598 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



but the old hero of so many contests was still im- 

 pressive enough to win. Probably no greater con- 

 trast could readily be imagined than that presented 

 by these two antagonists in the matter of color. 

 Garfield's son was a very dark red, too dark in fact, 

 while Armour was a real golden yellow. In two- 

 year-olds Sotham's Harold 2d forged to the front 

 over Clark's Phil Armour by Anxiety 3d. Scar- 

 lett's square-ended mellow-handling low-flanked 

 Captain Grove was the winner among the year- 

 lings. In bull calves John Steward (Fowler & Van- 

 Natta 's former herd manager of whom we shall hear 

 more as our story progresses) took first with a 

 youngster, his own personal property, by Cherry 

 Boy out of a Star Grove dam, that proved too much 

 for Sotham's Corrector to handle. 



The cow class, a memorable one, was headed by 

 Lily, her chief rivals being Peerless 2d and her 

 six-year-old daughter Peerless 3d and Sotham's 

 "big little one," Miss Archibald A. Peerless 3d 

 was placed second. The heifer classes were excep- 

 tionally fine, and as indicating the type and quality 

 being produced at that date by home breeders we 

 quote again from "The Breeder's Gazette": 



"In two-year-olds Imboden rather crossed the 

 judgment of a majority of the Hereford-breeding 

 contingent present by sending Fowler & Bassett's 

 big Victoria Belle to the head of the list. She is a 

 grand-topped heifer of tremendous scale, but plain 

 at both ends. John S. Carlyle's Princess Louise 

 was slated for second money, leaving Clark's Hora- 

 tia 4th, Carlyle's Eletta, -and Elmendorf's Tottie 



