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appearing in the frontispiece illustration to this 

 week's Gazette. Mr. Funkhouser's next choice was 

 Tom Clark's famous Plum, by Peerless Wilton out 

 of the great Peerless 2d. Her fine middlepiece suf- 

 ficed to carry her thus far forward in competition 

 with cows that are rather better in their shoulders. 

 Third place was assigned to Mr. Clough's rich but 

 rather roughly fleshed Cocoanut 40726, and fourth 

 as above stated to the big Canadian three-year-old. 

 Some would have placed Lady Tushingham 3d at 

 the head of the class, but when one considers the 

 fact that Miss Beau Eeal 3d is six years old and is 

 now well along in calf it must be conceded that she 

 has strong claims to the position assigned her upon 

 this occasion. A cow that some would have liked 

 to have seen recognized was Elmendorf 's Miss Wil- 

 ton that was ranked fifth in the line. She is a daugh- 

 ter of the great Beau Eeal out of the magnificent 

 and very famous Lady Wilton and is a cow of most 

 beautiful character and quality. Gudgell & Simp- 

 son furnished the sixth-best cow in Myrtis 16180, 

 now in her eighth year. Next below her came Cos- 

 grove 's short-legged, thick Wilton Le Sueuress 43rd. 

 The fact is, this was about as hard a ring to judge 

 as was the Shorthorn cow class, and, as was the case 

 in that competition, there were unplaced cows in the 

 lot which in the opinion of some good judges were 

 the equals of the more successful animals. They 

 were a grand good class and an animal had to be a 

 very ' tip-topper' to secure any position in the leet." 

 Annabel. ' ' The richness of the Hereford ex- 

 hibit, so strikingly foreshadowed in the preceding 

 ring, developed itself fully in the class for two-year- 

 old heifers, where two of the best beasts in the en- 

 tire beef cattle section contended for pride of place. 

 We refer to Clough's imp. New Year's Gift and Van- 

 Natta's Annabel. The former, a winner as a year- 



