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gant heifer calf at foot by Protection. Annette is 

 scarcely as breedy a type as Benita or Maude, but 

 on the beef proposition she is a hard nut to crack. 

 Just a little inclined to roll, she is yet compactly 

 fashioned and so full of flesh that she cannot be de- 

 nied position. Maude is a Hereford cow such as 

 breeders often dream about and now and then pro- 

 duce. She is rather soft in her handling and some- 

 what gaudy about the tail-root, but is marvelous in 

 her smoothness everywhere else, extraordinary in 

 her shoulders and heart, strong in her back, has fine 

 width, great depth, good length, low short neat legs, 

 and a good head carried on a thin breeding-cow's 

 neck. She has also been a prolific breeder. 



4 'Beau Real's Maid did what it has been thought 

 she was capable of accomplishing all summer. In 

 fact she did more. She was not only the blue ribbon 

 two-year-old, but later on was crowned queen of the 

 white-faced females two years old or over in compe- 

 tition with the grand cows just described. Such rec- 

 ognition is sufficient to give Sunny Slope place at 

 once high in the list of nurseries of top-notch Here- 

 fords. A sweeter or more symmetrical white-faced 

 maiden has not been thrown by America's breeding 

 herds in recent years. Evenly good from horns to 

 hoofs, criticism becomes virtually disarmed as her 

 rare character develops under close examination. 

 Neat in her head and horn and beautifully filled in her 

 bosom, she shows a pair of elegantly modeled shoul- 

 ders, a well rounded chine, wide thick-meated ribs, 

 captivating wealth of loin, and good quarters. In 

 making up her showyard raiment the feeder did not 

 forget his Shakespeare. At any rate the advice of 

 Polonius to Laertes had been heeded. 'Rich not 

 gaudy,' in her covering, she brings to the Hereford 

 camp this fall as handsome a body of beef as con- 

 noisseur could covet. Mr. Sotham's good Lady 



