640 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



sensation was sprung by Harness & Graves of Indi- 

 ana. At New York State Fair they had the bull 

 championship on Columbus, by Earl of Shadeland 

 41st, and at Indianapolis Mr. I. M. Forbes, the well 

 known Shorthorn breeder of Henry, 111., acting as 

 judge under the Governor of the state, Hon. Claude 

 Matthews, as superintendent, had placed this mas- 

 sive bull ahead of Wild Tom. In the yearling ring 

 these same exhibitors presented a son of Columbus 

 named Dale that not only won first in his class, but 

 the male championship as well. He was the phe- 

 nomenal youngster of the year, and only at the com- 

 mencement of a career equalled by few American- 

 bred cattle of his day and generation. 



Tom Clark's Jessamine easily led the cows at this 

 Hoosier show, but in two-year-olds his grand heifer 

 Juno gave way by Mr. Forbes' direction to Mr. 

 Cross' l)ig, smooth, broadtopped Beau Eeal's Maid. 

 Jessamine won the female championship and Mr. 

 Clark's brave array of the get of Peerless Wilton 

 drew the much coveted get-of-sire award. 



John Lewis and His Troubles at Spring- 

 fieldAt the Illinois State Fair of 1897 " Uncle 

 John" Lewis, Shadeland 's " grand old man" tied 

 the ribbons on one of the best Hereford shows of the 

 period of which we write. Clark, Cross, Funk- 

 houser, and Sotham furnished competition that sup- 

 plied the "thrills." Here is our comment on Free 

 Lance and Wild Tom, the aged bull antagonists, 

 as written at the time : 



"In the senior bull class it was Free Lance 51626 



