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Ben. Dale had a walk-over in two-year-olds, and 

 was subsequently made champion bull. Clark was 

 strong this year, as always, in heifers of his own 

 production, and gained the female championship of 

 the Hoosier state with the great yearling Everest, 

 daughter of Lars. At the Ohio State Fair Murray 

 Boocock of Virginia came forward with a herd 

 headed by his $3,000 purchase at the Cross sale, 

 imp. Salisbury, and won most of the prizes. 



Dale vs. Sir Bredwell. At the Illinois State 

 Fair of '98 Mr. Nave 's deep-fleshed Dale had gradu- 

 ated into the three-year-old class, and met Sotham's 

 Sir Bredwell, with Imboden on the bench. These 

 bulls were of totally different types. Dale was broad, 

 short-necked, thick and deep as compact a block 

 of beef as any breed ever throws quite lacking in 

 style and gayety of carriage. With a butcher-feeder 

 as arbitrator it was no surprise that he here found 

 favor. Sir Bredwell had scale, stretch, imposing 

 presence and quality. As a breeding proposition 

 most critics would have preferred Sir Bredwell at 

 the time, but Dale certainly lived to vindicate his 

 own prepotency and to confound all critics. 



Two In-bred Toppers: Everest and Benison. 

 The feature of the female classes was the struggle 

 between Everest and Benison. This is the story as 

 it was written at the time : 



' ' Tom Clark never bred a better one than Everest, 

 and those who have followed our western shows for 

 the past twenty years will understand what such a 

 statement means. But Sotham never produced a 



