664 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Slope's Beau Beal's Maid, and Nave's fine Anxiety- 

 Monarch cow Atoka, of Shadeland breeding. The big 

 Maud Muller, that won first for Mr. Nave at Spring- 

 field, was properly set back to fourth place. Dew- 

 drop and the Maid gave Mr. Makin a lot of trouble. 

 The superb front of the Cross cow was hard to get 

 over. She has weakened a bit at the rump since 

 calving and might be a bit heavier at the thigh, but 

 her grandly spread and deeply covered ribs and 

 beautiful shoulders have rarely been excelled in 

 western showyards, Dewdrop is of rather a blockier 

 pattern and was shown with plenty of hair. She has 

 the Hesiod beauty of head and horn and is extreme- 

 ly short on the leg, with broad ribs deeply laden, in 

 fact, one of the greatest flesh-carriers of any breed in 

 the cattle department. She wants a little between 

 the hips and tail-root, but conformed so closely to 

 the judge's apparent ideal as respects breadth and 

 depth without height that he at length awarded her 

 premier position. Sentiment about the arena was 

 well divided as between this royal pair. Mr Nave's 

 Atoka, that received third honors, is a cow of beau- 

 tiful lines, in fact almost a perfect parallelogram, 

 her long, level and well finished carcass being car- 

 ried close to the ground on neat bone. Like all of 

 Mr. Nave 's entries she is shown with a great wealth 

 of hair and is in admirable bloom. She has a fine 

 face, excellent shoulders, good finish at the tail, al- 

 though wanting a little behind the hips. She shows 

 rather too much i leather' under the jaws for an 

 ideal show cow, but is so neat, level and symmetrical 

 and is shown in such beautiful condition that she is 

 a prime favorite wherever she goes and had friends 

 here for the blue. She certainly made as strong a 

 third-prize cow as ever held that position in this 

 country. Her stable companion, the massive Maud 

 Muller, was fourth and Sotham's Benita fifth. The 



