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latter is a cow of superb breeding character with a 

 table-back, but is criticized sharply in her hind legs. ' ' 

 Dolly 5th. "Eleven head of two-year-old heifers 

 were next presented. ' The tops were found in Mr. 

 Adams' Luminous and Miranda, Funkhouser's De- 

 light, Nave's Dolly 5th, Sunny Slope's Pretty Maid 

 and Sotham's Lady Brenda. Close comparison be- 

 tween these fine heifers brought out many differ- 

 ences of opinion. The judge first drew in at the head 

 of the list Delight, but subsequently moved Mr. 

 Nave's Dolly 5th ahead. Dolly is a heifer of fine 

 scale and substance, showing great width of rib and 

 extraordinary depth of body. Although a bit heavy 

 in her horn she is very nice in her shoulders, full in 

 her neckveins, remarkably heavy in her chine, full 

 in the twist, and stands well on good short legs. 

 Dolly was sired by Java 64045, a brother to Mr. 

 VanNatta's champion steer Jack, having been sired 

 by Hengler out of Jewel Fowler 49207. Delight re- 

 ceived the red ribbon on account of her scale and 

 great strength of back, her ribs and loin being richly 

 furnished with thick flesh. Her horn is good but 

 she has a trifle too much length of face. She is a 

 daughter of Free Lance. It seemed rather hard to 

 turn down so fine a heifer as Luminous to third 

 place but it must be remembered that she has prob- 

 ably journeyed farther by land and sea during the 

 past year than any other animal at this show. She 

 wasimported fromEngland by Mr. Cross last fall and 

 bought by her Colorado owner at the Sunny Slope 

 sale in March. She was shipped to the San Luis 

 Valley and back again for this show to the Missouri 

 Eiver. She is of scarcely as blocky a type as the 

 heifers that had precedence over her in this class, 

 but will certainly grow into a great cow. Fourth 

 honors fell upon Mr. Cross' Pretty Maid, by Wild 

 Tom, a heifer carrying a tremendous lot of flesh 



