PROSPERITY REGAINED 915 



Distinction by Disturber. Repeater repeated his 

 Kansas City winning in the two-year-old bull class, 

 as did also Gay Lad 6th in senior yearlings. When 

 it came to the championships Mr. Harris had the 

 rare honor of receiving the senior and grand cham- 

 pionships on Repeater and the junior championship 

 on Gay Lad 6th. John Letham, representing Mr. 

 Brock, whose herd was now established at Lake 

 Geneva, Wis., here made a phenomenal record for 

 these extraordinary International competitions by 

 winning first in junior yearling bulls on Discounter, 

 first in junior yearling heifers on Disturber's Lassie 

 3d, first in senior heifer calves on Miss Annabel by 

 Distinction, and first in junior heifer calves on Lady 

 Viola by Disturber, besides the young herd prize. 

 Mr. McCray again scored with Lady Fairfax 4th 

 and won the get-of-sire competition with his Perfec- 

 tion Fairfaxes. Harris won the aged herd prize, 

 and Scottish Lassie was junior and grand cham- 

 pion female. 



Improvement Continues. There were 1,203 head 

 of pedigree Herefords put through the sale rings of 

 1911 at an average price of $160. This was an aver- 

 age advance of $16 per head over a like number 

 during 1910, and indicated that the tide was still 

 running slowly towards better things. That this 

 was the case was all the more plain because of the 

 fact that the offerings of the year were not notably 

 attractive. 



The ball was opened at a combination sale at Den- 

 ver, Colo., on the 19th of January, when 50 head of 



