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THE BOOK OF LIVE STOCK CHAMPIONS. 



TOPSY- A MTLE. At the Kansas City 

 the champion paii of mules was exhibited by 

 Platte City, Mo. They were both magnificent 

 16.3 hands high, and weighing 3,200 pounds, 

 blue ribbons in two years. The best mule, 



\ nil I I :- I . ' > al Show 

 Mr. \Vm. A. Elgin, of 

 animals, fiye years old. 

 They had won fourteen 

 any age, was TOPSY. 



This same TOPSY was also champion of the American Royal of 1905. 



JERSEY VENTURE— JERSEY COW. A famous beauty of the 

 Jersey breed. JERSEY VENTURE was imported from the Island of 

 Jersey in 1895 by Mr. John E. Robbins, of Greensburg, Indiana. She 

 was a very fine cow, and for two years was a constant Avinner at the 

 Fairs. Among her victories was sweepstakes at the Omaha lOxposition, 

 in 1898. At this same Fair, her son. Venture's Lad, also won sweep- 

 gtakes in his class; that is, for bulls uu(ier two years of age. 



