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"Fowler 12099, Messrs. Fowler & VanNatta's cel- 

 ebrated son of old Tregrehan 6203, -made friends 

 from the beginning; and the encomiums he received 

 at the hands of both the public and members of the 

 awarding committee were the spontaneous tribute 

 paid by unbiased men to an animal that possesses 

 merit of an uncommon kind. Fowler will be re- 

 membered by many of our readers as one of the sen- 

 sational two-year-olds of the Illinois State Fair of 

 1885, and at that time was regarded by some good 

 judges as the best Hereford bull of his age in the 

 west. He carried 1,850 pounds at Chicago last Sep- 

 tember, if we remember aright, and while a slight 

 indisposition robbed him of some of his flesh some 

 weeks ago, he has been on the up-grade since, and 

 now lifts the beam at about 2,300 pounds. When it 

 is remembered that he is but a trifle past three years 

 old, and is not in the highest flesh, it will be seen 

 that he is of great scale. He has good length, good 

 rib, good back and loin, covers well on nearly all his 

 points and carries the meat low down on his car- 

 cass. He has marvelous width in front (as has his 

 famous sire), giving great room for heart and lungs, 

 and altogether shows much genuine Hereford char- 

 acter. His dam, Princess 1990, was by Seventy-Six 

 1093, son of that great old sire imp. Sir Richard 2d 

 4984. 



"Mr. C. M. Culbertson's Bowdoin 8579 was one of 

 Fowler's competitors at Chicago last year, and 

 stood next to Sergeant Major in that interesting 

 competition. He came forward at Shelbyville in his 

 three-year-old form as showy as ever, and with 

 twelve months' development adding to the charms 

 that rendered him a successful bull in 1885. He has 

 done extremely well since returned to Newman from 

 Michigan, and with his great smoothness and style 



