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lett for the red ribbon in this class. Mr. Stocking 

 sent that trophy, however, to Scarlett's Mountain 

 Dew by Washington. The same exhibitor had an 

 easy first in the yearling ring in Captain Grove, 

 first-prize calf at Peoria a year before, now devel- 

 oping into a well grown, level bull. Elmendorf's 

 Crusader, by Earl of Shadeland 30th, was second. 

 Cosgrove was strong in bull calves, winning with 

 Wildy 37th over Elmendorf's St. Louis, son of the 

 famous Lily. 



In cows it was Lily vs. Mabel again. As three- 

 year-olds they were about as evenly balanced as they 

 were in their two-year-old form. It will be remem- 

 bered that Mr. Imboden preferred Lily and John 

 Gosling went to Mabel at the Des Moines and Lin- 

 coln shows of 1890. The result of Mr. Stocking's 

 examination this year confirmed the Imboden rat- 

 stakes in calf and yearling form at Illinois and Iowa state fairs;' 

 Cherry Lass (full sister of last named,) and Wallflower with 

 Cherry Duchess, winners at Des Moines in 1892, as all were the 

 following: year at the Columbian, Cherry Lass afterward being 

 purchased and exhibited by Mr. Sotham; Wallflower and Cherry 

 Duchess, purchased by Mr. George Redhead, the last named being 

 a winner in cow class for him several successive years; Erma, 

 exhibited by Mr. Funkhouser; Rare Boy, Elvira 3d and Minnie's 

 Cherry, of Sunny Slope fame; Columbus, used several years by 

 Mr. Tom Ponting; then, as recently as the late Kansas City Here- 

 ford show, Lincoln 2d, Clodia and Miss Betsy 2d were all win- 

 ners. To go on with this list would make too long a story, or to 

 mention the many valuable breeding cows of his get scattered 

 through most of the prominent herds of the country, there being 

 very few herds which have not some of the descendants of this 

 famed sire and are proud of the ownership. 



"I cannot close this article without some brief mention of two 

 of Cherry Boy's greatest sons, the steers Kodack and Cherry 

 Brandy. The former was first in his class, in the first prize 

 Hereford herd, and also a grand sweepstakes herd at the Chicago 

 Fat Stock Show in '91. Cherry Brandy was sweepstakes of the 

 breed at the World's Fair Fat Stock Show and also at Chicago 

 the following year, and was conceded by all good judges to have 

 been one of the most perfect steers ever exhibited. When the 

 history of the noted Herefords of this decade is written, who 

 will deny one of the most prominent pages for this grand old 

 bull? Well may any breeder be proud to breed and bring out 

 two Buch animals as old Fowler and his greatest son." 



