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choice which many failed to approve was made. 

 Mr. Higgins' Miss Wilton, a rare thick Beau Eeal 

 heifer out of the celebrated Lady Wilton, named 

 for second place, would have made a more popular 

 winnner, Elmendorf's Hypatia, by Peerless Wil- 

 ton, and a March calf, was third. Critics thought 

 that the ignoring of Scarlett's good Washington 

 heifer, Fair Maiden 2d, ripe, tidy, and smooth, but 

 at some disadvantage as to age, was a palpable 

 error. She let down a trifle in her back, but was all 

 quality. In heifer calves the Cosgrove people du- 

 plicated their remarkable record in two-year-olds, 

 drawing the blue on Wiltona 31st and the red on Wil- 

 tona 33d, Elmendorf following with a daughter of 

 Earl of Shadeland 30th. 



For the best bull in the class Earl of Shadeland 

 30th and the yearling Captain Grove were the chief 

 competitors, and the big bull won. Lily was champ- 

 ion cow. 



At the Lincoln state fair of 1891 James A. Funk- 

 houser, Plattsburg, Mo., who was soon to become 

 prominent as a breeder and exhibitor and who had 

 already been elected President of the Hereford as- 

 sociation, was called as judge. The herds of Hig- 

 gins, Day and Elmendorf were before him, rein- 

 forced by an exhibit made by John S. Carlyle of 

 Chicago. 



John S. Caxlyle. — ^It is not often that Scotchmen 

 become enamored of the "white faces," but Car- 

 lyle was for years one of their greatest admirers. 

 He was a grocer by trade, but made the acquaint- 



