608 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Vincent 9th was best bull calf, with dough's Actor 

 second. Clark 's\ Lars, a youngster with a future, 

 was one of the "also rans" in this company. 



Few better cow classes had been seen in the west 

 than that which was finally led by old Lily, with 

 Peerless 3d in second place. As flesh carriers they 

 were certainly great Heref ords ; but for quality one 

 could not but go in raptures over Funkhouser's 

 Petunia 3d or Clough's Jewel 3d. Clark's great two- 

 yoar-old Plum was preferred in the next class to 

 Clough's Cocoanut. In yearlings VanNatta's beau- 

 ties, Cherry Duchess and Annabel, were again first 

 and second. In calves the same herd won with Wall- 

 flower. Mr. Funkhouser gained the herd prize. 



At the Illinois shows of those days there was a 

 ' ' sweepstakes by ages ' ' open to all beef breeds. At 

 this exhibition of '92 Moberley's celebrated Short- 

 horn Young Abbotsburn won in the aged bulls, 

 Clark's Sanhedrim in the two-year-olds, VanNatta's 

 Cherry Boy 2d in yearlings, and the Makins' Vin- 

 cent 9th the bull calf championship, all at the hands 

 of that sterling Shorthorn breeder Charles B. Dus- 

 tin. In an open class for best cow with calf at foot 

 Funkhouser's Petunia 3d, by Anxiety 4th, was 

 chosen. 



By this time all interest was beginning to cen- 

 ter upon the World's Columbian Exposition at Chi- 

 cago, to be held in 1893. With that event the cur- 

 tain fell upon a decade that had witnessed a won- 

 derful development of interest in the white-faced 

 breed. 



