626 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



head's Venus 6th, by Sir Wilfred, was female 

 champion. 



Lars and Free Lance. — ^Illinois undoubtedly had 

 the best show of Herefords in 1895, well fitted en- 

 tries being contributed by Clark, Sotham, Funk- 

 houser, Bedhead, Todd Benjamin, Fluck and Ehnen- 

 dorf. 



Clark's Lars, now three-year-old, came into the 

 ring weighing 2,400 pounds, deep, round and level, 

 after having beaten Ancient Briton at Minneapolis, 

 and was ranked above Wilton Grove. Alger, now 

 beginning to age, had third. Ancient Briton was 

 not shown. Next to Lars the best Hereford bull on 

 the road in 1895 was clearly Free Lance, Mr. Funk- 

 houser's manager. Will Willis, had handled this bull 

 with consummate skill from a feeder's standpoint, 

 and sent him into the ring a fit pattern of a high- 

 class show bull. He had style, flesh and finish, and 

 gave Lars a ^ood fight for the championship of the 

 class. Sotham 's yearling Protection, by Corrector 

 out of Coral, a bull of exceptional promise, made a 

 satisfactoly leader in the yearlings. Hesiod 20th 

 was best calf. 



The great Lady Laurel was the blue ribbon cow, 

 now even a finer type than her illustrious dam had 

 been. Lady Daylight stood second. jBoth had calves 

 at foot. Funkhouser's Lorena here turned the ta- 

 bles on Bright Duchess. Both were extraordinary 

 two-year-olds. The yearling contest was between 

 Clark's Jessamine and Sotham 's Grace, the former 

 gaining the judicial favor. Funkhouser's Dewdrop, 



