634 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Plushcoat, by Corrector out of a daughter of Dr. 

 Grove, made a strong second. She carries a world 

 of flesh along her rib and across her loin, although 

 not quite true behind. The same stable supplied the 

 third-prize heifer Lady Chloe by old Alger, that 

 went to Texas two years ago to show the Southrons 

 how big and massive a Hereford may be made. 

 Chloe 's dam is a daughter of the celebrated Coral 

 and she is worthy of her high-class ancestry. She 

 has a refined front and is deep in her fle^h, but a bit 

 uneven in her back. 



"A month ago Sunny Slope's buxom Wild Tom 

 heifer Miranda would probably have topped the 

 yearhngs seen at this fair, but she was not herself 

 last week and failed to put up her customary show. 

 A good substitute was found, however, in her half- 

 sister (by same sire) Pretty Maid, chosen by Prof. 

 Curtiss to wear the blue. Not so blocky as Miranda, 

 she is yet a strong, well grown, firmly fleshed heifer. 

 Sotham's Lady Coral (own sister to Lady Chloe), 

 that has inherited a grand loin from her sire Alger, 

 was drawn for second and Steward & Hutcheon 

 were relegated to third with Salina (bred by Mr. 

 VanNatta, and shown by him as a calf last fall), a 

 daughter of the Sotham-bred Eureka. She is of a 

 very wide-ribbed, tidy, low-down type and was slated 

 by some of 'the boys' to top the class. She is indeed 

 a beefy one, but somewhat uneven in her back and at 

 setting on of tail. Seven heifer calves were quite 

 as hard to judge as were the cows. Three of these 

 were genuine Klondyke nuggets— rich, yellow, and 

 good as gold in the present state of Hereford trade. 

 There was Sotham's Georgina (own sister to Grace 

 and Sir Comewell), same owner's Benison (by Cor- 

 rector from the first-prize cow Benita), and Sunny 

 Slope's Diana, by Archibald 5th. The Gazette passes 



