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brought his farm to a higher stage of fertility than it possessed 

 at his purchase, but he has achieved most successful results in 

 show and sale ring with his Shorthorns and Berkshires. As a 

 young calf in the herd of Carpenter & Ross (106), he selected 

 Count Avon, a son of Avondale, and at the International of 

 1912 as a two-year-old, this bull achieved the grand champion- 

 ship. His Berkshires have won prizes at the three greatest swine 

 shows in America, the Iowa State Fair, the National Swine 

 Show, and the International Exposition. At the college his 

 efforts have been equally successful. Four times the grand 

 championship at the International on steers has gone to Ames, 

 and draft horses, swine and sheep have been prominent winners, 

 the college having had grand champion barrow three times. The 

 college bred the champion gelding of the 1917 and 1918 Inter- 

 nationals shown by Wilson & Co. 



Dean Curtiss has been a prominent factor in Iowa agricul- 

 ture as a director of the State Board of Agriculture and super- 

 intendent of the horse department at the Iowa State Fair. He 

 is a life member of the International Livestock Association and 

 from the beginning has been connected as a director, official and 

 judge, now being its president. He has been President of the 

 American Berkshire Association, and of the American Shrop- 

 shire Association, director of the Percheron Society of America 

 and a director and member of the executive committee of the 

 National Society of Livestock Record Associations. He was a 

 member of the horse breeding and meat investigation committee 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture and special inves- 

 tigator for Great Britain and Mexico. He has been con- 

 sulting editor of the Agricultural Digest and staff correspondent 

 of practically all the leading farm journals, notably The Breeder's 

 Gazette and Wallace's Farmer. 



Dean Curtiss is one of the foremost judges of livestock of all 

 breeds and classes in America. He has performed satisfactorily 



