196 THE BOOK OF LIVE STOCK CHAMPIONS. 
TOPSY—A MULE. At the Kansas City American Royal Show 
the champion pair of mules was exhibited by Mr. Wm. A. Elgin, of 
Platte City, Mo. They were both magnificent animals, five years old, 
16.3 hands high, and weighing 3,200 pounds. They had won fourteen 
blue ribbons in two years. The best mule, any age, was TOPSY. 
This same TOPSY was also champion of the American Royal of 1905. 
JERSEY VENTURE-—JERSWY COW. A famous beauty of the 
Jersey breed. JHRSEY VENTURE was imported from the Island of 
Jersey in 1895 by Mr. John WW. Robbins, of Greensburg, Indiana. She 
was a very fine cow, and for two years was a constant winner at the 
airs. Among her victories was sweepstakes at the Omaha Exposition, 
in 1898. At this same Fair, her son, Venture’s Lad, also won sweep- 
stakes in his class; that is, for bulls under two years of age. 
