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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 Witson & 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 
