The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-01-30

MAKING UP FOR THE SHOW RING.
freely manifested for the beautiful
roam three-year-old Dorothea H., which
was left down in third position. She
was the only one fit to the minute in
the ring. The others had dipped too
often in the meal tub OF else had been
too long divorced from it. She stands
a trife from the ground, and the judge
Is notably fond OF the low legged
ones and hence got her wrongly in
mind. Much of the 1lassiveness in
heres in his first CHOICE, the roam
Woodhill May Blossom II, but there
is lack Of finish at both ends and a
somewhat sagging top line against her.
One of the most interesting exhibits
of the company was the red Marchion-
ess ~, the Van Horne COW that was
at the trent in the Winnipeg show.
Here is such perfection of Shorthorn
type that, soft as her flesh is, we
should not have hesitated at ranking
her next to the top.
1t need not be recalled that comment
is current to the effect that the fat
show bulls are mo account" that they
cannot sire calves and are SO burned
OUT that they are useless and Of no
value as stock getters. Not a few
people Of limited observation and cross
eyed reasoning are wont to descant
eloquently to this effect. Among the
fourteen climbing good heifer calves in
this exhibit five out of the six places
Gall Of them but the fifth place. fell to
calves sired by that very fat bull
Princeps w., many times champion.
At the Big Buckeye.
'"The Ohio idea is one of education
to teach, to show, to illustrate by
graphic example. At Columbus there
Is this year, as is usual, graphic ex-
ample Of how best to do the best
things" Thus neatly Joseph e. Wing
sums up in the Breeders Gazette, Chi
cago, his impression of the big Bakk.
eye fair, but he adds, among other Re.
marks:
The defect in the management Of
this fair was one so familiar that men
have forgotten to see it any more, the
failure to mark or catalogue animals
so that any intelligent study of them
could be made. Ohio is no worse sim
ner in this respect than some other
states. The writer, wandering In the
horse barn searching for a particular
animal, overheard this from a man
who, with his wife, was seeking to
learn something: 81 can't tell anything
about them. There is no one around
to tell a man anything" Turning to
the writer, he asked, II want to see
the Belgians and to compare them
with the Percherons, and 1 wish to
find one Percheron especially"
1t is nearly as bad in the cattle
barns. If not catalogues, why not sim
pie, plain, but good sized cards an
nouncing names of owners, name Of
animal, breed and age? Would NOT
more men go to fairs If they could
really study the animals with any
comfort or understanding?
In Iowa.
The Shorth0rn show at the Iowa
state fair has been declared to .besfha
best ever seen On American sou. Pro
fessor Curtiss, dean Of the Iowa state
college, is quoted by an exchange as
saying that it probably has neverIbeen
surpassed even in England, the home
Of the Shorthorns. Exhibitors from
Kansas, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Missou-
ri, Ohio and Iowa warmly contested
the ribbons. A new class, Iowa Spe-
:ials, was crowded. This was for Iowa
bred stu2 only.
See the fine new lot of glassware at
Miller's furniture store.