APPENDIX B 



CATTLE 



FACTS REGARDING THE ANIMALS ILLUSTRATED. 



Frontispiece This picture represents a herd of pure bred 

 Shorthorns owned by Samuel B. Gorwill, near London. 

 Ontario, Can. 



Dual-Purpose Cow No. 2965, Mayflower A. 12. Bred 

 by George F. Taber, Paterson, N. J., owned by V. T. Hills, 

 Delaware, O. Winner of first prize at the Ohio state dairy 

 test in 1891. Milk record for one year, 11,508 pounds, which 

 at 4.59 per cent, the average of her official test in butter fat, 

 would produce 584 pounds of butter. Milk yield from August, 

 1890, to December 30, 1893, three years and five months, 

 37>967 1-4 pounds, which averaged in butter fat 4.35 per cent. 

 Mayflower A. 12 is a pedgreed Red Poll. 



Shorthorn Bull Nominee 131262. Bred by E. Gaunt & 

 Sons, St. Helens, Ontario, Can. Owned by H. F. Brown, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. Winner of grand sweepstakes prize over 

 all breeds at the Trans-Mississippi exposition held at Omaha 

 in 1898. 



Shorthorn Cow Victoria 55th (Vol. 24, p. 18,814). Bred 

 by J. W. Aldrich, Tiskilwa, 111., in 1882, subsequently owned by 

 William Cummings & Son, later by C. M. Sanger & Son and 

 still later by George Harding & Son, Waukesha, Wis. Win- 

 ner of first prize at several leading state fairs. 



Hereford Bull Corrector 48976. Bred and owned by T. 

 F. B. Sotham, Chillicothe, Mo. His record as a prize winner 

 in the leading showrings^of the United States and as a sire 

 of prize-winning animals is probably unequaled by that of any 

 other bull now living. Corrector is the sire of the two famous 

 show and stock bulls, Sir Bredwell 63685 and Thickset 68785. 

 At Kansas City, in 1899, Sir Bredwell sold for $5000, the 

 highest price ever reached by a Hereford sold at auction. 



Hereford Cow Benita 48542. Bred and owned by T. F. 

 B. Sotham, Chillicothe, Mo. Winner of first prize at several 

 of the leading state fairs from 1894 to 1898. 



Aberdeen-Angus Bull Jim Jams 13896 (7630). Bred by 

 O. C. Wallis of Bradley Hall, England, selected by the late 

 William Watson and imported by W. T. Harvey, then of Tur- 



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