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of Ancient Briton's sons Christmas Gift, Country 

 Gentleman and Little Briton. 



Kirk B. Armour, whose herd at Excelsior Springs, 

 Mo., included a lot of fine old Culbertson cows bought 

 the bull St. Louis at $800, Lady Laurel at $1,000 

 and Dimple, a daughter of Lady Daylight, at $700. - 



F. A. Nave of Attica, Ind., shortly to become very 

 prominent in the trade, bought the bull Dale for 

 $1,000 at Harness & Graves ' Chicago sale, where 24 

 head sold at an average of $226. 



Sotliam sold 56 head at an average of $214, in- 

 cluding Sir Comewell to Mr. Hornaday of Ft. Scott, 

 Kans., for $840, Col. Slaughter securing Protection, 

 then four years old, at the comparatively low price 

 of $450. Scott & March sold 72 calves, from eleven 

 to fourteen months old, in the spring of 1897 for 

 $11,400, for range use. 



The Shows of 1897. The Hereford classes at 

 the leading fairs of 1897 were well filled. New ex- 

 hibitors entered the lists and the average quality of 

 the entries was exceptional. In the west Mr. Cross 

 contributed largely to the success of the Hereford 

 presentation. Mr. Funkhouser's entries were of 

 outstanding excellence and the newly organized firm 

 of Steward & Hutcheon came forward for the first 

 time with well fitted cattle of an admirable type. 

 John Steward had been for many years Mr. VanNat- 

 ta's trusty manager. Will Hutcheon had been with 

 Hon. M. H. Cochrane at Hillhurst, and latterly had 

 assisted Steward at VanNatta's. They had now 

 formed a co-partnership, and engaged in the breed- 



