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the junior heifer show calf, for $500. It was an- 

 nounced at this sale that Claude Makin, who had 

 been the guiding hand in the firm's Hereford breed- 

 ing operations for thirty years, would continue in 

 the business, retaining the bull Beau Paragon and a 

 few females. Needless to say, this announcement 

 was received with special satisfaction, because in 

 the course of his long and honorable identification 

 with the ".white faces" he had been a consistent 

 adherent of "quality" cattle and had gained the 

 goodwill of all with whom he had come in contact. 

 At the combination sale during the Chicago Inter- 

 national 51 head made the gratifying average of 

 $286.30. Twenty-one females averaged $344, this 

 mark being reached largely through the sale of the 

 junior champion heifer Perfection Lass to Mr. Cud- 

 ahy at $2,000. C. M. Largert of Texas bought Mr. 

 McCray's bull calf. Victor Fairfax at $1,000, and 

 William Andrews & Sons of Morse, la., gave the 

 same amount for Jim Price's yearling Bonnie Brae 

 37th. George Leigh was a good buyer upon this 

 occasion, taking a number of good bulls for the west- 

 ern trade. 



Death of William S. VanNatta. The veteran 

 breeder, William S. VanNatta, died at Fowler, Ind., 

 on May 26, 1911, at the mature age of eighty-one 

 years. He was born in a log cabin on the prairies 

 of Tippecanoe Co., Ind., on Sept. 27, 1830. These 

 pages are so full of references to the great Herefords 

 bred by Mr. VanNatta that it is unnecessary to 

 enter into further details concerning his operations 



