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Henry Pierce. Jay Beach was prominent in 

 Oregon, the Dubois Brothers in Colorado ; H. I. 

 & F. D. Stout, Walter I. Hayes, and Nat 

 Bruen commanded earnest attention in Iowa ; 

 in Kansas, Sprague & Akers and H. G. Toler 

 were prominent ; in Minnesota N. W. Kittson, 

 W. R. Merriam, and G. W. Sherwood bred 

 extensively. In Michigan S. A. Browne, Walter 

 Clark, Dewy & Stewart, and Sutherland & Ben- 

 jamin; in Illinois were Arthur J. Caton, F. S. 

 Gorton, A. G. Danforth, Fred Seacord, W. A. San- 

 born, and C. W. Williams; in Indiana, W. P. 

 Ijams, M. L. Hare, James Wilson, and White 

 River Stock Farm. Bitter Root Farm, during the 

 life of Marcus Daly, was the foremost breeding 

 farm of Montana ; but other breeders that obtained 

 prominence in that state were Huntley & Clark, 

 C. X. Larabee, and W. H. Raymond. In Wis- 

 consin, H. L. Dousman, Jerome I. Case, John 

 L. Mitchell, Uhlien Brothers, and F. S. Waters 

 were prominent. George M. Jewett, C. F. Emery, 

 W. H. White, Frank Rockefeller, John B. Cassily, 

 George H. Ketcham, L. G. Delano, Allen G. 

 Thurman, and Lewis & Albough kept Ohio to the 

 front. May Overton, G. M. Fogg, V. L. Kirk- 

 man, A. H. Robinson, J. W. Thompson, and 



