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with a large herd can realize how great were Mr. 

 Ford's trials. In 1893 he sold a number of cows 

 to H. M. Hill and a little later Mr. Hill bought 

 the entire herd including Scottish Emperor. This 

 was Mr. Hill's initiation in the Shorthorn busi- 

 ness and while prices were so low that little 

 profit accrued, yet he did well on the Ford cattle. 



C. M. Gifford & Sons, Clay County. This 

 was one of the most favorably known firms of 

 breeders in the northeast section of the state. 

 Operations were begun by Gifford & Sons late 

 in the seventies and by 1882 they had a good 

 sized herd. In the fall of that year they bought 

 the red and white, Cordelia's Duke, a popular 

 Benick Eose of Sharon bull that had been a good 

 winner at the leading western shows. He was 

 used with other bulls of similiar breeding. The 

 herd occupied a prominent position and was 

 later kept up by F. M. Gifford, the junior part- 

 ner. Mr. Gifford made no effort to breed his 

 cattle along any straight line but the general 

 opinion is that he raised good cattle. Some years 

 ago he sold the entire lot to S. B. Amcoats and it 

 was from these cattle that many of the good 

 things on the Amcoats farm have been bred. The 

 herd until recently owned by Warren Watts of 

 Clay Center is also descended from Gifford bred 

 cattle and the output of the herd has been used 

 by numerous others as a foundation. 



John McCoy, Brown County. John McCoy, a 



