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the latter nineties owned a class of cattle that 

 were well appreciated and many of them found 

 their way into good herds. Golden Lad bred by 

 0. B. Dustin and sired by the show bull, Golden 

 Rule out of the noted cow imp. Germanica 2d, 

 was doubtless Mr. Lowe's best bull. A number 

 of the cows from this herd and the bull, Golden 

 Lad, were sold to W. C. Edwards of Wichita for 

 his Pawnee county establishment. This bull 

 was used with much success by Mr. Edwards. 



Another Shawnee county herd that won con- 

 siderable fame during the early part of this 

 century was that of D. C. VanMce of Richland. 

 This herd of Polled Shorthorns was exhibited 

 successfully at some of the large fairs and his 

 big red bull Belvedere was for several years the 

 best known Polled Shorthorn bull in the state. 

 At the 1910 Topeka state fair Mr. VanMce 

 showed a roan cow that, judged for the produc- 

 ion of both beef and milk, had few equals any- 

 where. The herd was closed out a few years ago. 



Hoadley & Sigmund and George H. Hoadley 

 & Son established a herd in Sheridan county 

 shortly after 1900. From the beginning they 

 used bulls of better ancestry than were found in 

 most herds, one of the first having been Baronet 

 of Maine Valley, bred by Chandler Jordan. Some 

 of their cows were bred along prevailing fashion- 

 able lines. This was one of the herds earliest 

 established in the northwest section of Kansas. 



