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Cruickshank Duchess of Gloster, for a plain or 

 medium Shorthorn can not be called anything 

 else than plain even in a pedigree. If, however, 

 the immediate ancestry of the animal were excel- 



MISS FLOEENCE LAUDE MISS MARGUERITE STANLEY 

 Daughter of the author, .who as- Who determined Harper county 

 sisted in arrangement and re- should have a Shorthorn Breeders 

 vision of copy for A History of Association though she must con- 

 Shorthorns in Kansas. stitute the entire membership. 



lent individuals it cannot be called anything but 

 a good pedigree and any attempt to discredit an 

 animal so bred by calling it plain bred and by 

 dwelling on the excellent pedigree of the first 

 mentioned class shows either woeful ignorance 

 or an attempt to deceive. Let us call things what 

 they are and remember that real merit is the only 

 true standard of worth or excellence even in 

 Shorthorn pedigrees. 



