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are among the best in this part of Kansas with 

 the choicest pastures and unlimited acreage of 

 alfalfa land and all needed buildings that will en- 

 able a man to get the best results in handling- 

 cattle. The stock on hand is exceptionally good. 

 It includes the red, Jacintha 2d, an Amcoats bred 

 daughter of Whirlwind by Captain Archer and 

 her yearling heifer by Victor Grloster, the grand 

 champion bull at the 1919 fall Southeast Short- 

 horn show at Independence. This pair was in the 

 excellent consignment made by J. H. Holcomb 

 to the Southeast Kansas sale and Jacintha 2d 

 was the best producing cow in the Holcomb herd. 

 Passing by a number of good ones I want to 

 notice Lady Cumberland, a roan by the Owen 

 Kane bred Spicy Pride, a son of Spicy Cumber- 

 land by Cumberland's Last. Spicy Pride's dam 

 was Maxwalton Rosewood by Avondale out of 

 imp. Rosewood 86th. The dam of Lady Cumber- 

 land is out of a Rapp bred daughter of Gladstone, 

 recognized as one among the better sires by 

 Whitehall Sultan and a bull whose get won many 

 prizes at the big shows. Lady Cumberland her- 

 self is one of the best specimens of the breed in 

 this part of Kansas and would make a strong 

 entry in a good show. The bull selected by Mr. 

 Works is a white of outstanding merit. He was 

 bred by John Regier and was considered by Mr. 

 Regier one of the best bulls he ever bred, if not 

 the best. He is unusually deep and thick with as 



