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promises to become as valuable as her mother 

 and is now suckling a promising calf. Her next- 

 calf is the young roan bull sold to head the herd 

 of A. A. Tennyson at Lamar and the last, a big, 

 lusty heifer by imp. Lord Alexander, is on the 

 farm. It is Mr. Graner's intention to raise his 

 herd from these two imported cows and their de- 

 scendants, which it should be easy to do, consid- 

 ering their prolificacy. 



The herd bull, imp. Lord Alexander, is of 

 large type. I saw him in light flesh and he shows 

 plainly that he has not been pushed. He is 

 straight-lined and quite smooth and his calves 

 are big, thick and smooth. He comes from the 

 Longmore line of cows, the same herd to which 

 Mr. Cruickshank resorted for an outer oss on his 

 herd and the line of sires in his pedigree comes 

 from some of Scotland's best breeders. 



The cattle described above will be kept on the 

 farm and, to make room for the increase, the 

 large herd which for years has been well known 

 in northeast Kansas will be gradually closed out, 

 the Shorthorns of modern breeding in time be- 

 coming the entire herd. 



Ashcraft Bros., Atchison. This is one of the 

 old breeding establishments in northeastern Kan- 

 sas, Ashcraft Bros, having succeeded their fath- 

 er, A. M. Ashcraft who was one of the well known 

 breeders of Atchison county. Active operations 

 began twenty-five years ago in the purchase of 



