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have it. a good one. He has used two bulls, both 

 from excellent ancestry. Choice Lavender is a 

 grandson of Bellows Bros.' Best of Goods and 

 Ms dam is a daughter of the Duthie bred imp. 

 Lavender Champion. The other bull, Victor 

 Sultan 318050, comes from Bellows Bros, and 

 has for sire Chief Sultan by Whitehall Chief and 

 his dam is Beaver Creek Victoria, one of a very 

 popular line of cows. 



W. W. Wilson, Walnut.* Mr. Wilson and his 

 sons, while comparatively new in the business, 

 already have ten females and an excellent white 

 bull. The cows are rather large and the young 

 stock is being well grown out. I have met Mr. 

 Wilson and his boys and feel that they will be- 

 come successful Shorthorn men. They are co- 

 operating with other breeders in association sales 

 and in everything which will build up general 

 Shorthorn interests. 



BROWN COUNTY 



T. J. Sands, Robinson. Mr. Sands is one of the 

 best and most favorably known breeders of 

 northeast Kansas. He began his operations along 

 pure bred lines in 1893, and to use his own ex- 

 pression, "The cows just had to pay." While 

 this condition may 110 longer apply, they are pay- 

 ing and w r ill continue to pay well. Just before 

 my visit to Mr. Sands' farm he had sold two nice 



* Station, Savonburg; telephone, Hepler. 



