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purchased two yearling licif ers of Tomson Bros, 

 for $3000. It is needless to say they are from 

 the tops of that excellent herd. It will be of in- 

 terest to note that his six entries by Scotch Cum- 

 berland in the Purple Ribbon sale at Wichita, 

 though only a little more than twelve months old, 

 averaged $645. 



J. C. Robison, Towanda. Whitewater Stock 

 Farm is a magnificent body of land, 1040 acres, 

 and every acre except that in the bed of the 

 Whitewater River will grow first-class alfalfa. 

 A blue grass pasture that would look good to a 

 native of Kentucky or of Nodaway county, Mis- 

 souri, was being grazed upon April 29 by a 

 Shorthorn to the acre and they had been getting 

 all the grass they wanted for some time. In ad- 

 dition to the elegant bungalow, forty by seventy 

 feet, used as a home for the Robison family, there 

 are four other houses good enough to rent for $25 

 or more in the ordinary Kansas town. These 

 houses are occupied by the men employed in the 

 operation of the farm. As they are all married 

 men and are being well compensated for their 

 services, I suspect Mr. Robison is not having 

 labor troubles. The barns are more extensive and 

 better constructed than those I have found else- 

 where. If this farm is used to its capacity 

 in the production of Shorthorns, one can only 

 wonder at the possibilities of the herd in the 

 future. 



