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and imp. Craibstone with an imp. Nonpareil 

 Victor cross near the top of the pedi- 

 gree. They are four crosses from imp. Rose- 

 blush bred by Duthie. Secrecy, a good young 

 cow, is a granddaughter of Secret of Hill Farm 

 3d, a Dustin bred daughter of imp. Merry Hamp- 

 ton. She has a white heifer calf by imp. Bapton 

 Corporal for which tempting offers running 

 near four figures have been refused. 



Three additions were made at the Koyal sale 

 in 1919. Musical, twenty-five months old with 

 heifer calf at foot, was not only one of the bar- 

 gains but one of the really desirable things in 

 the offering. Pew Shorthorns have such a wealth 

 of ancestry. Among her immediate ances- 

 tors are Pleasant Dale 2d out of the dam of the 

 $10000 2d Fair Acres Sultan; Captain Archer, 

 own brother to Sweet Mistletoe, dam of Lespe- 

 deza Collynie, 1919 International grand cham- 

 pion; imp. Collynie, the sire of Sweet Mistletoe 

 and scores of the best Shorthorns ever owned in 

 the central West besides Eoyal Knight, the best 

 son of imp. Princess Alice, the outstanding cow 

 of her generation. As an addition to a breeding 

 herd Musical should prove of great value. Miss 

 Monarch 2d, two years old with four grand 

 champions of America in the first three crosses, 

 was one of the elegant heifers sold by Harriman 

 Bros, and fell to Mr. Leidy's bidding. 



The present herd bull is leaving so great an 



