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females. Royal Empress 12th is by Cumberland 

 Diamond. She was not only the best heifer in 

 the sale but she would look good in any herd and 

 her breeding is as good as her individuality. Her 

 dam was by Victor Orange, one of the noted bulls 

 of the breed and her second dam was by Star 

 Goods, own brother to Bellows Bros. ' champion, 

 Diamond Goods. The other cow is by Star Goods 

 out of a Victor Orange dam and is of the regula- 

 tion Stunkel breeding. 



Mr. Leidy has been using Fremont Leidy 's 

 Cedar Dale and the two brothers who live on ad- 

 joining farms will continue to co-operate to some 

 extent in the matter of bulls, but it was also 

 deemed necessary to have a bull on this farm. At 

 the Purple Ribbon sale held in January 1920 at 

 Wichita, the excellent young prize winning bull 

 from F. C. Barber & Sons' consignment was 

 secured at one of the high prices of the sale. 



G. W. Brown & Sons, Leon. It is a good lot 

 of cattle which this firm is getting together. The 

 herd represents their purchases at the last two 

 sales held by Fremont Leidy where they were 

 quite critical in their selections. About forty 

 females are now on the farm, most of them of 

 the well known Leidy breeding, coming from the 

 Fraser herd through daughters of Falsetto, Silk 

 Goods and Crown Prince of Lawnsdale and from 

 J. F. Stodder through daughters of Captain 

 Archer and Gwendoline's Prince, lines of 



