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lines or to produce the highest-class cattle, but 

 rather to breed a lot of the practical money- 

 making, farmer's sort. To do this, however, it 

 has required the use of pretty good bulls and 

 they are obtained only from good ancestry. 

 Among these bulls has been one sired by Prime 

 Minister whose dam was a full sister to the In- 

 ternational champion, Lavender Viscount. The 

 last bull used was Victor Mysie, a splendid breed- 

 er, as shown in his get. This same bull also sired 

 the fine cows mentioned in Hall Bros.' sketch. 

 (Allen county.) Aside from the sale referred to 

 above, the produce has been sold locally at satis- 

 factory prices. 



Stephen C. Odell, Leroy. Mr. Odell made his 

 first purchases from the J. C. Thorn sale of ex- 

 cellent cattle and secured some of the choice 

 heifers of the offering. They were sired by the 

 badly named but splendid breeding bull, Kaiser, 

 a son of the great Collynie cow, Sycamore Secret. 

 In their top crosses they carried the blood of 

 Harding, full brother to H. M. Hill's cow, Sar- 

 casm, the prize winning Lord Mayor 3d and the 

 Choice Goods bull, Choice Prince, whose dam 

 was by Alice's Prince. Three of the best cows in 

 the C. E. Hill sale were added a little later. The 

 herd bull is by Sycamore Victor, a son of 

 Mr. Hill's $2000 Sycamore Secret 3d and out of 

 the top cow of Mr. Thorn's sale, sold to J. H. 

 Holcomb of Humboldt for $505. Mr. Odell is a 



