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with the best Shorthorn breeding in America. 



There is much to recommend the general 

 policy of Shorthorn production as practiced by 

 Mr. Taylor. Securing fair development on ordin- 

 ary farm feeds is the ideal way of producing 

 cattle and stock so produced is always responsive 

 to increased feed. The success of Mr. Taylor's 

 establishment has rested and will continue to 

 rest on the satisfaction given by its output. 



T. A. Ballantyne, Herington. For nearly 

 forty years David Ballantyne raised an excellent 

 class of Shorthorns and his son, T. A. Ballan- 

 tyne, is his successor in the business. The Ballan- 

 tyne cattle were first of all practical and useful 

 for the old Scotchman had enough of the sound 

 sense with which Scotch breeders are credited to 

 avoid anything that would not pay its way and 

 put money into his pocket. His was the method 

 of 'procedure which, ignoring all minor consider- 

 ations, demanded a good animal. 



The twenty females with which T. A. Ballan- 

 tyne began in 1917 were the more desirable of the 

 young animals in this herd. Most of them 

 were by Choice Orange descended through a line 

 of bulls coming from good herds and having had 

 the best of care. They represent on the side of 

 both sire and dam the work of the real breeder. 

 Mention is made of a few to give an idea of the 

 blood lines. Fancy 2d is by Choice Orange bred 

 by E. L. Stunkel. The sire of Choice Orange was 



