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dams are by such bulls as Violet's Searchlight 

 and Owen Kane's Augustire by Villager. A few 

 more were bought locally. Mr. Helmer's cows 

 are for family use as well as for raising good 

 Shorthorns, since he believes it more profitable 

 to keep pure breds for this purpose than to keep 

 scrubs or grades, and in this view he is correct. 

 His bull was bred by Rousseau Smith & Son and 

 is out of one of their best cows. (See Smith 

 sketch.) He is large, thick and smooth and from 

 a herd in which the cows are heavy milkers. 



O. E. R. Schulz, Ellsworth. Mr. Schulz has 

 been in the breeding business for six years. He 

 has a nicely bred herd of twenty females and the 

 good bull, Color Bearer by Maxwalton Rosedale, 

 full brother to the champion, Whitehall Rose- 

 dale. Color Bearer's dam is by Gallant Knight 

 and out of imp. Clara 59th. There are some valu- 

 able cows in the herd, one of which is Model 

 Milkmaid, bred by W. A. Betteridge by the well 

 known Orange Model out of a dam by Victorious 

 out of Rose of Autumn 21st. This is exception- 

 ally good breeding and is very popular. The bull 

 used prior to the purchase of Color Bearer was 

 Abbotsf ord Lad by Wooddale Chieftain, a son of 

 The Choice of All. Mr. Schulz has a splendid 

 local demand for his stock. 



FINNBY COUNTY 

 R. J. Ackley, Garden City. Mr. Ackley's 



