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large herd is composed of some -excellent mater- 

 ial. Among other good cows is Pleasant Jeal- 

 ousy 2d by Watonga Searchlight out of a dam 

 by imp. Shenstone Albino. Harriet Sunshine is 

 by Secret Aberdeen, a son of Aberdeen by imp. 

 Collynie and out of the splendid cow, Lilac 

 Bloom. The bull, Secret Aberdeen was much 

 used in the herd. Another herd bull was Fancy 

 Velvet by Fancy Lord, coming through Tomson 

 Bros, from R. O. Miller. The bull now in use is 

 Avondale Villager, an Owen Kane production 

 by Augustine. His dam is by the great son of 

 Avondale, Double Dale. A herd with such ances- 

 try should be a desirable source of supply. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY 

 R. H. Lister, Ottawa. On this farm condi- 

 tions present a bright outlook for the future. Mr. 

 Lister has had successful experience in breeding 

 and feeding cattle and appearances indicate that 

 he should be good for enough lease on life to put 

 up a herd of extraordinary merit. The cattle 

 are almost exclusively high-class females, select- 

 ed not from the pedigree standpoint but for in- 

 dividual worth and they are of the true Short- 

 horn money making type. Mr. Lister has paid 

 little or no attention to the blood lines, though 

 as is invariably the case, when the right kinds of 

 Shorthorns are selected, they are from the right 

 kinds of ancestry for "Figs do not grow on 



