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year for $4100 and Lespedeza Collynie, 1919 In- 

 ternational grand champion. It will be seen that 

 White Hope's sire, grandsire and great grand- 

 sire were all by imp. Collynie and he imparts to 

 his get the thick meatiness of the old bull, with 

 fine finish. Individually he is a good specimen 

 of a large Shorthorn bull, short-legged and of 

 fair finish, a beefy fellow, though not a show 

 bull. 



The- Homans have quite a record as developers 

 of young cattle. At the Wichita show and sale 

 of 1918 they sold a sixteen-month-old bull weigh- 

 ing 1550 pounds that topped the sale for bulls of 

 his age and the year before they had topped the 

 sale on heifer calves with a pair of ten-month-old 

 heifers. These heifers, according to the figures 

 furnished by Mr. Homan, made a gain of nearly 

 five pounds a day for some time. I remember 

 seeing them and recall that they were generally 

 much admired. 



A. H. Taylor & Son, Sedgwick. The Taylors 

 are located one and one-quarter miles west of 

 Briggs Station on the Arkansas Valley interur- 

 ban between Wichita and Newton. Oars run 

 every seventy-five minutes, giving visitors un- 

 usual opportunity for seeing the herd. 



This firm has Shorthorns much above the av- 

 erage in size, form and finish. The greater num- 

 ber are of blood lines such as would appeal even 

 to the most particular. The foundation was laid 



