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excellent results. He has just purchased a first- 

 class young bull which completes his herd. 



JACKSON COUNTY 



Ed Stegelin, Straight Creek. Few, if any, 

 Kansas Shorthorn breeders are better known 

 than Ed Stegelin. He has been a fixture on the 

 big show circuits for a number of years and as 

 a winner he has excelled prominent exhibitors 

 and has carried off many blue and purple rib- 

 bons. It was about ten years ago that I first 

 met Mr. Stegelin at the Topeka fair. He was 

 there with a string of his cattle and the regular- 

 ity with which he took second and third places 

 was almost striking. He said little while awards 

 were being placed but after the show he re- 

 marked "When I go out to show again, I will 

 have cattle that can win first place." He meant 

 it and he carried out the resolve. 



At Mr. Stegelin 's sale in 1918 the show herd 

 was dispersed and since then no showing has 

 been done. At the time of my visit to the farm in 

 July 1919 there were about forty females in the 

 herd and it was a rare treat to look them over. 

 Half of them are by the many times grand cham- 

 pion bull, True Sultan, and every one of these 

 True Sultan heifers I saw was not only big but 

 was also finished from end to end. The other 

 twenty cows are from excellent ancestry. Rose- 

 dale Charity is out of a dam by Prince Imperial, 



