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pasture, plenty of alfalfa and a disposition to 

 grow good Shorthorns that allows no thought of 

 failure. Mr. Bottom is not thinking of the neat, 

 tidy, round, little type, easily fattened on grain, 

 but of the big, smooth, massive kind that can go 

 out and graze to the best advantage, then winter 

 well on the farm feeds. 



Constant improvement is being planned for 

 the herd and it is no mean one that meets the 

 visitor's eye at this time. With few exceptions 

 the cows are large and of correct Shorthorn type, 

 and they are producing calves that are being 

 well suckled and are growing into good cattle. As 

 I recall it, practically every cow in the herd was 

 suckling a calf or would produce one shortly. 

 This is no doubt largely due to the common- 

 sense method of keeping them neither fat nor 

 lean, just thrifty. In general the breeding is 

 very similar to that in Mr. Clement's herd. 



Kansas Pride, a large, attractive roan comes 

 from Loch Bros. Her sire Walnut Duke, is a 

 Bellows bred son of Hampton's Successor out of 

 a Victorallan dam. Her dam represents Good 

 Choice and Merry Hampton. A Tomson bred 

 daughter of Barmpton Knight is out of a dam by 

 the Harris bred Vanquish, a son of Galahad, sire 

 of Gallant Knight. This cow has been an excel- 

 lent breeder and her bull calves have all sold at 

 good prices before being old enough to wean. She 

 is now suckling a nice heifer. Another attractive 



