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show bull, but one of the kind that usually gives 

 proper account of himself as a breeder. His 

 calves are all that could be desired. He is by 

 Reporter, one of the well known and excellent 

 Polled Shorthorn bulls. The Catlins have a' 

 single object in view and that is the production 

 of first-class Shorthorns. The herd receives 

 good feed and good care, the owners doing the 

 rustling instead of allowing the cattle to do it. 



Dr. W. C. Harkey, Lenexa. Dr. Harkey 

 comes before the reader with a reputation as one 

 of the best feeders in Johnson county and, having 

 a good lot of breeding stock, it is needless to 

 say that the herd is good. He has been raising 

 pure breds for nine years and has been using 

 pure bred bulls on a high grade herd for thirty 

 years. His cows came from Alex Fraser, E. 

 Ogden & Son, T. J. Sands, the Bronaughs and 

 Col. Andy James. Dr. Harkey was not a man 

 who would deliberately buy any inferior animals 

 and as these are all creditable herds it is evident 

 that a start was made with desirable females. 



The other half of the herd on the Harkey farm, 

 the bull, is good. He is Realm's Count 2d, a 

 Leonard bred son of Wooddale Stamp. His dam 

 is a daughter of the International champion, 

 Lavender Viscount, and she is one of the Leon- 

 ard Fancy of Ardmore cows. Realm's Count 2d 

 won first prize and was made grand champion 

 bull at the 1917 Central Show, his full brother 



