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were bought in Iowa thirty-five years ago. No 

 effort has been made to attain the highest stand- 

 ard, yet practical utility has always been insisted 

 upon. The cows are of good size and are quite 

 uniform. Since well bred bulls have always been 

 used the herd represents desirable breeding. The 

 men from whom herd bulls have been obtained 

 are Chandler Jordan, Abe Renick, C. C. Bigler, 

 M. E. Jones, C. S. Nevius, Howell Rees and H. 

 H. Holmes. Students of Shorthorn affairs will 

 concede that bulls coming from these herds 

 should have been very good ones. One of the 

 best used was Cherry Grove Banff 19th, selected 

 by the elder Bennington and the senior member 

 of the present firm as the best young bull on the 

 M. E. Jones farm. He was almost a facsimile of 

 his sire, imp. Lord Banff, and proved to be an 

 outstanding breeder. 



Two bulls are now being used. Fame's Goods 

 is by Ruberta 's Goods out of imp. Princess Fame 

 and he carries two direct crosses near the top of 

 his pedigree to Scottish Archer, Mr. Duthie's 

 greatest sire. Fame's Goods had been used be- 

 fore coming to Benningtons and has an estab- 

 lished reputation as a breeder. The other is 

 Choice Echo, a big white, by New Echo, a son of 

 New Goods and his dam was a daughter of imp. 

 Ethel, the very excellent cow that went from Geo. 

 Bothwell 's to Harriman Bros. ' herd. Both these 

 bulls are tried sires of merit and, with their use 



