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Another dash of excellent blood comes in through 

 Captain by Collynie out of the well known cow, 

 Lilac. Twentieth Earl of Valley Grove by Lord 

 Mayor also contributes to the quality of the herd. 

 Six select females purchased from J. C. Rob- 

 ison have recently been added. Like all of Mr. 

 Robison's cattle, these cows have plenty of size, 

 combined with finish. Alfalfa and a silo 

 complete the story of Mr. Higday's operations. 



J. L. Knotts, Caney. For about twenty years 

 Mr. Knotts has been connected with the Short- 

 horn industry and for the past ten years he has 

 been breeding on his own account. His herd of 

 nine cows is descended from one cow that carried 

 in two top crosses the blood of Rosewood, son of 

 imp. Inglewood and imp. Roseleaf by Scottish 

 Archer and of imp. Craven Knight. Mr. Knotts 

 also owns a splendid producing daughter of 

 Harding, a full brother to Mr. HilPs Sarcasm. 

 He is using the bull, Hallwood Goods by Hall- 

 wood Mint, a son of Choice Goods Model and 

 Hallwood Violet by Headlight. The breeding 

 of this bull is elegant and he has proved his worth 

 as a sire by three years service in the herd of A. 

 Hamm & Son. 



A. G. Powell, Liberty. Mr. Powell has been 

 breeding Shorthorns for eleven years. He has a 

 herd of about twenty females, nearly all de- 

 scended from a Cruickshank Orange Blos- 

 som cow purchased from L. T. Frederick of 



