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remembered as owning the leading western show 

 herd of his day. 



Mr. Dent has a snap in his bull. It is under- 

 stood that he is co-operating with his father 

 and brother in the ownership, but the fact is that 

 the father bought the bull and the sons are using 

 him. The elder Mr. Dent selected a very good 

 bull, for Prairie King by Sir Edelweiss (see 

 Regier sketch) is out of a daughter of Wooddale 

 Chieftain, one of the best bulls by The Choice 

 of All ever sent out by Mr. Gentry. 



H. O. Mott, White City. Mr. Mott's connec- 

 tion with Shorthorns dates back to 1905, the 

 present herd consisting of twenty females. Pur- 

 chases of foundation stock were made from Rich- 

 ard Roenigk, Thos. B. Reid, of Franklin county 

 and others. These cows were of good descent, 

 carrying much of the blood of two noted Kansas 

 herds, those of C. W. Merriam and C. F. Wolf 

 & Son. The bulls used were Prairie King 442970 

 and Crimson Light 656773. The latter was bred 

 by J. H. Taylor & Sons and is now in use. His 

 sire is the well known Marengo Pearl, a bull that 

 did great service in C. W. Taylor's herd. Mr. 

 Mott is located in a cattle country where all con- 

 ditions are favorable to live stock production. 



L. W. Reeves, Parkerville. The Reeves farm 

 seems ideally located for the production of 

 Shorthorns since it furnishes everything that 

 should go to develop the young stock well and 



