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NORTON COUNTY 



R. W. Dole, Almena. Although this herd 

 dates only from 1917, Mr. Dole was able to hold 

 a very successful sale in 1919 and another in 

 1920. Several choice additions have recently 

 been made and there are now thirty-five females 

 in the herd. Some of these cows are of the most 

 popular breeding, while all are strong in good 

 Scotch blood. Roan King, a grandson of Ru- 

 berta's Goods and imp. Rose of Tyne, was one of 

 the sires used with success. Another was Clipper 

 Goods, a splendidly bred white, out of a daughter 

 of Snowf lake, the sire of Ringmaster. At pres- 

 ent the leading herd bull is Roan Sultan 668451. 

 This bull comes from ancestry of much prestige 

 and should give excellent service in the herd. 



OSAGE COUNTY 



A. F. Kitchin, Burlingame. Mr. Kitchin 

 comes from an old Kentucky Shorthorn family, 

 both his father and his grandfather having been 

 breeders of the reds, whites and roans. He has 

 built up a herd of thirty females and has all the 

 facilities needed for making cattle growing a suc- 

 cess. A few years ago he made a very fortunate 

 investment in buying the cow, Miss Acorn. She 

 was sired by the Prather bred bull, Highlander 

 and her dam was Wealthy Acorn 5th, one of the 

 best cows in Mr. Gentry's herd and dam of 



