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purchased of the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Clara's Type, a roan by Narcissus Type out 

 of a dam by Matchless Dale. This young fellow 

 is large with fine head and neck, good top and 

 bottom lines and a great back and spring of ribs. 

 He combines through his dam and sire, Avon- 

 dale, the greatest son of the world's greatest 

 breeding bull, and Cumberland's Type, the most 

 remarkable prize winning bull of the twentieth 

 century, a wealth of merit in ancestry which 

 should make him an outstanding breeding bull. 



Morse Bros., Delphos.* These men laid their 

 foundation two years ago in buying some good 

 heifers from Johnson Bros. They were by 

 Athene's Scotchman and out of cows by Double 

 Champion, the Choice Goods bull so extensively 

 advertised by Col. Ed Green. Other cows in the 

 herd are by the Kellerman bred Scottish Gloster 

 and by Lord Marr, Mr. Gif ford's well known son 

 of Lord Mayor and imp. Marigold 50th. The 

 herd bull comes from Tomson Bros. His sire is 

 Maxwalton Rosedale by Avondale out of imp. 

 Rosewood Pride. His dam is Glendale Pavonia 

 by Happy Knight, son of Gallant Knight out of a 

 Lord Mayor dam, second dam, imp. Glendale 

 Pavonia by Bold Count. There is no better 

 breeding and I have seen few better young bulls 

 this year. Though running out with the herd as 

 a yearling on pasture and in thin flesh, he is 



* Ship on Santa Fe or Union Pacific. 



