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In April 1918 at a sale of good Shorthorns, a 

 friend asked me to pick out for him the best bull 

 in the sale and I selected Victoria's Baron 2d. 

 Mr. Donham saw this bull a week later and by 

 paying my friend $200 profit, he secured the 

 calf, then just twelve months old, for use in his 

 herd. He has grown into a splendid show and 

 breeding bull, which is only what could reason- 

 ably be expected of him, for his ancestry has a 

 rich inheritance of what is best in Shorthorns. 

 Secret Baron, his sire, was probably the best son 

 of Snowstorm, the elegant breeding son of 

 Snowflake, sire of the three times International 

 grand champion Eingmaster. His dam is by 

 Choice Collynie, a bull that in the first remove 

 descends from Choice Goods and imp. Collynie, 

 Eoyal Knight and the two great cows, Wistful 

 and imp. Princess Alice. 



E. A. Cory & Sons, Talmo. The senior mem- 

 ber of this firm is well known as sales manager 

 for the Northwest Kansas Association. This is 

 an old established herd and there are now almost 

 100 females on the farm. One of the best cows 

 from which the herd descends is Belle of Ever- 

 green 30th, sixteen years old, the dam of 

 thirteen calves, ten of them heifers. She has 

 weighed 1960 pounds and is considered by Mr. 

 Cory a first-class Shorthorn cow. The size as 

 indicated by this cow is one of the features of 

 the herd which includes numbers of animals of 



