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as well as quality. While the herd bulls of the 

 past have carried the blood of some worthy an- 

 cestry, it is only within the last year that a real 

 effort has been made to obtain the kind of a bull 

 that should attract attention. Those who saw 

 and read the last April edition of The Shorthorn 

 in America may recall having seen a picture of a 

 roan bull calf by Matchless Dale alongside his 

 dam, Pride's Bessie, a first-class beef cow with a 

 milk record of more than 8000 pounds. This 

 young bull, Best of Dales, is Otto Bros.' herd 

 bull. He represents not only what is best for the 

 producer of beef as shown in the fact that Match- 

 less Dale has sired more prize winning beef steers 

 than has any other bull of any breed living or 

 dead and that his dam would be a strong con- 

 testant in a beef class show, but he represents the 

 very thing needed by the small farmer whose 

 cows must raise good beef cattle yet give milk for 

 the family and frequently also for market. 

 Pride's Bessie, dam of Best of Dales, is illus- 

 trated on page 11 of this book. In lending their 

 aid to the solution of the farm cow problem Otto 

 Bros, will not go unrewarded. 



Bluemont Farm, Manhattan. This lot of for- 

 ty females is one of the well selected Kansas 

 herds, including daughters of Avondale and Vil- 

 lager and of other good bulls as well as of some 

 imported cows. The object is to develop, along 

 with the prestige of best ancestry, a herd of cows 



