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of selection and care and a good foundation to 

 start with. The cows are large, at least there are 

 none that incline toward being small. They 

 are kept in thrifty condition and the young stock 

 is kept growing air the time. Sales have been 

 good, too good in fact, for the herd in numbers 

 is below what it should be and what it is intended 

 it shall be in the future. 



Of the twenty-five females on the farm I did 

 not see one that needed to be culled out. Sweet 

 Orange 3d was bred on the farm. She is a roan 

 by Model Gloster and is out of a granddaughter 

 of imp. Master of the Rolls, sire of much excel- 

 lent stock, including Master of the Grove, Inter- 

 national grand champion. Golden Dale, another 

 roan, is by Maxwalton Rosedale, own brother to 

 Whitehall Rosedale, American Royal grand 

 champion and out of imp. Rosewood Pride, dam 

 of Pride of Albion, another American Royal 

 grand champion. The dam of Golden Dale came 

 from the Davidsons in Canada. Cassandria 

 Beauty came from H. H. Kupper and is by imp. 

 Scottish Sentinel, a bull of wide reputation in 

 Nebraska. Her dam was by imp. Strowan Star. 

 Orange Baron, the herd bull recently acquired, 

 has a three-year-old daughter on the farm out of 

 a dam by Gloster 's Choice by Marengo's Choice. 

 I do not know that it was because of this heifer's 

 excellence that Mr. Forbes wanted her sire but it 

 is a safe guess that were she not good, he would 



