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herd and the next dam is the Crombie bred imp. 

 Diamond 31st. Such a wealth of ancestry should 

 make any bull a good sire and Cumberland Dia- 

 mond is only transmitting what he has received 

 from his sire and dam. 



To use on the Cumberland Diamond heifers 

 Mr. Stunkel has secured Villager's Champion, a 

 short-legged, thick roan that stood third in class 

 at the American Royal, fifth at the International 

 in 1919 and Second at Wichita in 1921. He is 

 probably the best bull used in the herd since Vic- 

 tor Orange ai:d combines some of the most desir- 

 able ancestry known to Shorthorn history. His 

 sire is Village Perfection, a son of imp. Villager. 

 His dam is by Lord Champion, the famous son of 

 imp. Lady Douglas used with much success by 

 Purdy Bros. 



Meuser & Co., Anson.* Sixteen years ago 

 Win. and Chas. Meuser bought a Shorthorn cow 

 and two years later they bought four heifers. 

 They had extreme bull luck for several years and 

 increase was slow but during this time the sale 

 of bulls paid weir for keeping the herd. As the 

 later purchases of females were balanced by fe- 

 males sold we may fairly say that the present 

 herd of nearly 100 cows and heifers comes from 

 the small outlay made fourteen years ago. Pedi- 

 gree was considered, but not until after the ani- 

 mal had been selected on account of its real merit 



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