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herd was sold to Tomsons it was the intention 

 and for a short time the practice to keep a Short- 

 horn herd as producers of market cattle but 

 the Babsts had been in the pure bred game too 

 long to be permanently satisfied with this 

 method, and so, quite naturally, they began sell- 

 ing breeding stock. 



The present herd consists partly of cows bred 

 by A. A. Clark. Good cows from other herds 

 were also secured and the Babst herd now num- 

 bers about 100 females. Among additions out- 

 side the Clark cows was Lawnsdale Duchess 43d, 

 bred by Alex Eraser and sired by Falsetto. Her 

 dam was by Prince Royal 2d. Red Olga's Victor 

 by Golden Victor Jr. out of Red Olga by Scottish 

 Emperor was from one of H. M. Hill's best fam- 

 ilies of cows. An especially attractive, young 

 cow is the Tomson bred Lady Marshal by Vil- 

 lage Marshal out of a dam by Lord Mayor, sec- 

 ond dam by Vanquish, a well known Harris bred 

 son of Galahad. There is also in the herd one by 

 Beaver Creek Sultan out of the same dam and 

 these two heifers are giving Babst Bros, the 

 same class of females as the best of their herd at 

 the time of its sale to Tomsons. 



The bulls in use have been good ones. Archer's 

 Victor was by Archer, the son of imp. Collynie 

 and imp. Circe 3d and out of Elderlawn Victoria 

 by Gallant Knight. Ingleside For Me, a white, 

 bought to change the herd from red to roan not 



