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On November 3, 1886, Mr. Harriraan was united in matrimony to Ida E. 

 Robinson of Neenah, Wis., a remarkable woman of business activity and social 

 qualities. To them was born on July 28, 1888, Fred E. Harriman, Jr., and on 

 July 18, 1890, Ray Marshall Harriman, both of whom still bless the household. 



Mr. Harriman keeps well posted with the pedigrees of the several breeds of 

 dairy cattle as well as the different families of the various breeds, and is pleased 

 to have all who are interested in the live stock industry visit him. 



MR. JOSEPH HAVILAND of Glens Falls, N. Y., was born in the town of 

 Queensburg, Warren county, N. Y., in the year 1826, where he now resides 

 (post office Glens Falls) . His father, Joseph Haviland, was a successful farmer 

 on what is known as Sanford's Ridge, and an admirer of fine stock. 



Mr. Haviland's experience in handling and caring for stock has been that 

 of a life-time. 



In March, 1880, he purchased a Holstein bull and heifer of, and imported 

 by, the Unadilla Valley Stock Breeders' Association, and later the bull Jacob 

 Hartog, each of which proved to be of such superior quality that he was 

 induced in 1883 to buy more cattle of Smiths & Powell. 



Among this last lot was Carrie Dean, an imported heifer bred to Nether- 

 land Marquis. Carrie Dean's sire, Willem, was a noted bull in Holland. This 

 animal has been one of the foundation animals of the herd; the other founda- 

 tion animals were obtained from H. Stevens of Lacona and F. C. Stevens of 

 Attica, N. Y. 



The herd is now headed by America 2d's Wayne Paul De Kol, from T. G. 

 Yeomans & Sons' herd. 



With all the former experience of Mr. Haviland, he has found the Holsteins 

 excel for butter as well as milk producing, and that feeding for either will pro- 

 duce the desired object, and also that they will readily take on flesh when not 

 in milk, thus making the most profitable cow for the owner. 



Mr. Haviland in visiting Holland in the year 1887, where the black-and- 

 whites stand higher than all other breeds, was struck with admiration to find 

 them so little pampered, and the almost only source of profit to the farmer. 



Butter and cheese were there sold the highest in Amsterdam for the Lon- 

 don market, and proved to him that the Hollanders were reaping the reward 

 of their ancestors' skill, and are going on improving their most desirable breed 

 of cattle, and it is their never-tiring effort to excel all others in the future as 

 well as in the past. 



MR. H. N. HOLDEMAN of Carthage, Mo., was born in Wooster, O., December 

 27, 1854; was raised on a farm where his father early taught him to be accurate 

 in the feeding and handling of his live stock, though he only kept good high- 

 grade stock. 



In 1878 Mr. Holdeman moved on to a farm of his own near Congress, O., on 

 which he farmed and raised stock, dealing principally in sheep and horses. In 

 1885 he sold the farm and bought and shipped calves to Carthage, Mo., and sold 

 them at a good profit. Being well pleased with the country, and not liking the 

 long, cold winters of northern Ohio, he concluded to move with his family to 

 Missouri. Finding here much inquiry for grade Holstein calves, he returned to 

 Ohio, and bought 110 head of grade Holstein calves and yearlings, and shipped 

 them to Carthage, Mo. 



In 1885 he bought a farm of 140 acres near Carthage, and sold all his Hoi- 

 steins but about thirty head. Mr. Holdeman now realized that in buying the 

 cattle in Lorain and Medina counties, Ohio, he had hitherto been breeding the 

 wrong breed of cattle, namely, Shorthorn. This was also proved to him on 

 looking at the mature Holstein cows owned by such men as Mr. C. W. Horr, 

 Mr. Phelon, and others, and he was easily converted to the fact that the Hoi- 

 steins were the true dairy cows, and were also hard to beat for beef. With 

 this in mind, in the spring of 1886 he went to Kansas City and purchased two 

 registered yearling Holsteins a heifer and a bull. They were from the herd 

 of Mr. Buckingham, of Cleveland, O. 



He took these home, and bred the grade heifers to the bull, and in the fall 



of the same year made a sale and disposed of the heifers, except three or four 



of the choicest ones. In 1887 Mr. Holdeman went to Aurora, 111., and from the 



herd of George E. Brown selected a cow and a two-year-old heifer. The bull, 



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