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Basil Duke 4tli, a son of Basil Duke 6434, a bull 

 of wide reputation in Henry Laramore's Callo- 

 way eoinity, Missouri, herd. Two of the cows 

 were by Basil Duke. In 1880 these cows were 

 sold to W. B. Woodside of Eose and at Mr. 

 Woodside's dispersion sale in 1893 a foTir-year- 

 old dau.o-hter of one of the cows was sold to Sam- 

 uel Kahl of Buffalo, at the high price of $50. 

 Mr. Kahl bred some excellent cattle from this 

 cow and the good herd of F. A. Dumond of Yates 

 Center comes from the Kahl cows. 



Towne & Boomer. — This Brown county firm 

 began breeding Shorthorns about 1877. They 

 owned, among others, the imported cow Charlotte 

 4th by Duke of Knowlmere and a lot of cows 

 sired by the Princess bull, Claud Wetherby, pur- 

 chased" about 1878 by C. W. Click. (See Click 

 sketch) . It is quite likely that Claud Wetherby 

 was received by Mr. Click in exchange for the 

 bull Custavus 17276, which bull Towne & Boom- 

 er began using at the same time that Mr. Click 

 began using Claud Wetherliy. The herd did not 

 assume more than local j^roportions and while 

 consisting of sj)lendid cattle, was like so many 

 others lost in the change from Bates to Scotch in 

 the desj^erately trying times of the middle and 

 latter eighties. 



A Wide Range of Purchase. — Late in 1875 H. 

 A. Stratton of Lyon county bought the bull 

 Prince 27484 bred bv A. C. Punk of Illinois. 



