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with a large herd can realize how great were Mr. 

 Ford's trials. In 1893 he sold a number of cows 

 to H. M. Hill and a little later Mr. liill bought 

 the entire herd including Scottish Emijeror. This 

 was Mr. Hill's initiation in the Shorthorn busi- 

 ness and while prices were so low that little 

 profit accrued, yet he did well on the Ford cattle. 



C. M. Gifford & Sons, Clay County.— This 

 was one of the most favorably known firms of 

 breeders in th(i northeast secticm of the state. 

 Operations were begun by Gifford & Sons late 

 in the seventies and by 1882 they had a good 

 sized herd. In the fall of that year they bought 

 the ]'cd and \vhit(;, (Jord(;lia's Duke, a po])ular 

 Renick Rose of Sharon bull that had been a good 

 winner at the leading western shows. He was 

 used with other bulls of siniiliar breeding. The 

 herd occupied a prominent position and was 

 later kept up by F. M. Gifford, the junior j^art- 

 ner. Mr. Gifford made no effort to breed his 

 cattle along any straight line but the general 

 opinion is that he raised good cattle. Some years 

 ago he sold the entire lot to S. B. Amcoats and it 

 was from these cattle that many of the good 

 things on the Amcoats farm have been bred. The 

 herd until recently owned by Warren Watts of 

 Clay Center is also des(;ended from Gifford bred 

 cattle and the output of the herd has been used 

 by numerous others as a foundation. 



Jolin McCoy, Brown County. — John McCoy, a 



