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puTcliased two yeai-ling heifers of Tomson Bros, 

 for !}^3000. It is needless to say they are from 

 the tops of that excellent herd. It will he of in- 

 terest to note that his six entries by Scotch Cum- 

 berland in the Puride Ribbon sale at Wichita, 

 thongli only a little more than twelve months old, 

 averaged $645. 



J. C. Robison, Towanda. — Whitewater Stock 

 Farm is a magnificent body of land, 1040 acres, 

 and every acre except that in the bed of the 

 Whitewater River will grow first-class alfalfa. 

 A blue grass pasture that would look good to a 

 nati-\'e of Kentucky or of Nodaway county, Mis- 

 soui'i, was being gi'azed upon Api'il 29 by a 

 Shorthorn to the acre and they had been getting 

 all the grass they wanted for some time. In ad- 

 dition to the elegant Innigalow, forty by seventy 

 feet, used as a home for the Robison family, there 

 are four other houses good enough to rent for $25 

 <ir more in the ordinary Kansas town. These 

 houses are occupied l\v the men empl(\ved in the 

 opei'ation of the farm. As they are all married 

 men and are being well compensated for their 

 services, I sus]iect Mr. Robison is not having 

 labor ti'oul)les. The l)arns are more extensive and 

 better constructed than lliose I have foiuid else- 

 where. If this fa I'm is used to its capacity 

 in the production of Sluirthorns, one can only 

 wonder at the possil)ilities of the lierd in the 

 future. 



