"2H'2 A JIISTOKY OP SHORTHOENS IN KANSAS 



and imp. Craib.stone with an imp. Nonpareil 

 Vic.t(jr (-ross near tlie top of tlie pedi- 

 gree. They are four crosses from imp. Rose- 

 bhish bred by Dutliie. Secrecy, a good young 

 cow, is a granddaughter of Secret of Hill Farm 

 ;id, a Dnstin bred daughter of imp. Merry Hamp- 

 ton. She has a white heifer calf by imjD. Bapton 

 Corporal f(jr which tempting offers running 

 near four figures have been refused. 



Three additions were made at the Royal sale 

 in 1919. Musical, twenty-five months old witJi 

 heifer calf at foot, was not only one of the bar- 

 gains but one of the really desirable things in 

 the offering. Few Shorthorns have such a wealth 

 of ancestry. Among her immediate ances- 

 tors are Pleasant Dale 2d out of the dam of the 

 $10000 2d Fair Acres Sultan; Captain Archer, 

 own brother to Sweet Mistletoe, dam of Lespe- 

 deza C<.>llynie, 1919 International grand cham- 

 pioii; imp. CoUynie, the sire of Sweet Mistletoe 

 and scores of the ))est Shorthorns ever owned in 

 th(_; central West besides Royal Knight, the l^est 

 son of i]np. Princess Alice, the outstanding cow 

 of her g(^ne]-a,tion. As an addition to a ])i-eeding 

 lierd Mnsical slionld ])rov(.' of great vahie. Miss 

 Mona]-c.li 2d, two years old with four grand 

 (^l)anipions of Aiiierica in tlie fii'st thre(; crosses, 

 was one <>\' \\\<' elegant lieifej-s sold ])y Harriman 

 liros. and fell to Mi'. Leid.y's bidding. 



'I^lie jM'esent iic^i'd bnll is leaving so great an 



