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111 April 1918 at a sale of ^ood Rlinrthorns, a 

 friend asked me to }»ick out for him the l)est bull 

 ill Ihe sale and 1 seleeted Yi«'t(.»ria's ISaruii 2d. 

 Mr. Donham saw this Inill a week later and by 

 payin!^- my friend >|^15(>0 [irofit, he secured tin; 

 ralf, then Just twelve months old, for use in his 

 herd. He has urown into a splendid show and 

 breediujj,' bull, whieh is only wliat could reason- 

 alily l)e exjiected of him, for his ancestry has a 

 rich inheritance of what is I)est in kSliortli(.)rns. 

 Secret J>aron, his sire, Avas prolialdy the best son 

 of Snowstoiiii, the eh/yant breedino- son of 

 iSnowflak*', sii'e !>t the thi-ee times Tnternational 

 .U'raiid ciuimpion Eiiif^master. His dam is by 

 ('hoice ( 'ollynie, a i»u!l that in the first remove 

 desf-ends fi'om (_'ij')ice (tooiIs and imp. Collynie, 

 Eoyal Ivnip'ht and the two ui-eat cows. Wistful 

 and im]>. Princess Alice. 



E. A. Cory & Sons, Talmo. — The senior mem- 

 ber of this firm is well kwown as sales manager 

 for the Northwest Kansas Association. This is 

 an (dd estaldished herd and there are now almost 

 lOU females on the farm. One of the best cows 

 from which the herd des<'ends is I]elle of Ever- 

 green ;)Otli, sixteen years old, the dam of 

 thirteen calves, ten of them heifers. She has 

 weighed 1960 pounds and is considered by Mr. 

 Cory a first-class Shorthm-n cow. The size as 

 indi<'ated b\" this C(_iw is one of the features of 

 the herd which includes numbei's of animals of 



