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as well as (juality. While the herd bulls of the 

 }»ast liare eai'vied the blood of some worthy aii- 

 eesti-\-, it is only within the last year that a real 

 effort has been made to (d)taiii tlie kind of a bnll 

 thai should attraet allention. Those who saw 

 and read the last A])i-i] edition of The Shorth<irn 

 ill America may recall iundnj^- seen a pictni'e of a 

 roan bull calf hy Matchless Dale alongside his 

 dam, i*ride's Jjessie, a J'irs1-class beef cow with a 

 milk recoid of moi-c than 8000 pounds. This 

 younu' bull. J>est oT Dales, is <Jtto Bros.' herd 

 bull. Jle represents not only what is best f(.tr the 

 jn-odiicer of Iseef as shown in the fact that Match- 

 less ] fale has sired more pj-ir^e winnino- beef steers 

 than has am' other bull of any breed living or 

 dead and tliat his dam would l)e a strong con- 

 testant in a l)eef (dass show, but he rei)resents the 

 vrry thing needed by the small farmer whose 

 cows must I'aise good l»eef cattle yet give milk for 

 1he family and freipieritly also for market. 

 Pride's Bessi<", dam of Best of Dales, is illus- 

 trated on page 11 of this hook. In lending their 

 aid to the solution of the farm cow problem Otto 

 Bros, will not go umx'warded. 



Bluemont Farm, Manhattan. — This hit of for- 

 ty females is (jne of the well selected Kansas 

 herds, in<duding daughters of Avondale and Vil- 

 lager and of other good bulls as well as of some 

 imported cows. The object is to develop, along 

 with the prestige of best ancestry, a herd of cows 



