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own use. He did keep him and under the name 

 of iU>\. Carved Jie was taken from the pasture and 

 without fitting Jie won tJiird plaee in a str'oiig 

 (dass at the American Iinyak I liad the pheasure 

 of seeing t'us l>ull as a l<.)ng two-year-okl and 

 th<juglit hdm one of the l)est individu.als I liad 

 evei' seen. 



Tlie Mitidiell lierd consists of twelve cows of 

 outstanding excellence. Six of these are hy 

 Col. Carvel, four are out of his daughters, and 

 one is hy White Cr)ods, his sii'e. It is donl»tful 

 if in any otker herd in tliis state can he found the 

 same luunher of c(:>ws l)y one l)ull or out of his 

 <lauglders that are equal in size, <degant appear- 

 ance, smoothness, fleshing quality, milking ca- 

 pacity and as lireeders, to this lot of cows. 



As I saw these cows in the pasture in 1919, all 

 exce])t one suckling calves 1)y Jealous Renown 

 498758, I could iiot ludi") thinking what a pity it 

 was that so many l)reeders allow their commer- 

 cial instir:cts to seriously interfere with their 

 success as i-eal f»reeders. Mi". Mitchell did not do 

 this and he has the results of his devotion to high 

 tShorthoi-n standards slinwn in these cows. Becky 

 Barrister Btli, the only daughter of White Coods 

 hd't in the herd, is thirteen years old and is suck- 

 ling an elegant ludfer calf. If this calf fulfills 

 its lu'omisc. some one will have to tak(_' notice 

 later. Baj'on Hampton, a Dustin Ijred Merry 

 Ilampton-Baron <Jrui(d^sliank comhmation, is 



