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(xifforcrs giHid soil of Lord Mayor. ]Mr. OstliiBd 

 is acting- wis(dy in not overlooking milking 

 ([nality in his cows. 



AVILSOX ('orNTY 

 M. J. Roney, Benedict. — Some years ago in 

 one of the Fj'edonia sales II. M. IliU sold an ex- 

 cellent lot of roan heifers and he also inclnded 

 Ingle Lad, (see H. M. Hill sketdi ) the sire of 

 neai'ly all his yonng stcK/k. Mr. Eoney was the 

 high hidder f(.)r the bull and throngh this pur- 

 chase ))eeame known as a man with a good bull at 

 the head of his herd. The heifers by Ingle Lad 

 developed into first-class cows, all good milkers 

 and good breedei's and tliose in Mr. Koney's herd 

 are no exception to this ride. One of these cows 

 is out of a granddaughter of inq». <Jr;ul)stone 

 Shepherdess, the dam of the well known Crail)- 

 stone. Another is (lut of a cow l:»y Fi(/kl Marshall 

 l:)y Marshall Abbotsliurn, a son of Mary Abbots- 

 burn 7th, the gi'eatest prize winning cow in 

 America and 1)\' Young A))botsburn, probal:)ly 

 the most wonderful of all American show bulls. 

 In conmion with practi<-ally all Wilson county 

 herds, Mr. Eoney 's cattle have a strong iniusi(_in 

 of the Idood of imp. Collynie and the Ingle Lad 

 cows, as well as the rest (_)f the herd, nicked well 

 with the next bull, flolden Hanipt<»n, a son of 

 Hampton Spray, one of the l)est hulls ever owned 

 in southern Kansas. (Toldeii Hamj^don was out 



