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and sold in the same sale as Kansas Lad Jr. It will 

 be recalled that Prime Lad, in the hands of the late 

 Wm. S. VanNatta, became one of the greatest sires 

 of his time. I undoubtedly made the greatest mis- 

 take of my service with Mr. Armour's breeding 

 problem by not lighting to a finish to retain Kansas 

 Lad Jr., but, as I have said, or will say somewhere 

 in this series, Mr. Armour was a trader. He loved 

 to buy as well as to sell, and never turned us down 

 on anything we wanted in connection with our 

 breeding problem. But when it came to a choice 

 between a trade or breeding theory, it was apt to 

 be a trade, and he did love to sell a good one; in 

 fact, "Brother Jim" was to some extent tarred with 

 the same stick. They were both dead-game sports, 

 and took their medicine gracefully when things 

 didn't come their way. 



Mr. Funkhouser left an impress on the registered 

 Hereford industry which was more far-reaching than 

 that of men who have since come into prominence. 

 I make this comment without a thought of dis- 

 paraging them, but rather to emphasize the faith and 

 persistence of men like Funkhouser, "Tom" Clark, 

 ,Wm, S. VanNatta, Gudgell & Simpson and others 

 of their class who stayed with the trade during 

 its dark days. They remind me of the trait which 

 always produces the great men of any industry: 

 "The man worth while is the one who can smile 

 when everything goes dead wrong." 



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