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J. C, was talcen in a.t the outset and has continued 

 the business since the death of the father. 



There were numerous other breeders in the Sun- 

 flower State who began about the same time and 

 who have bred good stock. Many quit just a little 

 too soon to reap the harvest of their labors, but their 

 work has benefitted the breed in the hands of later 

 breeders. A notable instance is that of S. W. Mc- 

 Millan, Topeka, Kans., who had a few very select 

 mares bought from the EUwood stud. He lost heart 

 and sold 6 of them to J. W. & J. C. Eobison in 1900 

 for a small sum. In this group was the mare Fine 

 13085 (26998), considered to have been the best 

 brood mare ever owned at Whitewater Falls, and her 

 foal Zaza. Zaza was afterwards first at the St. Louis 

 exposition in 1904 and sold to E. B. White for $1,000, 

 who considers her the greatest brood mare he has 

 ever owned; in 1914 Mr. White had sold nearly 

 $10,000 worth of her descendants and had all but 2 

 of her female descendants left. Yet this mare Zaza, 

 now one of the greatest living brood mares, was bred 

 by an obscure Kansas breeder who knew and loved 

 good Percherons, but who lost courage when victory 

 was within his grasp. 



There were many other instances of like character 

 in Kansas, and in other spates. Such cases were 

 unusually frequent in the Sunflower State, however, 

 for the reason that good horses of good breeding 

 had been taken there and widely distributed, but so 

 decreased in size by unfavorable environment that 

 their real value was lost to sight for a time. The 



