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dious barns were provided, and provision made for 

 many roomy boxes for the breeding bulls, calving 

 cows or animals in training for the shows. A 

 27,000-gallon reservoir, with pipes to pastures and 

 paddocks, afforded a supply of good water. The 

 sum of $6,000 was expended in improving the road- 

 way leading to the farm. Fences and buildings 

 were immaculate with whitewash. The lots were 

 graveled. In later years, when the herd under the 

 management of " Uncle John" Lewis was the best- 

 groomed and best-advertised collection of Here- 

 fords in North America, Shadeland was indeed the 

 Mecca for all lovers of good white faces. 



Mr. Earl was a wealthy merchant of Lafayette 

 owning large tracts of farming land and Mr. Stuart 

 a younger man of fine attainments, a successful 

 lawyer of the same city. Mr. Earl was engaged in 

 farming and cattle-feeding operations at Earl Park 

 in association with Mr. A. D. Eaub. They had a 

 good lot of Shorthorns at one time, but Mr. Earl 

 had noted that his friends and neighbors, Messrs. 

 Seabury & Sample, were topping the Chicago mar- 

 kets frequently with Hereford steers.* After feed- 

 ing out a few on his own place he became satisfied 

 that the " white faces" were destined to succeed. 

 He had seen something of the home-bred cattle of 

 that time, but knowing that they were as yet in but 

 limited supply he opened a correspondence with 



*Seabury & Sample at a later date built up a good herd of 

 pedigree Herefords. Mr. Seabury lived in the east, Robert Sam- 

 ple, the active manager, was an extensive cattle feeder whose 

 father had been a pork packer at one time interested in the busi- 

 ness with C. M. Culbertson. 



