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A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



for the year. An account of the one time he 

 failed to sell at the highest price for the year is 

 given in a -letter as follows : 



MR. AND MRS. W. J. SAYRE 



Cedar Point, Kansas. 

 July 25, 1920. 



Dear Mr. Laude: 



I think I have told you why 1 failed to receive the 

 top price one year. It was because mine were too heavy. 

 The buyers were wanting them very small that spring and 

 some 500 pound S. M. S. heifers sold a little higher than 

 my Shorthorns, but the Shorthorns brought many more 

 dollars. Several times I have bought the very best Here- 

 fords I could buy and fed them with my own and at 110 

 time did any of them gain as much as the Shorthorns and 

 only on one occasion were they good enough to sell with 

 them. 



Sincerely, 



W. J. SAYRE. 



