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days they were on full feed. They were sold ait 

 an average age of but little over twenty months 

 and brought on the Kansas City market $224.60 

 each. 



Another Shorthorn Achievement. In the fall 

 and early winter of 1918 H. O. Peck & Son, of 

 Wellington castrated five out of twelve bull 

 calves, these like Mr. Hill's having been the ones 

 undesirable for bulls. They were calved from 

 September to December. They were given a 

 little grain while sucking the cows during the 

 winter, were weaned in the spring and ran on 

 pasture the next summer. They had access to a 

 shed and alfalfa hay and received a very small 

 grain ration. They were on full feed a little 

 more than sixty days and were sold at an average 

 of sixteen months at the Peck farm for $119.70. 

 This sale was made on the low market last March. 

 These cases show the value of pure bred Short- 

 horn cows as producers of beef cattle. Only little 

 grain is reqiiired for this class of cattle. 



Shorthorns Feed Well for Baby Beef. W. J. 

 Sayre of Cedar Point, Chase county, now a well 

 known breeder of Shorthorns, was until recently 

 a breeder of Shorthorn calves for beef. These 

 calves were nearly all of his own breeding from 

 high grade and pure bred cows. During a period 

 of ten years Mr. Sayre fed annually a carload 

 of these calves and nine years out of the ten he 

 topped the Kansas City market on baby beeves 



