A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



ning steer herd which the college had out tv/o 

 years. There is something in this double-pur- 

 pose achievement. The Shorthorn is the farm- 



er's cow. 



MATCHLESS QUEEN 100083 

 Milk record 8733.1 pounds. Owned by the Kansas Agricultural College. 



At the Breeders Sale at Coff eyville, April 4, 

 1919, twenty Shorthorns from ten months to 

 four years old, none of them ever in a large crowd 

 before and many of them hardly halter broke, 

 were led into Exposition Hall. When surround- 

 ed by an immense crowd they stood for fifteen 

 minutes without showing any symptoms of ner- 

 vousness, and in the sale of nearly 100 head not 



