b A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



nized that cattle alone have the capacity to turn 

 the big crops of roughage into cash, yet leave 

 the farm enriched in so doing. The answer is 

 easy. He has told us time after time that it was 

 easier and more profitable not to keep cattle and 

 who will say that in many cases he was not right ? 

 But this was not altogether a true answer for 

 some have made a financial success of the work. 

 What is the trouble ? The man who has failed 

 to make cattle pay has kept the wrong kind of 

 cattle or he has kept them in a way that outraged 

 the laws of live stock husbandry. Keeping the 

 right kind of cattle in the right way always pays 

 and that is the problem of the Kansas farmer of 

 the present and of the future, for only in doing 

 that will he be able to profitably maintain a bal- 

 ance of soil fertility in his favor. 



When a farmer begins to investigate the dif- 

 ferent breeds of cattle with a view of finding 

 the one best suited to his requirements he will 

 remember first of all that he wants an animal 

 that can get almost everything needed for thrift 

 and development from the roughage grown on 

 the farm requiring only a small amount of grain 

 to land it on a good market. He will remember 

 that he needs not a cow that will fill either the 

 requirements for beef or for dairy products 

 alone, but one that will produce calves equal to 

 any breed as beef animals and at the same time 

 give milk and butter for his family and, in the 



