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from a small outlay can be established a herd 

 that even in a few years will make a man com- 

 paratively wealthy. In 1905 he closed out his 

 farm business after starting both his sons and 

 a son-in-law with Shorthorns from his herd. 

 A grandson, Henry B. Bayer, a graduate of the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College, living three 

 miles southwest of Manhattan, is a promising 

 young breeder and several other grandsons are 

 now students at the college. 



H. G. Slavens, also of Woodson county, pro- 

 duced Shorthorns from 1895 to 1912 when he 

 was forced to discontinue because of failing 

 health. Dr. Slavens was fortunate in the selec- 

 tion of his foundation stock having bought from 

 a good Iowa herd at a time when fifty dollars 

 would buy a very choice cow. He also made a hit 

 in the purchase of the bull Red Gauntlet by 

 Godoy. Dr. Slavens was a Shorthorn enthus- 

 iast, a good feeder, and a close student and had 

 he retained his health he would have made a great 

 success of the breeding business. The herd was 

 dispersed in 1912, five excellent heifers going 

 to Hall Bros, of Allen county. 



F. H. Conger of Yates Center was another 

 Woodson county man who developed a large 

 herd. His foundation stock was bred by H. J. 

 Masters of Nebraska and the cows purchased 

 were sired by St. Valentine 12th, an excellent 

 son of St. Valentine. Mr. Conger made a 



