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Wichita Show in 1920. The next day Park E. 

 Salter offered twenty-five copies of the future 

 Kansas Shorthorn history to the county having 

 second largest membership and, on behalf of the 

 association, the secretary offered $10 in cash for 

 the county third in line. The membership con- 

 test was started December 15, and resulted in 

 first prize going to Allen county, second prize to 

 Montgomery county and third prize to Osage 

 county. 



The association sale was held in the pavilion at 

 the college, consignments having been made by 

 twenty-six leading breeders of the state, all of 

 whose herds are given space in this book. A top 

 price of $3900 was secured for College Duchess 

 2d, a six-year-old roan cow by Matchless Dale 

 that sold with a white bull calf by Magruder at 

 foot. The pair was consigned by the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College and went to Sni-A- 

 Bar Farm, Grain Valley, Missouri. Tomson 

 Bros, sold the highest priced bull at $1025 to 

 Meall Bros., Cawker City and Jacob Nelson of 

 Clay county was a close second with a white year- 

 ling that went to a Leavenworth county neigh- 

 borhood Shorthorn breeders association. 



Immediately after the sale the annual meeting 

 of the association was held, when officers were 

 elected as follows: President, John R. Tomson, 

 Dover ; Vice-president, Park E. Salter, Wichita ; 

 Secretary-treasurer, G. A. Laude, Humboldt. 



