196 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



to grow a Shorthorn herd from a good, though 

 small, beginning and in doing so to gain the nec- 

 essary knowledge and skill required for success, 

 than to be placed in possession of means to buy 

 a Shorthorn herd that he is scarcely qualified to 

 handle properly. 



To the breeders whose names appear in the 

 pages following I desire to express my gratitude 

 for favors rendered. When the present period 

 of reconstruction following the great war has 

 passed, we should, with speculation largely elim- 

 inated, enter upon a period of real Shorthorn 

 improvement such as the people of Kansas have 

 never before known. 



