258 A HISTORY OP SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



calves and a profitable amount of milk. This 

 line of work will be continued. Thoughtful 

 people everywhere recognize that on high priced 

 land every edge must cut if anything like a rea- 

 sonable profit is to be made in farming and this 

 plan of Mr. Babbit's with good milking Short- 

 horns instead of scrubs is rapidly gaining in 

 favor. 



BUTLER COUNTY 



Park E. Salter, Wichita. This is one of the 

 leading herds in the entire central West and its 

 rise to prominence has been very rapid. The 

 farm upon which the herd has been kept until 

 this time is twenty miles southeast of Wichita 

 and consists of about 1000 acres of excellent 

 limestone blue stem land. Good crops of alfalfa 

 are being grown. Mr. Salter has recently bought 

 two farms of 160 acres each, close together, 

 lying ten miles east of Wichita and the three 

 farms will be used in the growing of Shorthorns, 

 the cattle being divided to suit the occasion. It 

 would be difficult to find better natural re- 

 sources for successfully carrying on the work 

 than are found here all kinds of pasture, an 

 abundance of running water of the best quality, 

 fertile fields that will grow big crops of forage, 

 with plenty of sheltered locations in belts of tim- 

 ber to furnish shade in summer and comfort in 

 winter. The improvements already on the farms 



