268 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



grand champion at Denver, the Kansas National, 

 Fort Worth, at innumerable state fairs and at 

 the American Royal was knocked off to Prank 

 Scofield of Texas at $4800. By reason of these 

 prices Mr. Salter now holds the record of having 

 made the highest priced and second highest 

 priced sale of Shorthorns in Kansas; also of 

 selling the highest priced bull and the highest 

 priced cow sold in the state and of producing and 

 selling the highest priced fifteen-month-old bull 

 ever sold in the state. 



John Regier, Whitewater. If you do not 

 know Mr. Regier you should get acquainted with 

 him for he is one of Nature's noblemen. Quiet, 

 unassuming, and conservative he is honest as the 

 mid-June day is long. When he makes a state- 

 ment, it is true. But that is not all. He is a 

 Shorthorn breeder with a record of achievement 

 such as only- a few breeders in Kansas can show. 

 His twenty-five females, with the exception of 

 two, were bred on the farm and most of them 

 are from cows of his own breeding. There is 

 not a second-class animal in the lot. 



It is a uniform herd, nothing extremely large 

 and nothing small, just a herd of good, big, beefy, 

 smooth Shorthorns. Every cow raises her own 

 calf and it grows big and fat. The Regier herd is 

 well fed and well cared for but the feed is not 

 expensive. Ensilage and alfalfa are used with a 

 protein ration for the calves. I saw the cows 



