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Kansas City market is not only an accomplished 

 feeder but he is also a breeder of the first class. 

 Mr. Sayre did that, not only once, but he did it 

 nine times out of ten years he has been feeding 

 his calf crop. It was not a load selected from 

 many, but these wonderful market toppers were 

 the entire crop, culls and all. No breeder within 

 my knowledge has to his credit a higher accom- 

 plishment than has Mr. Sayre for he has gone to 

 -the court of last resort and has received for his 

 cattle and for his methods the strongest possible 

 endorsement, Most of these calves were grades, 

 some were pure breds, probably the culls of both 

 sexes and the reader can imagine what the choice 

 ones would be when developed. 



A new order of things has arisen. The nursery 

 which furnished the material for the conquest of 

 the beef market of the Southwest has now turned 

 into a different channel. The grades have been 

 disposed of and the least desirable of the pure 

 breds have gone into other herds. The forty- 

 five females now on the farm are such as to meet 

 the exacting requirements of the owner. This 

 means that they are not only first-class individu- 

 als but also that they carry through their ances- 

 try an inheritance of merit and uniformity rich 

 enough to almost guarantee they will reproduce 

 their kind. This is an inestimable advantage to 

 the buyer of breeding stock for he can be sure 

 before hand of the kind of calves he will get from 



