406 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



though he keeps only a few and uses them to pro- 

 duce milk and butter for the family, they had as 

 well be good milking Shorthorns. He plans to 

 stay in the business, using the Shorthorn cows 

 as outlined above, and expects to produce pure 

 bred cattle much more profitably than grades. 



JEFFERSON COUNTY 

 H. E. Huber, Meriden. "I was born on thi^s 

 farm and have lived here all my life and my shoes 

 have seldom been free from Shorthorn fertil- 

 izer/' Mr. Huber told me not long ago. In 1884, 

 when eighteen years old, he began the business 

 on his own account and he now has a herd of 

 nearly sixty females. They are medium in size 

 and smooth, with quality. The young stock is 

 well fed, better than in the past and as a result 

 more size will be attained in the future. 



The show ring has not tempted Mr. Huber 

 often but in 1918 and again in 1919 he took a few 

 head to Valley Falls and both years won the 

 female championship. He was a contributor to 

 the Hiawatha sale in 1919 and to the 1919 Ameri- 

 can Royal sale. Three choicely bred cows were 

 added to the herd by purchase in 1919. Several 

 public sales have been held in these thirty-five 

 years and the herd has become well known 

 through a large part of the state. 



There are cows in the herd that in point of 

 merit and breeding would be a credit almost 



