478 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



knowledge and experience, as well as a suit- 

 able location to enable Mm to score a signal 

 success with Ms cattle. 



MITCHELL COUNTY 



Meall Bros., Cawker City Meall Bros, have 

 one of the large, well known herds of the state 

 and their operations cover a period of twenty- 

 five years. The cattle receive the constant atten- 

 tion of the three brothers who comprise the firm. 

 They have provided all facilities for handling 

 cattle in a practical, economical and careful 

 way and their system results in the production of 

 young stock so raised as to do well for the pur- 

 chaser and yet to have sufficient development. 

 Further improvements are being considered and 

 these mature men of successful experience, still 

 in the prime of life, will do things in the future 

 that will count for Shorthorn advancement not 

 only in Mitchell county but in a larger territory. 



The Meall herd is a good one as a whole, but it 

 lacks somewhat in uniformity both in the essen- 

 tial and in the less important points. This is 

 doubtless largely due to the fact that in recent 

 years several excellent cows from different 

 sources have been added. It is from these, rather 

 than from the old foundation of a quarter of a 

 century back, that the herd of the future will 

 be built. The use of bulls of uniform type 



