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John Frye, Independence. Mr. Frye is one of 

 the men who by reason of environment is able to 

 secure great results in the production of live 

 stock. His location on a farm with excellent pas- 

 ture and heavy crops of alfalfa and forage, is 

 ideal. Furthermore, Mr. Frye is equipped by 

 years of training in farming and he has had 

 almost a life association with Shorthorns. Mrs. 

 Frye is a daughter of one of the old Shorthorn 

 families of Iowa and was a near neighbor of pro- 

 minent Shorthorn breeders. Both Mr. and Mrs. 

 Frye are active physically and mentally and have 

 unbounded enthusiasm for the work. "We have 

 been wheating it and getting this high priced al- 

 falfa off these war times and have neglected our 

 cattle," Mr. Frye said to me, and results proved 

 the correctness of his assertion. 



Never-the-less, the Frye cattle are worthy of 

 more than passing notice. There are now eight- 

 een good females in the herd, nearly all de- 

 scended from a Potts Emma cow, Lady Emma 

 by Ingle Lad, purchased from H. M. Hill some 

 years ago. This cow, in common with most 

 Ingle Lad cows, was a great milker and 

 her descendants in the herd are a splen- 

 did lot of cows of .good size that would 

 excite the admiration of even a dairyman, 

 yet they are of true Shorthorn type and repre- 

 sent the class of cattle needed by the average 

 farmer on a small farm who must produce both 



