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dious barns were provided, and provision made for 

 many roomy boxes for the breeding bulls, calving 

 cows or animals in training for the shows. A 

 27,000-gallon reservoir, with pipes to pastures and 

 paddocks, afforded a supply of good water. The 

 sum of $6,000 was expended in improving the road- 

 way leading to the farm. Fences and buildings 

 were immaculate with whitewash. The lots were 

 graveled. In later years, when the herd under the 

 management of "Uncle John" Lewis was the best- 

 groomed and best-advertised collection of Here- 

 fords in North America, Shadeland was indeed the 

 Mecca for all lovers of good white faces. 



Mr. Earl was a wealthy merchant of Lafayette 

 owning large tracts of farming land and Mr. Stuart 

 a younger man of fine attainments, a successful 

 lawyer of the same city. Mr. Earl was engaged in 

 farming and cattle-feeding operations at Earl Park 

 in association with Mr. A. D. Eaub. They had a 

 good lot of Shorthorns at one time, but Mr. Earl 

 had noted that his friends and neighbors, Messrs. 

 Seabury & Sample, were topping the Chicago mar- 

 kets frequently with Hereford steers.* After feed- 

 ing out a few on his 'own place he became satisfied 

 that the "white faces" were destined to succeed. 

 He had seen something of the home-bred cattle of 

 that time, but knowing that they were as yet in but 

 limited supply he opened a correspondence with 



'Seabury & Sample at a later date built up a epod herd of 

 pediirree Herefords. Mr. Seabury lived in the east, Kobert Sam- 

 ple, the active manager, was an extensive cattle feeder whose 

 father had been a pork packer at one time Interested In the busi- 

 ness with C. M. Culbertson. 



