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share of the credit for the celebrity attained by this 

 splendidly maintedned establishment. At no other 

 Hereford-breeding farm in America has there ever 

 been made a more effective standing presentation 

 of the breed. It mattered not when one went to 

 Shadeland. It was a show place any day of the 

 year. Mr. Lewis was ably assisted in his work by 

 Tom Andrews, an Englishman who always rendered 

 efficient help in connection with the training of the 

 show cattle. Tom Waters, a brother of George 

 Waters, one of the most famous of the old-time 

 western herdsmen, also worked under Mr. Lewis, 

 having in especial charge the beautiful herd of 

 breeding covs so long the admiration of Shadeland 

 visitors.* 



•At this wrltins (1914) Mr. Lewis, long since retired, still 

 lives near Lafayette. Although In feeble health, at the age of 

 four-score years, the veteran cattleman looks back over a long 

 life well spent among the animals to which he was so ardently 

 devoted, and dreams of the days when his pets were the pride of 

 the countryside. 



