PART I. 

 INTRODUCING SHORTHORNS 



It is not in human nature to anticipate 

 emergencies. The average man — and we are 

 nearly all a^'erage men — goes along in the regular 

 way until he realizes that he is at "the parting 

 of the ways," when lie rises to the occasion or 

 goes down in defeat. 



The Kansas farmer has come to the parting 

 of the ways. Over the greater portion of the 

 state, in the region of the farm home, he has, 

 with few excei^tions been taking from the soil 

 bountiful crojDS until for natural and well found- 

 ed reasons the old farm is not so kindly in culti- 

 vation, nor so responsive to his efforts as it once 

 was. He has been drawing on his bank account 

 stored in the soil in the shape of fertility, and 

 ha^dng made few if any deposits, his account has 

 run low. He sees the warning signals — harder 

 soil, less resistance to excessively wet or dry sea- 

 sons and a lighter growth of vegetation that tell 

 of less humus and less available fertility — and he 

 is heeding the call now as never before. 



There is an insistent demand for live stock 

 on the farm. Why is it that only when brought 

 face to face with necessity the farmer, both 

 large and small, is planning to make his holding 

 a stock farm? A cattle farm — for it is recog- 



