A lilSTOUy OF SnoK'I'lKlKXS IN KANSAS I'd 



days they were on full feed. Tliey were sold at 

 an average age of l)Tit little over twenty months 

 and )H-onght on the Kansas (Jity market $224.60 

 each. 



Another Shorthorn Achievement. — In the fall 

 and early winter of 1918 H. 0. Peek iSi Son, of 

 Wellington castrated five out of twelve hull 

 ealves, these like Mr. Hill's having heen the (jnes 

 undesirable for bulls. They were calved from 

 September to December. They were given a 

 little grain while sucking the c(nvs during tlie 

 winter, were weaned in the spring and ran on 

 pasture the next summer. They had ac^cess to a 

 shed and alfalfa hay and received a very small 

 grain ration. They were on full feed a little 

 more than sixty days and were sold at an average 

 of sixteen months at the Pe(/k farm for $119.70. 

 This sale was made on the low market last Man-li. 

 These cases show the value of pure bred SlKji't- 

 Iiorn cows as producers of beef cattle. (_)nly little 

 grain is required for this class of cattl<\ 



Shorthorns Feed Well for Baby Beef.— W. J. 

 Sayre of Cedar Point, Chase couut\', now a well 

 known Itreeder of Shorthorns, Avas until recently 

 a breeder of Shorthorn calves for Ix'cf. These 

 calves were nearly all of his own lu'eeding from 

 high grade and pure bi'ed cows. During a peri( id 

 of tcu years jNIr. Sayre fed aiuuially a carlnad 

 of these calves and nine years out of the ten he 

 topped the Kansas City mai'ket on l»aby l)eeA'es 



