14 A HISTORY OP SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



lV)r the year. An account of the one time lie 

 failed to sell at the hig-hest xjrice for tlie year is 

 2-ivcn in a letter as follows: 



ME. AND MRS. W. J. SAYEE 



Cedar Point, Kansas. 

 July 25, 1920. 



Dear Mr. Laude : 



I think I have lold you why 1 failed to receive the 

 top price one year. It was because mine were too heavy. 

 The buyers were wanting tlK.^m A'ci-y small that spring and 

 some 500 pound 8. M. S. hcifei-s s(]ld a little liig'her than 

 my Shorthorns, but 1lie ShortliDnis bi'iinght nmny more 

 dollars. .Se\'eral times I ha\'(.' boiiglit flie very l.iest Here- 

 fords 1 could buy and fed them with my own and at no 

 time did any of them gain as nnicli as the Slioi-thorns and 

 only on om:' 0(;casioii \vere> tliey good enough to sell with 

 them. 



Sincerely, 



W. J. SAYRE. 



