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or at least as nearly without Bates ))lo()([ as pos- 

 sible. He had a large herd S(jntheast, ot (JoiuK-il 

 Grove near Diujla|) and he sold eattle at tair 

 prices all over his section oi' Kansas. Taken as 

 a whole his cattle were good ones and 1 tiiid 

 frequent instances of good lierds descended J'j'oni 

 Norton bred cows. Mi-. Norton was an (d'I'ective 

 advertiser and was one (\t tJie first to j-ecognize 

 the value of the magic term "imjtoi-ted." Follow- 

 ing his ciistom of buying Indls in Canada, Mr. 

 Norton bought British Lion, lie went out to the 

 world as imp. British Lion. Teclinically this 

 title may have been ('oi-re<-t yet its use vi(.)]ated 

 the Shorthorn custom. The Norhm herd \V(.'ath- 

 (.'red the worst of the hard times t)ut ceased to 

 exist a, munl^er (_>f years auo. 



J. B. McAfee, Shawnee County. — Although 

 quite a preacher and consideraljle of a politician, 

 Mr. McAfee was also a good lireeder ol' Short- 

 horns. He did not give his herd tlie puldiidty 

 some lu'eeders gave tlieir cattle, yet it is con- 

 ceded that he produced a, class of big, siiiooth, 

 beefy Shorthorns. Soine ol' llie best things in 

 T. P. Babst's herd wei-e br<'d Ij'om j\icArec cows 

 and one of the cows so Iu'cmI wcnl to tlic Kansas 

 State Agricultural (Jollegc ^\h(M■e slie prodnccd 

 several outstanding show steers, lb AV. iMcA tee, 

 a son, bred ShortlKuais on the i'ai'ni a nmiiWer oi' 

 years after liis J'atlun' rdircal frouj ttie 1)nsiness. 

 The location of the farm made a (-hange in Inisi- 



