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iiess advantageous and a dairy herd is now sup- 

 plA'iiig mi 11^ from tlie old establislniient. There 

 is still a, Sliortliorn l)reeder, and a good one, in 

 the family, I1;ut\- T. P^»rl)es, a grandson. 



C. W. Taylor, Dickinson County. — John Tay- 

 lor, father of (_). W. Taylor, was a Cincinnati 

 merchant. He tra^^'eled horseback over Kansas 

 in 1872 and bonglit a large ti'act of land in Di('k- 

 inson county. He made up his mind that any 

 dry land on which prairie grass W(_)uld grow as 

 high as his head when he was seated on a horse 

 would grow an}'thing and he let that be the test. 



Mr. Taylor ga\'e ea(/h of his children a section 

 of the land with the injunction to hustle for a 

 living. .I]esides the land G. W. Taylor received 

 eight Shorthorn cows })urchased from the Lin- 

 wood ])ci'd and the l^idl Vandal used l)y Coh 

 Hai'ris. From tliis start the Tayloi- herd grew 

 until it became one of the largest in Kansas, 

 fre(|uently munbering 300 head and its own- 

 er became comparatively wealth}'. The herd 

 received good farm care, no effort lieing 

 made to produce the outstanding. Good Itnlls 

 were bought and a lieavy western and local 

 trade followed. 



D. L. Dawdy & Co., Atchison County. — A firm 

 consisting of I). Jj. Dawdy, J. "\V. Dawdy, and 

 Walter Ijattimer, all of Al)l)ingdon, Illinois, 

 bought the Shannon Hill Farm and Shorthorns 

 of Governor Glick, November 1, 1891. D. L. 



