A HISTORY OP SHOKTHOENS IN KANSAS 135 



from a small outlay can be established a herd 

 that even iii a iew ycai's will make a man com- 

 paratively wealthy. In 1905 he closed out his 

 farm business after starting both his sons and 

 a son-in-law with Sliorthorns from his herd. 

 A grandson, Henry B. Bayer, a graduate of the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College, living three 

 miles southwest of Manhattan, is a promising 

 young breeder and several other grandsons are 

 now students at the college. 



H. (jr. Slavens, also of Woodson county, pro- 

 duced Shorthorns from 1895 to 1912 when he 

 was forced to discontinue because of failing 

 health. Dr. Slavens was fortunate in the selec- 

 tion of his foundation stock having bought from 

 a good Iowa herd at a time when fifty dollars 

 would buy a ver\' choice cow. He also made a hit 

 in the purchase of the bull Red Gauntlet by 

 Grodo}'. Dr. Slavens was a Shorthorn enthus- 

 iast, a good feeder, and a close student and had 

 he I'ctained his health he would have made a great 

 success of the breeding business. The herd was 

 dis])ersed in 1912, five excellent heifers going 

 t(i Hall Bros, of Allen county. 



F. H. Conger of Yates Center was another 

 Woodson county man who developed a large 

 herd. His foundation stock was bred hy H. J. 

 Masters of jSTel^raska and tiie cows purchased 

 were sired by St. Valentine 12th, an excellent 

 son of St. Valentine. Mr. Conger made a 



