364 A .msToiiv ()!<' Kiioiri'jKiKNS in Kansas 



Claude Lovett, Neal.* — M i'. Lovett is a };r;uln- 

 atc from the J)(ij)ai'1iii('iit of Agronomy in tli(; 

 Kansas Sialc vVgi-iiuiHui-al (Jollog'c^ lie lias an 

 excellent farm that ])ro(lnc('S alfalfa, and lias 

 2)lenty of limestone i)a,stnre. ilv lief^an farming- 

 on his own a('<-onnt tonr years ago and lias kejit 

 Shoi'thorns siiu-e that tiiiui. His first i)nreliase 

 was niad(i at il. E. iliiher's sak; in 1916 wliei'e he 

 secnred two choice lieil'ers I'l-om which he has 

 ]nade good sales of hulls. A yearling heifer d(!- 

 S('(!nded J'roni ihis jiurcliase was fitted foj- show 

 and won fi]'st honoi-s at several fairs. Suh- 

 se(|nent addiiions were made to the herd at 

 strong i)riees, a lol of four heifers having heen 

 pnrchased in one sal<^ at an avei'age (»f $700. 



Talvcn as a wliole, tlu; hreediiig of this herd is 

 most a('('<']>1ahl(' and inchides some of the 

 popular ltl(M»d lines of Uw. day. The individual 

 niei'it of the foun(lati<tii stock is such as to mal<c 

 if fit for a real Shorthorn hei-d. 'r\iv, hull in use 

 at, the lime of mv visit was S<'otcli Lord, a, s])len- 

 did, liig, iK'el'y rnaii, hi'cd hy J. (j. llohhins ct 8on, 

 sired hy jjord v\\()iidale, one of America's most 

 popuhir hulls, whose get have h(>en selling for c^v- 

 ceediiigly high prices. T]\*' dam of Scotch Tjord 

 |-epreseiils two gre;it hulls, < Hioice (Joods and 

 S])ic.y Jiohin and his second d;iin is imj). (iolden 

 (Jem hy theM.-irr hivd S<'otch Thistle. This hull 

 is .'I, Itreeder of hellers of pronounced (excellence 



• Stuiiuii, 'I' viiy; l,rli,iil , l<;iir('ka. 



