A IIISTOUY OF SILOKTIIOKNH IN KANSAS 3tJl 



excellent results. ![<■ lias just pui'cliased a first- 

 class youuti' l»iill whicli completes his herd. 



JACK8()X COUNTY 



Ed Stegelin, Straight Creek. — Few, if any, 

 Kansas Shorthorn l)re('ders ai'e l»etter known 

 than Ed tSte.u'olin. He has heen a fixture on the 

 hiiX show circuits for a n\nnl3er of yeai's and as 

 a winner he has excelled pronhnent exliil)itors 

 and has carried off man}' 1)lue and imrple ri1> 

 hons. It was about ten years a,L!,-o that I first 

 met Mr. Ste_u'elin at the Topeka fair. He was 

 thei'e with a string of liis cattle and tlie regular- 

 ity with which he took second and third places 

 was almost striking. He said little while aAvards 

 were being ph\ced Init after tlie show he re- 

 marked "When I go out to show again, I will 

 have cattle that can win first place." Pie meant 

 it and lie c-arried out the resolve. 



At Mr. Stegelin 's sale in 1918 tlie show lierd 

 was dispersed and since then no showing has 

 been done. At the time of my visit to the farm in 

 •July 1919 there were about forty females in the 

 lierd and it was a rare treat to lorik them over. 

 Half of them are 1j\' the man.y times grand cham- 

 pion bull, T]'ue Sultan, and every one of tliese 

 True Sultan heifei'S I saw was not (jnl\' Ihg lint 

 was also finislied from end to end. The other 

 twentA' cows are from excellent ancestry. Rose- 

 dale Charity is ont of a dam b;r Prince Imperial, 



