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thduuli lie keeps mily a I'cw and uses tlicin to pro- 

 duce uiilk aud Initter foi' the faunly, tliey had as 

 well lie udod uiilking 81iortliorus. He plans to 

 stay in Ihe Inisiness, usIiil;,' the Shorthorn rows 

 as outlired altove, and ex})eets t<» produce imve 

 bred cattle uuieii more profitaldy than yrades. 



JEFFERSON COUNTY 

 H. E. Huber, Meriden. — "I was liorn on this 

 farm and have lived here all my life and my shoes 

 have seldom been free fr<im Shorthorn fertil- 

 izer,'" Mr. Huber told me not long ago. In 1884, 

 when eighteen years old, he began the business 

 (lu his own account and he now has a herd of 

 nearly sixty females. They are medium in size 

 and smooth, with quality. The young sto(^'k is 

 well fed, 1 tetter than in the past and as a resi'dt 

 more size will he attained in the futui'e. 



The show ring has nut tempted Mr. Huixr 

 often but in 1918 and again in 1919 he took a few 

 head to A^alley Falls and both yeai's won the 

 female championship. He was a c(uitril)utor T*^ 

 the Hiawatha sale in 1919 and to the 1919 Ameri- 

 can Royal sale. Three choicely bred cows were 

 added to the herd l\v ])urchase in 1919. Several 

 pul)lic sales liave lieeu held in these thirty-fi^■e 

 years and ihe herd has liecome well known 

 through a large })art of the state. 



Thei'e ai'e cows in the herd that in point of 

 merit and lireedini; would be a credit almost 



