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When pasture is hired it is generally bought at $3 per head. The gain per steer runs from 350 to 400 pounds for the feeding season.
Most of the farmers keep a small herd of native grade cattle, but an increasingly large number have thoroughbred cattle and hogs. The raising of pure-bred animals for the market is a mat- ter of education and the people of Lincoln County are finding out that it pays better to raise them for the ordinary market than to raise the best grade stock obainable. The stock-breed- ers find a ready market for their animals at home, but some of them who have taken prizes at the State fairs have filled orders from all parts of the country.
Horse-raising is also an important industry in Lincoln County, and there are several men in the west side of the county en- gaged in this business. The following is a partial list of thor- oughbred stock breeders in the county :
A. J. Hinkley, Milo, Poland-Chinas.
Thomas Collins, Lincoln, Poland-Chinas.
John Black, Barnard, Poland-Chinas.
Henderson Howe, Barnard, Poland-Chinas.
E. A. Woods, Lincoln, Poland-Chinas.
Grant Crawford, Lincoln, Poland-Chinas.
F. L. Brown, Sylvan Grove, Herefords.
C. H. Errebo, Denmark, Herefords. James Williams, Sylvan Grove, Polled Angus.
H. P. Bacon, Sylvan Grove, Poland-Chinas and Shorthorns. Chas. Tilton, Lincoln, Poland-Chinas.
Henry Aufdemberge, Lincoln, Shorthorns.
G. K. Smith, Lincoln, Shorthorns and Red Polls.
C. H. Williams, Sylvan Grove, Shorthorns.
Lee Skiles, Sylvan Grove, Herefords.
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PEACH BLOSSOM 224.P
P. O. Milo, Kansas
5 Miles North of Beverly.
This Cut shows one of A. J. Hinck- ley's Hogs. Mr. Hinckley has been a breeder of Po- land China Hogs since 1901. He always has young stock for sale at reasonable prices.
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V. A. PLYMAT, SHORTHORNS.
Mr. Plymat who has been in the stock busi- ness for five years has a herd of twenty-five head. He believes it is better to keep stock in good growing and utility condition, so has avoid- ed the practice of fattening his animals for shows. His stock is low, blocky and short-legged. Mr. Plymat owns about a section of land three miles north of Barnard and sells all his stock from this farm. He makes no special sales, but farmers and others wishing good, useful animals, will find them always in salable condition at the right prices at the Plymat Farm, three miles north of Barnard.
C. H. ERREBO, Thoroughbred Hereford Cattle, Established in 1902.
Head of the Herd HARRISON. Cows-BELINDA and ELSIE.
Mr. Errebo has a fine herd of 100 head. He began by buying 40 head of Whittaker's best animals. The cat- tle are raised for sale purposes and sold from the farm. Stock already for sale .- C. H. ERREBO, Denmark, Kans.
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The Evolution of Business Methods
The business methods of pre-historic days consisted mostly in trading and stealing. The Pawnee Indians employed the latter to a considerable extent, and did it in a businesslike way. J. R. Mead tells of a party of them being out on a raid and on running into a party of white men began to swap knives, thereby getting into a quarrel. Their chief rode up and restored order, saying: "You are out to steal ponies and not to raise quarrels."
Another primitive business method was trickery. An indian came to "Uncle Mart" Hendrickson and asked to buy some meal. As Uncle Mart measured it out the Indian took off his shirt and had the meal poured onto it. Then he said he didn't have any money. He knew that nobody would want the meal after it be- ing in the dirty, sweaty shirt, so picked it up and walked off chuckling.
But these primitive business methods have passed away and so have the people that used them, before the tides of civiliza- tion and system. In their place have come new methods which are learned by a thorough scientific training. No one expects 10 get through the world on native ability alone, or to live on his wits. He knows that in the present highly organized com- mercial world, he must have a special education to prepare him for filling his place. So he selectes an institution which makes a specialty of training men for business life, and one which has years of success behind it to recommend it and justify its meth- ods-the Topeka Business College for instance, whose graduates, thousands in number, go out daily from the school to responsible, well-paying positions all over the United States, many occupying some of the most important positions in large business establish- ments and receiving salaries which would make a king look like thirty cents. Still others have large business establishments of their own. The graduates of the Topeka Business College who are at work in the Santa Fe offices in Topeka alone number 182. Scores of others have gone to the Santa Fe offices in other cities from Chicago to San Francisco. This is the largest list of students from any school in any one office in the United States and is the highest endorsement for the methods of this school.
Not only are all graduates placed in positions but many of the undergraduates have been found capable of performing the most difficult kinds of office work and one hundred and twenty such persons have been placed in good positions during the past year.
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To Late to be Classified
I saw a man the other day who had three ears of corn each as long as his forearm. That's pretty good corn. Back in the '80s a Lincoln County woman living over on Spring Creek used to eat ten that size every day for dinner.
When the body of John Lyden was taken from the well after being there three weeks it was taken to the court house. That was the winter after grasshopper year and there was grain and meal piled up which was being doled out to the destitute. The body was placd among these supplies. A man, Davis by name, said he thought it ought not to have been put there. Mr. Priest spoke up:
"Well, all that ails you is that you're not hungry enough. I've seen the day when I would have rolled that fellow over to get meal under him."
In the church history, which faited to be included in this book, there is an account of how "Uncle Dan" Day went to church and instead of going in stood on the outside and knocked on the door.
Uncle Martin Hendrickson, one of our oldest settlers, has lived through a great deal. Some years ago his wife gave him some carbolic acid by mistake and he drank a large amount of it. Ev- erybody thought he would die, but Uncle Mart, having lived through all the terrors incident to pioneer days was not to be killed by such a small thing as a dose of carbolic acid. He ral- lied and was much better the next day, and to the surprised re marks of the neighbors the doctor answered: "You would have to cut Uncle Mart's head off and hide it before he would die."
Pioneers of Lincoln County used to practice economy. It was the cardinal virtue in those days. The following story is told
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of a prominent man who lived on the east side of the county. Mr. H. used to make molasses and had a pair of pants which he always wore when into such a job. The pants got so stiff with molasses and dirt that they would stand alone. After the sea- son was over he had vinegar to sell and the neighbors bought liberally. One day a family, Hughes by name, had a harvest hand to dinner. Mr. Huges passed the vinegar but his man did not take any, whereupon Mr. Hughes remarked, "Have some vin- egar, I guess it is pretty good."
"It ought to be," replied the other. "It was made of the soak- in's of Mr. H.'s molasses pants."
There was a scare sent out over the State that the sunflowers were about to be exterminated. Not in Lincoln County. A wo- man living on the east side of the county planted some climbing beans beside sunflower stalks. After the beans had begun climb)- ing up the stalks there came a good rain. The next morning she found that the sunflowers had grown so fast that they had jerked the beans out of the ground and the fresh, moist earth was still clining to their roots.
Many funny things have happened in the Lincoln County courts, some of which are not dignified enough for print even in this book, but here is one which happened in the year 1872 which will past muster.
Lawyer: "Did Smith strike Brown with malicious intent?"
Witness: "Su-r-r?"
Lawyer: "Did Smith strike Brown with malicious intent?"
Witness: "No, su-r-r, he hit him with a cottonwood limb."
A few people in Lincoln County have committed suicide, some by drowning, some by hanging, and some by shooting ,but a cer- tain very original man stuck his nose in his ear and blew his head off.
We heard a man say the other day that he would believe any kind of a cyclone story. Here is one for him: A cyclone once lifted and carried half a mile a man who was so fat that on coming down his shadow killed a full-grown buffalo.
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Table of Contents
Barnard.
83
Beverly.
88
Building the Courthouse
47
Coming of the White Men
14
County Organization.
43
County Seat Contest
44
Dedication.
3
Denmark.
96
Evolution of Business Methods
121
Geology of Lincoln County
7
Grasshoppers.
49
Growth and Development
50
Indian Troubles of 1868
30
Kansas Christian College.
104
Lincoln.
65
Newspaper History.
110
On the Roll of Honor
56
Organizations.
107
Prairie Fires.
51
Pre-historic.
10
Pennsylvania Store.
68 5
Raid of 1869
37
Railroad History.
51
Resources.
114
School History.
97
Settlements. .
21
Some Old Settlers
61
Stock Business.
117
Sylvan Grove.
79
The Cleary Case
52
The Lyden Murder
49
The Medicine Man
23
The Moffit Boys.
18
The Mulberry Scrap
36
Too Late to be Classified.
122
Vesper.
92
Preface.
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