Whitewater Stock Farm is a magnificent
body of land, 1040 acres and every acre except that in the bed of the
Whitewater River will grow first-class alfalfa. A blue grass pasture
that would look good to a native of Kentucky or Nodaway county, Missouri,
was being grazed upon April 29 by a Shorthorn to the acre and they had been
getting all the grass they wanted for some time. In addition to the
elegant bungalow, forty by seventy feet, used as a home for the Robison
family, there are four other houses good enough to rent for $wt or more in
the ordinary Kansas town. These houses are occupied by the men
employed in the operation of the farm. As they are all married men and
are being well compensated for their services, I suspect Mr. Robison is not
having labor troubles. The barns are more extensive and better
constructed than those I have found elsewhere. If this farm is used to
its capacity in the production of Shorthorns, one can only wonder at the
possibilities of the herd in the future.
Source: Kansas Shorthorns, A
History of the Breed in the State from 1857 to 1920, G. A. Laude, 1921, Kansas
Shorthorn Breeders Association Note: This book has no other
genealogical information about the subjects of the photo.
