Show Buying Cows Instead of aCar a aCar aCar Car Leads Farmer to Success F. F L. L Irish Insh By NtA NEA Service OWOSSO Aus Aug 27 Sixty Sixty jears ean old 1 Us is farm mortgaged oft the and Imd no no Immediate immediate prospect of tre tt-e mort mort- mortgage mortgage gage ge being lifted was the situa situa- situation situation situation tion in which F F. L L. Irish a farmer living south of Owosso found himself him him- himself himself self 11 years ago Today at 71 71 he has the farm paid for and is Independent The fact act that he bought two pure-bred pure I Guernsey cattle Instead of an nn au au- automobile automobile automobile explains It all all he says In these 11 years ears Irish has hai become be become be- be become come one of the best Known knOWl of ot the smaller Guernsey breeders Inthe in inthe Inthe the United States S tes and sells hundreds of dollars worth of ot calves and young joung stock His net profit In the first f two years from O the h two If st original I I cows in his herd e was 1890 I Now he has 15 IS head in his herd herdIn In 1916 Irish and his wife had discussed buying an automobile despite the fact that they were In debt Then Irish read of two pure pure- purebred purebred purebred bred cows cons for sale and suggested that the cows might be a better In Investment tn- tn vestment Mrs Irish agreed ani he bought the cattle for His neighbors threw up their hands when they heard of ot the prIce Irish let them talk Two years later he began showing the cattle and their offspring at state and county fairs and finally he sold the two t cows for When he came back home he had 1890 in prize money and the price of ot the cows He paid off the mortgage on the farm and went In Into In- In Into Into to business on a larger scale He bought a priced high-priced bull bulJ bulland bulland and placed him at the head of his herd Since then he has been rais ras- a F 1 A 3 I I F. F L L. IRISH ing cattle for which there has b been beena en ena a demand from many parts of ot the United States Recently he bought another bull May Royals Royal's Prince from the famous J J. J C C. Penney herd the dam I of ot which sold for The value of Irish's Irish s herd now is s Is' Is several thousand dollars |