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Show highest one submitted. His dream of obtaining purebred ewes, however, was realized when his bid topped the next high one by twenty-five cents per head. He soon became aware that even though he had acquired a fine nucleus for the improvement program that had been germinating in his mind for a long time, there was much more to it than he had anticipated. In order to properly launch his new purebred business, he was determined to buy only the best rams for use in his flock-and they were expensive. Also the new venture would require more land than he then possessed. Aside from his small acreage in the Bottoms, he owned only the 20 acres of Stansfield property he had bought in 1906. After fencing it with good netting wire he had used it as pasture, but the location had proved to be unsuitable to his needs. According to his records, he sold that twenty acres in 1915 for just what he had paid for it. Also, in 1915, his brother Frank decided to sell his portion of the Bottoms land and John K bought it since it joined his own piece there. Some available land in the hills west of Indianola interested him as a possible spring grazing ground. He obtained the first piece of it for $1.25 an acre, the next for $2.00-and still later, he paid $5.00 for the remaining acreage that was for sale. For hill brush country that was considered to be a very good price. The purchase of the total 102 |