Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Kansas Sightings on Highway 50

I was traveling between Emporia and Newton on Kansas Highway 50 recently and spotted a few interesting things worth stopping and photographing.
The first was an old stone one-room school house, about 35 miles east of Newton. The school was built in 1896 for District 34.



Later, west of Strong City I saw what I thought were Texas Longhorn cattle in a field. I stopped and realized they were some other kind of cattle. A sign said the large building up the drive was the Clover Cliff Ranch. I believe from research I did on the net that these are Ankole Watusi, originally from Africa. A very interesting story about these cattle is at 




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