J. C. Robison
Towanda, Kansas
About 1920

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.