With the finding of Parisien, Travers' main mission was now accomplished, but he was still full of his Swiss dreams. He needed more time in Switzerland. He missed his Saturday night train to Berne, so he left Paris for Berne on Sunday morning, August 7, arriving in time to attend his evening religious services in the same chapel he had attended one week previous.
The week of August 8-12 was spent in Switzerland. Travers wrote that he spent his time
… making arrangements for the future, contacting all the government and export people possible, as well as their veterinarians. My inquiries for top quality cattlemen in Switzerland to do a selection job for us in the future led me to two persons—Ernst Aegerter, who had for most of his life headed up the export of cattle out of Switzerland, and a Mrs. Ida Hofer, who was a real cattlewoman in her own right, being of a famous cattle breeding family in Switzerland and also married into one.1In a letter to his chidren under date of October 31, 1971, Travers, a deeply religious man who believed in God's governance in the lives of all people, wrote of this experience in selecting Parisien:
[God] led me to the right people in Switzerland, in France, unbeknown to them He influenced men to organize trips for me to see cattle. He gave me ideas and understanding of Cattle and the attendant business far beyond my natural powers. In the past He prepared through mens management of Genetics a Bull that started the biggest revolution for good in the cattle industry on this continent.---------/
1. "Selecting the First Canadian Simmentals," by Travers Smith, Simmemtal Shield, October 1970, pp. 8-10, quote from page 9.
