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KANSAS SHORTHORNS

A HISTORY GF THE BREED IN
THE STATE FROM 1857 TO 1990

By. Pole

Secretary Kansas Shorthorn
Breeders Association

COMPILED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION
OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION OF THE
KANSAS SHORTHORN BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

Committee Personnel

PARK E. SALTER, Wichita, Pres. Kansas Shorthorn Breeders Assn.
JOHN R. TOMSON, Dover, Pres. American Shorthorn Breeders Assn.
W. A. COCHEL, Manhattan, Field Rep. Am. Shorthorn Breeders Assn.
H. M. HILL, Lafontaine, Leading Breeder in Southeastern Kansas.
SEN. FREMONT LEIDY, Leon, Extensive Breeder of Shorthorns.

THE LAUDE PRINTING COMPANY
IOLA, KANSAS

1920)
1'°72037

Published by authority and under the

direction of the Kansas Shorthorn

Breeders Association and based on in-

formation received during 1919 and
1920,

Copyright 1921
BY G. A. LAUDE
PART I.

INTRODUCING SHORTHORNS

It is not in human nature to anticipate
emergencies. The average man—and we are
nearly all average men—goes along in the regular
way until he realizes that he is at ‘‘the parting
of the ways,’’ when he rises to the occasion or
goes down in defeat.

The Kansas farmer has come to the parting
of the ways. Over the greater portion of the
state, in the region of the farm home, he has,
with few exceptions been taking from the soil
bountiful crops until for natural and well found-
ed reasons the old farm is not so kindly in eulti-
vation, nor so responsive to his efforts as it once
was. He has been drawing on his bank account
stored in the soil in the shape of fertility, and
having made few if any deposits, his account has
run low. He sees the warning signals—harder
soul, less resistance to excessively wet or dry sea-
sons and a lighter growth of vegetation that tell
of less humus and less available fertility—and he
is heeding the call now as never before.

There is an insistent demand for live stock
on the farm. Why is it that only when brought
face to face with necessity the farmer, both
large and small, is planning to make his holding
a stock farm? A cattle farm—for it is recog-
6 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

nized that cattle alone have the capacity to turn
the big crops of roughage into cash, yet leave
the farm enriched in so doing. The answer is
easy. He has told us time after time that it was
easier and more profitable not to keep cattle and
who will say that in many cases he was not right?
But this was not altogether a true answer for
some have made a financial suecess of the work.
What is the trouble?) The man who has failed
to make cattle pay has kept the wrong kind of
cattle or he has kept them in a way that outraged
the laws of live stock husbandry. Keeping the
right kind of cattle in the right way always pays
and that is the problem of the Kansas farmer of
the present and of the future, for only in doing
that will he be able to profitably maintain a bal-
ance of soil fertility in his favor.

When a farmer begins to investigate the dif-
ferent breeds of cattle with a view of finding
the one best suited to his requirements he will
remember first of all that he wants an animal
that can get almost everything needed for thrift
and development from the roughage grown on
the farm requiring only a small amount of grain
to land it on a good market. He will remember
that he needs not a cow that will fill either the
requirements for beef or for dairy products
alone, but one that will produce calves equal to
any breed as beef animals and at the same time
give milk and butter for his family and, in the
7

A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

case of the small farmer, for market also. In
no other breed is found so well this happy com-
bination as in the Shorthorn.

Shorthorn cattle are pre-eminently the great
machine which turns roughage into cash. No
other breed can approach them in availability
for this purpose. It is not so much of a contest
as to what breed of cattle will thrive best on corn,
for as a grain consuming machine the hog will
produce almost double the number of pounds for
each bushel of corn consumed as will the steer—
and for this purpose the American hog is the un-
crowned king of the universe! Shorthorn cattle
with their big, thick, deep bodies and capacious
digestive organs can consume more roughage
and as a result get more pounds of gain daily
from grass and rough feeds than cattle of any
other breed. This means that they can put on the
final pounds of finish for which grain is required
more cheaply than can those of other breeds, for
they do more with the cheap feeds of the farm.
Shorthorn cattle are the great farm cattle for
they have no rivals in utilizing the farm feeds
whether it be for production of beef or for beef
and milk.

The record price for range grass fat steers
is held by grade Shorthorns marketed in Chicago
at $18.00 per ewt. The record price for feeder
cattle is held by Shorthorn steers sold in Denver
at $20.25 per ewt. The greatest net return for a
8 A FISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

earload of steers at the International (except
the grand champion herd the value of which was
enhanced by winning of the ribbon) was secured
from a load of Shorthorns. The International
grand champions carried a large percentage of
Shorthorn blood. The highest prices paid for
steers at the Missouri River markets have gone
to cattle tracing to a Shorthorn foundation. The
additional weight of approximately 200 pounds
on two-year-old steers which carry a large per-
centage of Shorthorn blood is a very important
consideration when cattle sell at prevailing
prices. The heavy loins, broad backs, deep hind-
quarters and natural flesh of the Shorthorn
make them the ideal farm cattle.

In the herd of Shorthorns at the Kansas State
Agricultural College Farm, Manhattan, there
are seven thick-fleshed, broad-hacked, low-set
Scotch cows having milk records averaging con-
siderably in excess of 7,000 pounds of milk per
year. Their calves are of the same individual
conformation and several of them have won
prizes in the beef shows. But this is not all—
these cows were not put to milking until after
they had raised one or more calves. One of them
had nursed her third calf before she was tried as
a milker. Individually they will compare with
the best cows in the leading herds of the country
and no two are bred along the same line. One is
a daughter of Matchless Dale, that sired the win-
A HISTORY OF SHORTELORNS IN KANSAS 9

ning steer herd which the eollege had out two
years. There is something in this double-pur-
pose achievement. The Shorthorn is the farm-
er’s cow.

 

 

 

 

 

MATCHLESS QUEEN 100083
Milk record 8735.1 pounds. Owned by the Kansas Agricultural College.

At the Breeders Sale at Coffeyville, April 4,
1919, twenty Shorthorns from ten months to
four years old, none of them ever in a large crowd
before and many of them hardly halter broke,
were led into Exposition Hall. When surround-
ed by an immense crowd they stood for fifteen
minutes without showing any symptoms of ner-
vousness, and in the sale of nearly 100 head not
10 A HISTORY OF SIORTHORNS IN KANSAS

a single animal behaved in an unbecoming man-
her nor was the emergency post provided for
nervous cattle used once. No untrained and un-
handled cattle of any other breed ever acted so
well. Shorthorn cattle, by reason of their quiet,
gentle disposition are the ideal farm cattle.
More than a century has now passed since
the Shorthorn found its way from the rich val-
leys of England to the United States. During
all this time they have been the popular cattle
for the American farmer. Not only do they
provide more beef than any other breed of cattle
but they also furnish the family with all the milk
and butter needed. After one hundred years
they are firmly established, the great breed for
every section of our country. Other breeds
may be prime favorites in certain localities,
but the Shorthorns are all right everywhere.
Other breeds come and go, but the Shorthorn
goes on forever. They have established them-
selves in the eastern part of our country where
they are unrivaled producers of milk and butter.
From Ohio to Kansas and from Canada to the
Gulf they are firmly established and it is only in
sections where they find any active competition.
They have gone to the ranges of the central West
and Southwest where they became the maternal
ancestry of the range cattle that made Hereford
popularity possible. They are now the popular
beef cattle of the Pacific coast country and have
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 11

no established rivals in that section. What is
it that made all this possible? For answer, look
the Shorthorn over. It is not a breed of extremes
but one which combines the good qualities which

 

 

PRIDE’S BESSIE 206445

The first Seotch cow to be admitted to the advanced registry for
milking Shorthorns. Milk record 9210.5 pounls. Owned
by the Kansas Agricultural College.

are demanded by the farmer, not by the special-
ist; they are not the cows that do one thing only
but they combine size, beef, milk, butter. They
are the one and only great machine that turns
the rough feeds of the farm into ready cash to
the very best advantage.
12 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Shorthorns on The Beef Market.—It is some-
times stated that Shorthorns do not command the
highest market price. This isa mistake. Good,
well finished Shorthorns sell at the highest price
paid. They have topped the Kansas City market
for 1920 as will be seen from the following letter:

Stockyards Station, Kansas City, Mo.
7|15|20.
Mr. G. A. Laude, Secretary,
Humboldt, Kansas.

Dear Sir:

Replying to yours of the 13th beg to say the cattle we
sold for Sni-A-Bar Farms at $17 were the top for their
weight for the year. Some yearlings brought $17.25.

The Sni-A-Bar cattle have always killed very satisfac-
torily and are particularly liked by the Harvey people.

Yours truly,
SWIFT & HENRY,
by J. C. Swift.

A Record.—H. M. Hill, the well known breeder
of Montgomery county, has during the past few
years bought many Shorthorn cows of varying
quality. A few years ago he castrated twenty
bull calves. These calves were the poorer ones
and the off-colored ones from all the cows on the
farm only a few having been of Mr. Hill’s breed-
ing. They were wintered so as to maintain thrift
and a good growth, and during the next summer
were fed only a little grain on pasture. Toward
fall the grain was increased and for the last sixty
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 15

days they were on full feed. They were sold at
an average age of but little over twenty months
and brought on the Kansas City market $224.60
each.

Another Shorthorn Achievement.—In the fall
and early winter of 1918 H. O. Peck & Son, of
Wellington castrated five out of twelve bull
calves, these ike Mi, Hill’s having been the ones
undesivable for bulls. They were calved from
September to December. They were given a
little grain while sucking the cows during the
winter, were weaned in the spring and ran on
pasture the next summer. They had access to a
shed and alfalfa hay and received a very small
grain ration. They were on full feed a little
more than sixty days and were sold at an average
of sixteen months at the Peck farm for $119.70.
This sale was made on the low market last March.
These cases show the value of pure bred Short-
horn cows as producers of bect cattle. Only little
erain is required for this class of cattle.

Shorthorns Feed Well for Baby Beef.—W. J.
Sayre of Cedar Point, Chase county, now a well
known breeder of Shorthornus, was until recently
a breeder of Shorthorn calves for beef. These
calves were nearly all of lis own breeding from
high grade and pure bred cows. During a period
of ten vears Mr. Sayre fed annually a carload
of these calves and nine veat's out of the ten he
topped the Kansas City market on baby beeves
14 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

for the year. An account of the one time he
failed to sell at the highest price for the year is
given ina letter as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

MR. AND MRS. W. J. SAYRE

Cedar Point, Kansas.
July 25, 1920.

Dear Mr. Laude:

I think I have told you why I failed to receive the
top price one year. It was because mine were too heavy.
The buyers were wanting them very small that spring and
some 500 pound 8. M. 8. heifers sold a little higher than
my Shorthorns, but the Shorthorns brought many more
dollars. Several times I have bought the very best Here-
fords I could buy and fed them with my own and at no
time did any of them gain as much as the Shorthorns and
only on one occasion were they good enough to sell with
them.

Sincerely,
W.J.SAYRE.
A HISTORY OF SUORTHORNS IN) KANSAS 15

Shorthorn Show Steers.—Aside from an oe-
casional steer and a few carloads shown by indi-
viduals it has remained for the Kansas State
Agricultural College to carry on the produetion
of show steers. The great success which has at-

tended their efforts has attracted international
attention to Kansas as one of the leading states
to be reckoned with at the big American shows.
The steers shown by the college in recent years
were nearly all sived by the now thirteen-vear-old
Matchless Dale, a bull that has proved himself
one of the great sires of the breed. Jn ordinary
pasture flesh Matchless Dale weighed 2400
pounds and no one ever handled a melHower hide.
His splendid disposition, wouderful quality and
character have won the admiration of every
breeder that has seen him. The record made by
steers sired by him is remarkable. The college
has shown eighteen steers sired by Matchless
Dale that have been placed not lower than third
at the American Roval or International Live
Stoek Shows. At the American Royal they won
two championships, nine fists, seven seconds
and six thirds. At the International they won
one championship, two reserve championships,
six firsts, four seconds and three thirds.

A Notable Carlot From Kansas.—It was in
about 1910 that a ear load of all red vearling
steers found their wav to the American Royal.
They came from near Lancaster in Atchison
16 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

county and proved little less than a national sel-
sation. Their uniformity and general excellence
were remarkable and before the final coutest it
was admitted by all interested parties that they
were the best load of steers on the ground. These
calves were bred and developed by K. G. Gigstad
and were the product of his Shorthorn herd, uow
one among the best in Kansas. As predicted in-
mediately after their arrival, they won every-
thing in sight including the grand championship
over all breeds and they sold at the high price of
the sale.

The McGregor Exhibits.—E. A. McGregor of
Washington county, an extensive feeder of good
cattle, sent two loads of Shorthorn steers to the
1919 International, that on the face of the re-
turns as interpreted by most breeders and feed-
ers would be pronounced the most profitably pro-
duced cattle sold in the sales. The cattle in one
load were bred by Symns Bros. of Troy, Kansas,
the other load by Fred L. Weiss of Elizabeth,
Colorado. The Kausas load was bought in Jan-
unary 1919 at the average weight of 752 pounds.
They sold ten and a half months later weighing
1438 pounds, a gain of 686 pounds. These cattle
were first in the Shorthorn Speeial and sold for
$24.50, dressing 63.9 per cent. The Colorado bred
Shorthorns wou second place ta heavy competi-
tion and sold for $26.50. hey dressed 64.5 per
cent.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAB 17

Mr. MeGregor, while looking these cattle over,
told me he had always fed Herefords and had
considered them the best feeders to be had bu
these cattle made him feel that there were none
better than good Shorthorns, as they had outdone
all of his choice Angus and Herefords.
SHORTHORN REVIEW 1810—1857

Forty-seven years before this story begins, the
first great auction sale of Shorthorns was held
at Ketton, England, by Charles Colling, justly
called one of the improvers of the breed. The
original Duchess cow, ancestress of that tribe
bought in 1783 on the Darlington Market for $65,
was dead. Thomas Bates, destined to become
the leading breeder of Great Britain, bought one
of her descendants. She was a little shabby in
appearance but he called her the most valuable
cow in the world and it is reported that he de-
clared he would not take $5000 for his bargain.

Here began the boom that made sane men lose
their heads in the greatest era of folly known in
live stock history. Bates heralded his claim for
the Duchess cow and her descendants. Thomas
Booth developed a class of Sherthorns that vied
with those bred by Bates and for several decades
the fight for supremacy was waged. The nobility
lined up on the Bates side and threw vietory to
Bates’ cattle with the Duchess tribe in the lead.

The excellent importation made by Col. Lewis
Sanders in 1817 which ineluded the Teeswater
Sow, the Durham Cow and Mrs. Motte, filled
parts of Kentucky and Ohio with splendid cattle.
Later importations, notably the descendants of
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 19

the one made by the Ohio Company in 1836, were
used to discredit the descendants of the import-
ation of 1817. Though not able to claim and sub-
stantiate superiority in fact, appeal was made
to fads and the older importation lost popularity.

In 1840 George Vail of New York imported
from Mr. Bates’ herd a bull calf combining two
of his most precious families. Later he bought
some heifers, also. Mr. Bates died in 1849 and at
the dispersion of his herd in 1850 three head
were bought by Morris and Becar of New York.
In 1853 Samuel Thorne bought at the sale of Earl
Dueie, the man upon whom Mr. Bates’ mantle
seems to have fallen, three Duchess cows, and a
year or two later he bought the Morris and Becar
herd. He now had a monopoly of the Bates’
Duchess and Oxford blood in America. Numer-
ous importations of excellent cattle had been
made prior to this time, most of them by Ken-
tueky and Ohio breeders, and there had been
hittle discrimination in favor of any family.

R. A. Alexander of Kentucky made his notable
importation of thirty-six cows and five bulls in
1853 and in 1855 he imported Duke of Airdrie,
the bull that was to revolutionize public senti-
ment in America by turning it toward the Bates
standard. Imported Duke of Airdrie began
making his influence felt at the time this story
opens and when Shorthorns had become well
established from the Atlantie to the Mississippi.
SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 1857—1880

Kansas developed its early Shorthorn interests
slowly. This fact is not surprising when con-
ditions existing at the time are considered. <A
few herds had been established west of the Miss-
issippi, principally in Cooper county, Missouri,
before the Civil War, but interest in the breed
had assumed no proportions west of the river.
It was hundreds of miles from the Shorthorn
country to the Kansas border and transportation
facilities were limited to the slow steanihoats
plying on the rivers.

The Civil War, preceded by the border strug-
gle, which in turn gave way to the raids of the
bushwhackers, discouraged any attempt to de-
velop the new industry; vet it was under these
trving conditions that the first Shorthorn herd
was brought to the country known as ‘* The Great
American Desert.”’

The First Herd—The American herd book,
vol. 6, contains the pedigrees of fifteen cows and
three bulls owned in Kansas and they are cred-
ited to 8S. S. Tipton, Mineral Point, Anderson
county. Ten of the fifteen females were bred
by the Shakers of Union Village, Ohio, two by H.
C. Alkire of Sterling, Ohio, and the other three
by Mr. Tipton himself. The bulls were all bred
A HISTORY OF SILORTHORNS IN) KANSAS al

by Mr. Tipton. The oldest of the three cows of
Mr. a brecding is recorded as Bertha
Belle, vol. 6, p. 197. She was a white, calved
March oy me aveor cing to the herd book was
the first Shorthorn bicd in Kansas.

The herd proved prolific and the records show
that Mr. Tipton sold many bulls and females in
Anderson and adjoining counties. The first re-
corded bull sold was a vean, calved June 10, 1862,
that went to Morgan Russell & Co. of Lawrence.
His name and number were Opothoholo 504414.

Mr. Tipton continued his operations with suc-
cess for more than thirty years. In all this time
he made no effort to follow the lead of fashiou
but kept on breeding the families he had orig-
inally brought to the state. He did, however,
buy some good bulls. Among them was Procur-
ator 30710, a son of Starlight out of a dam by
General Grant. Mr. Tipton’s cattle furnished
the foundation for numerous herds im his local-
itv, though it is doubtful whether many could be
found at this time that are descended from the
first Shorthorn herd in Kansas.

Interesting facts concerning My. ie were
furnished by his son-in-law, 8. S. Patton, now
ninety-four years old and his grandson, € Charles
Patton who was born on the farm in ji
a bey herded his erandtat be? s eae

Mr. Tipton left Stillwater, Ohio in 1855, gome
to Fairfield, Lowa where he lived two year's, com-
22 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

ing from there to Anderson county in June, 1857.
He brought with him about fifty head of cattle.
most of which were pure bred Shorthorns. The
place where he located is four and one-half miles
southwest of Harris and the stone house that he
built still stands on a hill overlooking a tract of
bottom land where at times as many as 300
head of pure bred Shorthorns grazed. The
farm is now in the hands of grandsons. Mr.
Tipton bred Shorthorns until the day of his
death and he always went to Kentucky or Ohio
for his herd bulls. Mr. Charles Patton recalls
one bull, a big white fellow that cost $700
when cattle were cheap. With few ex-
ceptions, surplus cattle were sold privately,
but on one occasion, seventy-five head of young
bulls were shipped to Colorado to be sold and con-
signments were later made to sales in Kansas
City. The elder Mr. Patton remembers that
nearly all the pure bred cattle Mr. Tipton
brought with him from Ohio were of light colors
and many were whites. Later he began to breed
for roans and finally for reds.

At the time of Mr. Tipton’s death in 1889 the
farm on which he had settled had increased to
720 acres, valued under the low prices then pre-
vailing at $25,000, a large amount for those days.
The extent and value of the farm proved conelu-
sively that his Shorthorns had been a good source
of income.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN) KANSAS

39

The Pioneer of Northern Kansas.—J. M.
Huber came from Pleasant Plains, Illinois in
1860 to the farm near Meriden, now owned by
H. E. Huber, his son, bringing with him some
Shorthorns. He was not married and made his
home for a time with the Leidy family living on
the farm. It was here that Fremont Leidy, one
of the leading breeders of Butler county, was
born and H. E. Huber was born in the same cabin
later. J. M. Huber’s name first appears in vol.
9 A. H. B. as the owner of Bismarck, a roan bull
bred in Illinois and ealved in 1868. The first
animal bred and recorded by him was calved Dec-
ember 2, 1870. Volume 11 contains the pedigrees
of two Illinois bred cows ealved in 1858 and 1860,
both owned by him, from which it appears he did
not record his earlier calves.

Mr. Huber later became one of the leading
breeders of his section. In 1880 he won first
prize of $100 on best herd under two years at
Bismarek Grove and the thirteen-year-old son,
H. E., helped care for the cattle and show them.
Shortly after this Mr. Huber bought a good bull
and heifer of Albert Crane and some of the choice
cattle found on the farm today descend from that
heifer. A few years later he bought of Col.
Harris the bull Golden Belt by Baron Victor out
of Linwood Golden Drop. About 1890 Mr. Huber
retired from business, turning over the farm and
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Shorthorn laterests.

From Anderson County to Woodson.— Volume
6 of the American herd book in which the Tip-
ton cattle were recorded was published in 1863
and up to that time no other Shorthorns were
recorded from Kansas, but in vol. 7, published
three years later, the name of Joel Moody of
Belmont, Woodson county, appears as the breed-
er of the white bull, King of Kansas. He was by
Pascova 505914, a Tipton bred bull and out of
Queen of Kansas, a cow bred by the Shakers and
purchased from My. Tipton, probably in 1864.
Mr. Moody recorded the produce of this cow for
four years and after that neither he nor his cattle
appear on record.

Shorthorns Enter Shawnee County.—Volume
7 also contains the pedigrees of two bulls and
nine cows owned by Alkire & Wardell of And-
erson county. Several of these were bred by
them and calved in 1864 and 1865 from purchases
made in Ohio and Kentueky probably early in
1863. The difficulties attending the transport-
ing of cattle to Kansas in those eritieal days must
have been almost insurmountable. It is not cer-
tain that these cattle were brought to Kansas be-
fore the Civil War ended in 1865, and though
bred by Alkire & Wardell and credited to Aiu-
derson county, it is quite possible that they were
bred in Ohio and not recorded untit after the
26 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

change of residence to Anderson county. This
herd was kept up for several years but as early
as 1865 a number of the cows found their way to
Shawnee county into the herd of M. J. Alkire.
Indications are that the Shawnee county herd
absorbed the Anderson county herd before 1868.
M. J. Alkire remained in the business for many
years, consistently breeding a desirable class of
cattle. His name still appears occasionally in
pedigrees of Kansas and Oklahoma herds.

The First Touch of Fashion.—Up to this time
the cattle brought to Kansas had been of the kind
termed ‘‘plainly bred’’ by leaders in the business.
The first attempt to conform more closely to pop-
ular blood lines of the day must be credited to
John Inlow of Johnson county. It was probably
in 1865 that Mr. Inlow brought in the excellent
red and white bull calf, Ist Grand Duke of Kan-
sas by the Bates bull 3d Grand Duke of Oxford,
and several good cows. One of the cows was by
the famous bull Gen. Grant 4825 and out of a
daughter of imp. Easter Day. He also owned
and used the 3d Grand Duke of Oxford and while
his herd did not assume large proportions, yet
he produced desirable cattle and their descend-
ants are still found in good herds. The red and
white Miss Watson of his breeding was the an-
eestress of many of the valuable cattle sent out
from the Glick herd some years later. Among
Mr. Inlow’s sales were the bull Ist Grand Duke
A HISTORY OF SHUORTITORNS IN KANSAS 27

of Kansas and several cows to N. L. Chaffee of
Manhattan, a few cows to Andrew Wilson and
some choice annnals to George W. Greever, men-
tion of which will be made later.

Better Cattle from Better Herds.—-At the close
of the sixties Andrew Wiison of Shawnee county
was probably the most discriminating buyer of
foundation stock in the new state. Cattle of his
breeding calved as early as 1870 are on record
and it was in that year, that in addition to the
purchases made from John Inlow, Mr. Wilson
made other memorable purchases which attract-
ed the attention of the whole country. From the
herd of James N. Brown & Sous of Lhnois, then
one of the leading Shorthorn establishments in
the United States, he secured a number of high
class cows. Grace Young 4th and Grace Young
oth, two cows of national reputation as prize win-
ners, sired by Tycoon, one of the greatest bulls
of his day, were added to the herd. Minister, for
several years the leading show bull of the West,
was bought at W. R. Dunean’s sale for $1760.
Myr. Wilson now had cattle from which a fortune
could have been made, but for some reason he
soon gave up the business. On August 20, 1873
Grace Young 4th and Graee Young 5th, the
plums of the herd, were sold in a public sale at
Silver Lake, to the Kansas State Agricultural
College for #800 and 1080, and later at the col-
lege they produced a family of excellent cattle,
25 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

the descendants of which can still be found im
dXansas herds. Although Mr. Wilson’s period of
active operation was short, he had brought a class
of stock to the new state, not seen prior to that
date and it would be unfair to measure the value
of his service by the brief time he was engaged 1
breeding.

George W. Greever.—At the time John Inlow
was selling lis eattle, Georee W. Greever of
Wyandotte county bought the cow Praine Flow-
ey by Ist Grand Duke of Kansas. From this cow
he raised three heifers, two by the fine sire Basil
Duke and one by Master of Ravenswood. The
small but choice herd was sold to C. B. Norris of
Geneva in 1878. The bull Basil Duke 4th by
Basil Duke was included in the sale.

John F. Piper.—In 1860 John F. Piper, then
a resident of Kentucky, bought the imported cow
Hasty, bred by Mr. Burnett and imported by
The Mason & Bracken Company. From her he
raised three heifers calved in 1861, 1862 and 1864,
named Spot, Humpback and Violet. Ma. Piper
cane to Labette county, Kansas late in the sixties
bringing with him numerous descendants of imp.
Hasty, none of which were recorded, and it was
not until 1879 that the pedigree of the imported
eow and eleven of her daughters and erand-
daughters were placed on record. How many
eattle from this herd were sold in these vears at
less than their value if recorded, can only be
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guessed. Members of the Piper family and sev-
eral other persons living in Labette county pro-
duced small herds of Shorthorns during the
eighties from this lot of cattle, and a munber of
herds in that section are descended from the Pip-
er heifers.

Wabaunsee County’s First Herd—bL. A.
Knapp came from La Salle county, Llinois, set-
thing ona farm in Wabaunsee county a few miles
northwest of Dover, in 1870. He brought with
him a good knowledge of Shorthorns, plenty of
enthusiasm, a good bull and two cows. One of
these cows, Bluebird 2d, has descendants in sey-
‘eral Kansas herds. <A little more than a year
later he formed a partnership with George W.
Glick and transferred his energies to Shannon
Hill where he remained until 1876 or 1877 when
he returned to his Wabaunsee county farm with
quite a number of gocd cattle from the Glick
herd which came to him through the partner-
ship. As L. A. Knapp of Dover, he became one
of the well known breeders of the state, produc-
ing many creditable specimens of the breed. Some
of these in other hands went to build good herds.
The farm upon which Mr. Knapp settled is now
owned and occupied by his son, EH. L. Knapp, who
is raising Shorthorns, some of which are descend-
ed in the female line from the eows bronght from
Illinois in 1870.

James O’Neal & Son.—Mr. O’Neal had been
30 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

breeding Shorthorns in Canada and moved to
Jefferson county, Kansas about 1870 bringing
with him some of his cattle. The early produce
of the herd was sold as far west as Manhattan.
He later made purchases from Albert Crane in-
eluding the Alexander bred Gwynne Duke of
Woodburn by 26th Duke of Airdrie, and Loudon
Duke 13th by 5th Duke of Geneva, indicating
his appreciation of quality in bulls. Only a few
females were bought. His work was continued
in the eighties but was practically local in char-
acter.

Shorthorns Reach Greenwood County.—Hart
Bros. were breeders of Shorthorns in Waukesha
county, Wisconsin, in the sixtics. In 1870 or
1871 they came to Greenwood county bringing
with them the bull Imperial Hendon and the cows
Roan Duchess 5th, Delphena, and Royal Duchess
Sth, all from the herd of John P. Roe of Wau-
kesha. These cows proved prolific and a large
herd was built from them in ten years. The herd
of C. L. Hart of Eureka was descended from
these cows.

A Brown County Pioneer.—G. Y. Johnson of
Brown county, soldier of the Civil War, big in
stature and character, began breeding Short-
horns in 1870. His start was made with the so-
called Bates crossed standard families of that
time and he was more regular and systematic in
recording the produce than any other early Kan-
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sas breeder. When the Cruickshank cattle came
in, he bought an imported Scotch bull but soon
sold him and bought another named Lavender

 

 

 

 

 

RESIDENCE OF T. J. SANDS, ROBINSON

Mr. Sands laid the foundation for prosperity at Mr. Johnson’s
dispersion sale.

Lad. Later he bought imp. Nonpareil 35th by
Kintore Hero. From this cow he raised a bull,
Nonpareil Lad, used in the herd until the time of
his sale about 1900. Mr. Johnson sold many good
bulls in his part of the state and he always sold
to the man who wanted one on credit. ‘‘I always
thought,’’ he said, ‘‘that a man who was ambi-
tious enough to own a good bull couldn’t be far
wrong.”’

A Period of Expansion.—The vear 1870 saw
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Shorthorns well established, but not numerous 1
the state. This date may be safely fixed, how-
ever, as the beginning of a period of expansiou.
A number of herds destined to more than local
prominence were founded, but probably no other
was so widely known and carried on under more
broad-minded management than the one owned
by Albert Crane of Chicago, on his immense
tract of land in Marion county and called by that
generation and later generations, The Durham
Park Herd.

The Durham Park Herd.—The first purchases
for this herd, abont fifty females, were what is
generally known as nicely bred stock, so popular
in Kentucky and Illinois at that time. Mr. Crane
showed but little inclination to indulge in the
pure Bates speculation, having bought only one
cow, Oxford Myrtle, of that strain. Ineluded
among his early purchases was the bull Loudon
Duke 13th by 5th Duke of Geneva. This was one
of E. G. Bedford’s famous Loudop Duchess fam-
ily. Of J. M. Woodruff of Indiana, he bought
2d Duke of Jubilee. Both these bulls were
strongly bred along Bates lines.

Although these purchases had been made from
some of the best herds in the country, most of
them were not from the herds that had the ereat-
est prestige. Mi. Crane was not satisfied. He
began operations on a scale attracting general
attention. The 23d Duke of Airdrie and the
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imported Booth cow Joan of Arc, were bought at
long prices. Of M. H. Cochrane he bought the
imported Booth bull Lord Abraham by the
great Breastplate; and of Chas. E. Coffin, the
bull Lord Abraham 2d by Lord Abraham ard
out of imp. Maiden. In 1875 he bought the
Bates bull, Lord Bates 2d by the exported 24th
Duke of Airdrie, of A. J. Alexander. From F.
W. Beldon he secured the Cochran bred Lord of
the Lake. Mr. Crane was now well supplied
with herd bulls of both Bates and Booth blood
lines.

In this time nearly fifty females from some of
the best herds in Great Britain and the United
State had been bought. Mr. Crane’s own import-
ation which left Liverpool October 14, 1875, con-
sisted of six Bates cows and the Torr bred
Telluaria Wassail, illustrated in vol. 16. Of this
importation, the cow Lady Mary 6th gave birth
to the white bull Panic, and Telluaria Wassail
to the roan, Knight of the Crescent, thus adding
to Mr. Crane’s long list of excellent bulls, an
imported Bates and an imported Booth bull.

Shortly after this Mr. Crane bought two more
bulls, the imported Booth bull Royal Deerham
from Simon Beattie and imp. Royal Laneaster,
illustrated in vol. 16, from John Hope. Inport-
ed Royal Lancaster was of the Cambridge Rose
tribe, of the same origin as the Rose of Sharons.
Among the cows purchased were imp. Regal Star
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(Booth) and the Bates cows, imp. Kirklevington
15th illustrated in vol. 16, and the Canada bred
Duchess of York 9th. Airdrie Duchess 2d and
Airdrie Duchess 3d were bought of Mr. Alexand-
er for $21,000 and $23,600 and a long price was
paid for 28th Duke of Airdrie. In 1878 Mr.
Crane exported a lot of Shorthorns to England.
Among them was the 27th Duke of Airdrie. The
Durham Park herd comprised a wonderful col-
lection of Shorthorns, carrying as values then
rated, the highest priced blood lines in the world.
No such toleration as Mr. Crane’s had been
shown for the several rival strains of blood since
R. A. Alexander had founded the great herd at
Woodburn.

The Shannon Hill Herd.—While Albert Crane
was busy collecting some of the breed’s choicest
specimens for the great Durham Park herd he
had established in the comparatively new part of
the state, a quiet, conservative man of Atchison
county was carrying on operations in the older
settled portion. George W. Glick began his
work well, not by following the dictates of fash-
ion, but by buying a few good cows and a good
bull. It was in about 1870 that the original pur-
chases were made and like Mr. Crane’s first
selections, they did not indicate partiality for
any particular strain. They were, however, of
what was then considered good standard breed-
ing. In 1872 Mr. Glick added by purchase in
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Kentucky, a bull and two heifers and maintained
the conservative course of selling the bulls at
fair prices and retaining the females. It was in
about 1872 that a partnership was formed with
L. A. Knapp, a breeder of Wabaunsee county
and Mr. Knapp moved to Atchison county to
take charge of the herd. The firm name was
Glick & Knapp. When Mr. Knapp returned to
his own farm, Mr. Glick became associated with
a Mr. Carmichael for a short time. He always
had the assistance of his son, Fred, who owned
an interest in the herd and had quite a number
of the cattle recorded in his name.

It will be recalled that during the seventies
the Bates Sherthorns were the popular ones and
the big prices paid for even inferior individuals
descended in the female line from cattle bred by
Thos. Bates were used by the entire speculative
element of the Shorthorn fraternity to boom
their own interests. In vain it was pointed out
that practically all the Shorthorns of the country
were so full of Bates blood that they were vir-
tually Bates cattle. Hitherto no Kansas breeder
had heeded the call of the ‘‘purist’’, but about
1879, Mr. Glick changed his course. He owned
through an exchange, the Princess (Bates) bull,
Claud Weatherby and he decided to purchase
some females whose breeding would be within
clearly recognized pure Bates lines. In May of
that year he bought of W.8. Slater of Massachu-
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36 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

setts the bull calf that won considerable fame as
Duke of Shannon Hill and a heifer calf, Lady
Sale of Atchison. He also bought 10th Lady
Sale of Brattleboro, 15th Lady Sale of Brattle-
horo, Queen of the East by 22d Duke of Airdrie
and Zora by 15th Duke of Airdrie. To his credit
it must be said that he did not condemn all Short-
horns of mixed breeding as unworthy and he re-
tained many of his older cattle, but he neverthe-
less became a leader of Bates forces in the West
at the inopportune time that the ‘‘plain bred”’
Cruickshank cattle from Scotland were making
the fight for supremacy and winning.

Elected governor in 1882, G. W. Glick’s name
became a household word in Kansas and else-
where. His love for his favorite Bates cattle
was so firmly rooted that, unlike most other lead-
ing breeders, he did not fall in with the trend of
the times, but kept on breeding from his fe-
males and put the 53d Duke of Airdrie, an ex-
cellent Bates bull, in service. That Mr. Ghek
built up a good herd is admitted, but that he could
have done much better had he fallen in line with
other leading breeders, using the Cruickshank
bulls even if not the females, is also quite evident.
Had he used his wonderful personality in co-
operation with such a man as Col. Harris, his
achievements would have been far greater. Al]
Gov. Glick’s effort to stem the tide was wasted.
The hour had come when merit, though stigma-
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tized as plainly bred, won, and the aristocracy
of the breed went down to defeat. On November
17, 1889 My. Glick sold the entire herd including
the much advertised Shannon Hill farm to Daw-
dy & Company of Llinois, who sold the ninety-
one Bates cattle at auction at the old horse barn
in Kansas City, April 11 and 12,1890. The aver-
age price was $225. W. R. Nelson, owner and
editor of The Kansas City Star and founder of
the Sni-A-Bar farm, bought fifteen of these cat-
tle ineluding 53d Duke of Airdrie.

 

 

 

 

 

MR. AND MR8.A.A. TENNYSON MILTON POLAND & SON
Lamar Sabetha

An Early Herd in Nemaha County.—The herd
of W. 8S. White of Sabetha was established in
1872 by the purchase of females from Kentucky,
38 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Illinois and Missouri breeders, and of two bulls
from J. H. Spears & Son of Illinois. Occasional
purchases were made later and the heifers were
nearly all retained for several years. Mcasured
by numbers this grew to be one of the state’s
leading herds but the proprietor made little ef-
fort to keep up with the procession until the
hard times of the eighties rendered all efforts
of no avail.

Late in 1883 or early in 1884 Mr. White bought
three cows of Mr. Spears. He also bought a
daughter of imp. Duke of Hazelcote 19th from
S. C. Duncan, and a daughter of Loudon Duke
6th from J. G. Cowan & Son. The same year fe-
males were added to the herd from the Illinois
herds of Wm. Stevenson & Sons and EK. M. Goff.
Liberal use had been made of the bull Cherub 2d
16470, a son of the $6000 imp. Cherub and imp.
Lady Highthorne. Cato 25866, a Kentucky bred
bull of only ordinary descent, was also used
freely. Mr. White next began using Mazurka
Duke 52758, a fashionably bred Bates bull from
Bow Park by the celebrated 4th Duke of Clar-
ence; Royal Duke of Oakland, a bull of his own
breeding, by Cherub 2d; and Emperor 62667, a
Kentucky bred son of 2d Duke of Xalapa. In
1887 he secured from the Luther Adams import-
ation the Duthie bred Lord Haddow and began
using him at once. At the time Lord Haddov
was bought, good cows weighing from 1000 to
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 39

1200 pounds could hardly be sold for as much
as $15 a head. Many changed hands at less.
Had it not been for this condition Mr. White
might have been able to overcome the losses he
had sustained by sticking to the lost hope of
Bates supremacy, and to retrieve his fortune.
As it was, like many others, he failed to realize
on his investments. The last cattle of his breed-
ing were calved in 1890.

Mr. White was a man of pleasing personality.
He was president of the short-lived Kansas State
Shorthorn Breeders Association, an organization
that like many of its members, suspended oper-
ations in about 1888.

Leavenworth’s First Importation.—In 1872
Crespigny & Seiver imported from England the
roan bull Duke of Hazeleote 19th bred by Col.
Kingscote, the roan cow Listless and the red cow
Likely, both bred by Thomas Morris of Maus-
amore Court. Both cows were carrying calves
at the time of their unportation. Listless pro-
duced a red bull calf Lord Lytton 17575 and
Likely, a roan heifer named Lovely, vol. 13-748.
These calves were sold to Matthew Ryan of Lea-
venworth. Duke ot Hazelecote 19th and the two
cows went to S. C. Dunean, the well known breed-
er in Clay county, Missouri. Mr. Ryan recorded
no produce from his purchase until 1831 when a
large number of calves and yearlings went on
record as bred by him. ‘They were nearly all
40 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

sured by Lord Lytton, but only one, a daughter
of imp. Lovely, was descended on the maternal
side from this inportation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IT. N. CHAPMAN OTTO H. WULFEKUHLER
County Agent, Leavenworth Banker, Leavenworth
These men have started more than 40 new Shorthorn breeders in
Leavenworth county since January 1919,

Victoria Colony Shorthorns.—George Grant,
of poor Scotch parentage, found his way to Lon-
don where he worked in a store, later engaging
in merchandizing on his own account. He was
a born promoter and organizer. He is reputed to
have run a corner on crepe when the prince con-
sort died and on silk during the Paris Exposition.
He was considered a plunger with a shrewd head.
When he came to Kansas he saw his opportunity.
He agreed with the Kansas Pacifie Railroad
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 41

company to sell a lot of land and settle it. The
result of this project was the far-famed Victoria
Colony, established in Ellis county on the border
line of civilization in 1872 and settled by the ar-
istocracy of Great Britain. According to best
information, members of the colony were high
livers. Most of them were on remittances from
home sent by parents who hardly knew what else
to do with their sons. Grant himself is said to
have been fond of women and whiskey and to
have been a poor sort of guardian for wealthy
gentry. Llowever that may be, no one can ques-
tion his nerve, for he brought to this then desolate
country a lot of high priced Shorthorns and
planted them among the most unfavorable con-
ditions.

In November 1871 Mr. Grant imported from
Hneland the roan six-month-old bull calf Lord
of the Manor; the white seven-month-old heifer
Fairy Verulam, and the ved yearling heifer
Niobe 8th. In 1872 he imported the bull Gogeles
17193 and later the roan cow Dunples, purchased
from Queen Victoria’s herd. In 1876 he resumed
unportation having purchased from the Queen’s
herd seven heifers and the bull Royal George
27797. The lot consisted of Cold Cream 10th and
Countess 2d, two years old, that produced bull
calves shortly after importation, named Roval
Windsor and Manrico 2d; Rosa and Minette,
two years old; and Roseleaf, Matilda and Peer-
42 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

less, yearlings. The importation also included
a bull, Royal Duke, bred by Dr. Armstrong. Mv.
Grant sold the bull calf Manrico 2d to Thomas hk.
Clark who was living in New York City and was
associated with the Victoria Colony. Within a
year or two after the importation, Mr. Clark had
secured most of the cattle. From the service of
nnp. Goggles, imp. Niobe 8th had produced a
heifer called Ida that was sold at four years old
with calf at foot to Archibald Kerr of Eureka.
It should be mentioned that the first importation
was kept for a time in Clay county.

My. Grant died in April 1878 and lies buried
near a little Episcopalian church which he him-
self had built with funds he had collected. His
will, which it is said provided for the disposal of
millions, was a faree, as but little money or other
property was left when he died.

Thos. R. Clark who was a member of the firm
of Fiske, Clark & Flagg, Gents’ Furnishing
Goods, New York City, subscribed to Grant’s
Victoria Colony and is said to have been the one
man who came out ahead. He bought most of
the cattle of the Grant unportation and also a
lot of fashionably bred Bates cows of the B. B.
Groom assignees at the time when Bates was
eiving way to Seotech. The ranch was kept
stoeked, but whether with descendants of the
Civant importation, is uncertain. After Clark’s
death some ten or fifteen years ago, the land and
A HISTORY OF SILORTILORNS IN KANSAS 45

cattle were sold to the late Courad Kreuger who
for years had been one of his employees.

Jn 1877 John Bowman of the Vietoria Colony
imported from the herd of R. Jefferson, Eng-
land, the ved and white eow Proud Butterfly, in
ralf to British Boy (30597). The produce was a
heifer recorded as Pearl Butterfly. Bred again
to the Crane bull, Lord of the Lake (see Crane
sketch) she produced the bull Royal Moresby.
Mr. Bowman had also bought of Albert Crane
Cinderella 17th, that with her daughter Second
Cinderella of Moresby, was sold to T. J. MeClel-
land of Haynesville, Missouri.

A Good Foundation.—Archibald Kerr laid the
foundation for his Greenwood county herd in
about 1876. May. Kerr was an Englishman who
maintained a large establishment and spent mon-
ey extravagantly. Though not a member of the
Victoria Colony his business and social relations
brought him in close contact with its members.
Aimong other Shorthorns purchased from George
Grant of the colony were imp. Niobe 8th and her
heifer calf by imp. Goggles. Ile also purchased
from Albert Crane a bull, Lord Hamlet 33072, a
eombination of Bates and Booth blood he having
been by Lord Bates 80th and out of Miss Wiley
2d by Star of the Reahn. From W. T. Benson
of Canada he secured the cow Daisy Evebright
vol. 12 and her heifer calf Josephine by imp.
Tambour came from John Snell’s Sons of On-
44 A LISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

tario. Mr. Kerr also purchased the entire herd
of G. Van Horn who had been breeding Short-
horns in Montgomery county, later locating on
a section of land lying fifteen miles northwest
of Yates Center which to this time is known as
the Van Horn Ranch.

 

 

 

 

 

A SHORTHORN BOY AND A SHORTHORN CALE

A foundation for good citizenship and prosperity.—Courtesy of
R. CG. Watson & Sons, Altoona.

Shorthorns Go With Berkshires—A. W. Rol-
lins of Riley county was better known as a breed-
er of prize winning Berkshire hogs than as a
breeder of Shorthorns. His herd of cattle, while
not large, was carefully selected and represented
the more popular blood lines of the day. His sur-
plus found ready sale among farmers and local
breeders and he occasionally added choice ani-
A HISTORY OF SIIORTHORNS IN KANSAS 45

mals to the herd which he owned from about 1874
until late in the eighties.

First Shorthorns for Barton County.—In a-
bout 1875 or 1876 Matthew Toews settled near
Ellinwood coming from Omro, Wisconsin. He
had been breeding in that state and brought a
small herd to his new home.

T. M. Marcy.—Mr. Marcy had been breeding
Shorthorns in Ohio, from which state he came to
Kansas in about 1877 locating in Shawnee
county. He secured three bulls from R. 8.
Streater of Cleveland, Ohio. They were Bread-
albane 2d 31887, a roan by the Torr bred Booth
bull, imp. Breadalbane and out of imp. Golden
Symp, vol. 15; Henry 3d, a roan also hy imp.
Breadalbane out of Calm 15th, vol. 8; and imp.
St. Albans, a calf out of imp. Golden Symp by the
Booth bull, Athelstane. These bulls were all
used to some extent, though St. Albans was used
more heavily than the others in the early period
of the herd’s existence. Breadalhane 2d was
used most on the heifers sired by St. Albans.
While other bulls saw service in the herd, only
one, Commodore 59188, was the sire of many of
the young cattle produced in the middle and
latter eighties.

Commodore was bred by Col. Harris and was
calved at the very time that Baron Victor
reached Linwood. He represented the Kentucky
line of breeding made popular in the West by the
46 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Hamiltons. The M. H. Lyons herd, one of the
first, if not the very first established in Okla-
homa, was founded by the purchase of ten young
cows and heifers from Marey & Son in 1891.
These cows were nearly all by Commodore and
were among the last of the larger lots bred and
sold from the farm. The surplus produce of the
fifteen or more years found a ready sale locally
and a number of sales were made in Iowa and
Nebraska. The herd was a creditable one and
had Mr. Marey taken advantage of conditions
by buying a top bull at Linwood in 1883 or 1884,
he would doubtless have profited largely from
the cross with his good strong females.

A Student of Type and Pedigrees.—A herd
that was founded in the seventies and main-
tained for nearly forty years was that of Andrew
Pringle of Wabaunsee county. Mr. Pringle’s
strongest point was that he was a stickler for
good bulls. His early purchases of females were
made from local breeders and later when the
Seotch cattle came in he bought Scotch and
Scotch topped cows of merit from such herds as
those of Col. Harris and B. O. Cowan. Collegian,
a son of the great cow, Grace Young 5th by Ty-
coon, Jas. N. Brown’s noted show bull and sire,
was one of the first bulls used. When Col. Har-
ris made his start with Cruickshank cattle Mr.
Pringle recognized their value and as long as the
Linwood herd existed he made annual or semi-
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annual visits of a day or two days, studying and
learning. In this way he aequired not only a
correct idea of modern Shorthorn type and char-
acter, but also a broad knowledge of pedigrees.
He obtained his herd bulls from the Linwood
herd as long as he could and later bought from
J. G. Robbins & Son, John Dryden of Canada,
F. W. Ayers of Illinois and Carpenter & Ross.
Few herds in Kansas were owned by men who
more consistently than Mr. Pringle bought high
class sires. The bulls produced in the herd near-
ly all went to the western trade and other bulls
from the locality adjacent to Mr. Pringle’s farm
went with them. Most of the females were re-
tained until the herd, at its best, numbered more
than one hundred head. After this they were
sold to breeders or used in founding new herds.
Six or seven years ago the entire herd including
the Avondale herd bull, Maxwalton Rosedale,
was sold to Tomson Bros. who retained some of
the most desirable specimens.

G. W. K. Bailey & Sons.—Late in the seven-
ties these men came from Pike county, Missouri
to Kansas, locating on a splendid tract of land at
the head of Fall River, fifteen miles northwest
of Eureka. During the eighties they bred a
large herd of good, useful cattle which were an
important factor in local live stock improvement.

W. E. W. Bailey, the oldest son of the family,
also owned a good herd. Both herds went the
48 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

way of so many other Shorthorns during the
trying times of 1884 to 1897; but as this is being
written I am in receipt of a letter from Mr.
Bailey stating that he wants to buy a few good
Shorthorns. This goes to show that good cattle
of the breed have a lasting influence over a man
and that when he has once formed the habit, he
will revert to his old love after many years. Mr.
Bailey is probably past sixty and lives at Utopia
in Greenwood county. He will be successful
with his cattle when he buys them.

C. B. Norris.—In about 1877 C. B. Norris of
Allen county purchased a few females closely de-
scended from John Inlow’s Prairie Flower by
Ist Duke of Kansas. He also secured the bull

 

GOOD FOUNDATION STOCK USHED BY bk. 8. DALE, PROTECTION
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 49

Basil Duke 4th, a son of Basil Duke 6434, a bull
of wide reputation in Henry Laramore’s Callo-
way county, Missouri, herd. Two of the cows
were by Basil Duke. In 1880 these cows were
sold to W. B. Woodside of Rose and at Mr.
Woodside’s dispersion sale in 1893 a four-year-
old daughter of one of the cows was sold to Sam-
uel Kahl of Buffalo, at the high price of $50.
Mr. Kahl bred some excellent cattle from this
cow and the good herd of F. A. Dumond of Yates
Center comes from the Kahl cows.

Towne & Boomer.—This Brown county firm
began breeding Shorthorns about 1877. They
owned, among others, the imported cow Charlotte
4th by Duke of Knowlmere and a lot of cows
sired by the Princess bull, Claud Wetherby, pur-
chased about 1878 by G. W. Glick. (See Glick
sketch) . It is quite likely that Claud Wetherby
was received by Mr. Glick in exchange for the
bull Gustavus 17276, which bull Towne & Boom-
er began using at the same time that Mr. Glick
began using Claud Wetherby. The herd did not
assume more than local proportions and while
consisting of splendid cattle, was like so many
others lost in the change from Bates to Scotch in
the desperately trving times of the middle and
latter eighties.

A Wide Range of Purchase.—Late in 1875 H.
A. Stratton of Lyon county bought the bull
Prince 27484 bred by A. C. Funk of Illinois.
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Within twelve months from that time he secured
a number of cows from Albert Crane, W. W.
Tipton of Coffey county, Childs & Sweet of IIl-
inois, H. H. Hankins of Ohio and T. H. Brettel
of Canada. The herd was maintained for a good
many years and was prolific. Mr. Stratton lived
in that part of Kansas where farmers early
learned the value of improved stock and his sur-
plus was readily disposed of locally.

An Early Rice County Herd.—Avery Bros.
and R. H. Avery of Rice county worked together,
Avery Bros. later having possession of the R. H.
Avery herd. R. H. Avery had been a Shorthorn
breeder at Galesburg, Illinois and came to Kan-
sas late in 1877 or early in 1878 bringing some
Shorthorns with him. In addition to the pur-
chase of the R. H. Avery herd, Avery Bros.
bought stock from Albert Crane and from other
Kansas breeders, some of which represented pop-
ular blood lines. In 1882 quite a number of the
cattle went to George Avery Jr., of Sterling.

Joseph E. Guild.—Joseph E. Guild of Silver
Lake, Shawnee county, a prominent farmer of
his section, purchased in 1879 the red bull Baron
Adelaide 34427, the red cows, Lady Leonard 2d
and Lady Leonard 3d, both by the famous sire
and show bull, Oakland Favorite, and the red,
Lady Cundiff, of Dr. W. H. Cundiff, Pleasant
Hill, Missouri. These cattle represented the
Leonard Flora family, then one of the best in the
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West. The Guild herd while not large was quite
favorably known for a good many years, but
probably few if any Shorthorns descended from
Mr. Guild’s breeding could now be found.

First Shorthorns in Northwest Kansas.—
Simpson Flinn’s were the first Shorthorns for
the extreme northwest part of Kansas. The herd
consisted of two bulls and three heifers recorded
as calved in 1880. He also recorded a cow bred
by D. M. Flinn of Towa, from which it is inferred
that Simpson Flinn of Rawlins county was of the
well known Iowa family of that name.

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With a record of 5796.1 pounds of milk as a two-year-old. Owned hy
the Kansas Agricultural College,
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Breeding for Milk Production.—Swain Bros.
& Bates of Lawrence bought a choicely bred lot
of cattle, including the bulls Earl of Athol 32485
and Grand Juror 32769. This was about 1878.
Earl of Athol was out of Maid of Athol, a cow
that gave 12875 pounds of milk, making 513
pounds of butter ina vear. Her greatest ten day
yield was 581 pounds of milk and 2114 pounds
of butter. Grand Juror, bred by Albert Crane,
was by Lord Bates 2d. The cows were from the
herds of John Inlow, Avery & Murphy and the
well known Wilham Miller herd in Canada.

Col. Harris and a Mr. Swain, probably the
same person mentioned above, were associated
and a few animals were recorded as owned joint-
ly by them. Several of Col. Harris’ early pur-
chases came from R. D. Swain.

A Breeder in the Making.—Col. W. A. Harris
of Linwood did not differ from other breeders
except in two respects. He held positive con-
victions and he had the courage to assert and up-
hold the correctness of his views against the
whole world if necessary. His first Shorthorn
purchase is recorded in vol. 18, published in
April 1879, where it is stated that on February
20th of that vear he bought of Dr. Cundiffe,
Prinee Leonard 5th, the unfashionably colored
red and white bull. It was probably about the
same time that he showed his disregard of fash-
ion by buying a roan cow for roan was a color
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which then had vo place in most Shorthorn herds.
There was nothing in the record of W. A. Harris
prior to 1880 which would lead one to suspect that
America’s greatest brecder was making his start.

Minor Shorthorn Operations.—The herds men-
tioned thus far all assumed considerable promi-
nence and were a strong factor in building up
Shorthorn interests in Kansas. There were many
small breeders scattered over the state prior to
1880 of whom it is possible to give only limited
information. Most of these men did not handle
Shorthorns a great length of time nor did their
work have any influence on present day herds.

In 1872 Robert Cook of Allen county bought
four females from Ohio breeders. He continued
his work for nine years producing cattle of fair
quality which were sold locally.

S. L. Shotwell of ElDorado bought a bull and
seven cows of M. B. Robertson, Sonora, Ohio in.
1879. Three of the cows produced heifer calves
shortly after reaching Kansas and by 1880 Mr.
Shotwell had a good httle herd. No record of
later operations appears.

Two herds of national reputation, those of J.
P. Sanborn of Michigan and Wilham Miller of
Canada, furnished the foundation for a herd in
Dickinson county. The cattle were owned a few
years by G. E. Hunton and included the imported
eow Young Bracelet from which he raised three
heifers that were retained.
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In about 1877 W. 8. Burkham of Douglas
county bought from Pickrell & Kissinger and
from the Bow Park herd in Canada a few cows of
very choice ancestry. But little record of his
work appears later and this splendid foundation
which might have been crossed with Cruickshank
bulls and made one of the outstanding herds of
the state seems to have been lost to the breed.

In March 1877 J. E. Woodford of Burlington
bought of the estate of W. W. Tipton of Coffey
county the red roan heifer, Belle, then just one
month old. It is probable that he also secured
her dam, Belle of Bristle, vol. 10. At the time
of this purchase or very shortly thereafter, Mr.
Woodford bought several other females and he
retained Shorthorns for twenty years. At no
time, however, did the herd assume more than
local importance. It might be of interest to
know that the heifer calf mentioned above was
a descendant in the maternal line from the first
Shorthorns brought to Kansas by 8. 8. Tipton
in 1857.

Reynolds & Pritchard, whose main establish-
ment was located near Madison in Greenwood
county, bred and handled Shorthorns extensively
from 1870 to 1886. In addition to the Greenwood
county ranch they also operated a large estab-
lishment near Augusta and one in Sedgwick
county. This firm should probably be classed
as dealers rather than as breeders.
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Harvey county became the home of a lot of
cows from the historie Dunn herd in Ohio. In
1875 Armenia Casterline started a herd which he
cared for under good conditions. The bull
calves were all sold locally and the heifers kept.
The early history of the establishment indicated
permanency but for some cause which the records
do not disclose, Mr. Casterline ceased operations.

W. G. Anderson began business in Johnson
county about 1875 by purchases made in Ohio and
Kentucky and for a number of years the heifers
produced were retained. The bulls found ready
sale in the surrounding territory.

Burtiss Bros. and C. L. Burtiss of Jefferson
county, Whose operations were closely connected,
owned a small herd in the middle seventies which
they sold to Frank Leach of Waterville. In 1875
or 1876 My. Leach bought from N. L. Chaffee
of Manhattan a number of cows and probably
also the well known bull, Oxford Wiley. Some
females were seeured from O. W. Bill of Man-
hattan. Mr. Leach continued to breed until the
early eighties.

G. T. Watkins came to Jackson county about
1870 from Pike county, Ulinois, where he had
been breeding Shorthorns. He made few pur-
chases and recorded but little produce the first
ten vears, but during the eighties he carried on
more extensive breeding operations and stock
from his herd was widely scattered.
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It was toward the close of the seventies that
M. V. Davis and J. W. Martin, both of Labette
county, each bought a number of cows from the
Piper herd. Their breeding operations contin-
ued in a limited way for several years.

R. Williams & Son of Lincoln county were
breeders from 1872 until early in the eighties.
The herd was not large and was little known
outside the immediate vicinity.

Levi Duinbauld was a prominent breeder from
1874 to 1885. During these years he maintained
a good Shorthorn herd on his Lyon county farm.
The territory around his home furnished a
market for his young bulls and a female now and
then. He used extensively and probably for too
long, a bull, King of the Prairie, bought of A. C.
Funk of L[linois.

Although F. McHardy of Emporia bred a few
Shorthorns he can not be properly classed as a
breeder. He was rather a dealer who bought and
sold cattle in large numbers and of varying
quality to suit the purchaser. Later he trans-
ferred his activities to the Galloways and became
a leading promoter of that breed in the early and
middle eighties.

Two Marion county herds which existed from
1873 to 1888, producing a good many Shorthorns
from which a few cattle now living are descended,
were those of A. H. and H. H. Lackey. There
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thing better than medium cattle. The Lackeys
were quite good advertisers and enjoyed a liberal
patronage. Another Marion county herd of the
same time was that of John Kraft who bought in
Canada the bull, Lord Barrington 36022 and the
cow, Lady Aileen 2d. The records show only
one heifer produced from this cow.

W. ©. Bancroft of Solomon Rapids was one of
the first breeders, if not the first, in Mitchell
county. In 1877 he bought of N. L. Chaffee of
Manhattan, a lot of cows that were sired by the
excellent bulls, Oxford Wiley, imp. Clarendon,
Ist Grand Duke of Kansas and Red Wiley, a son
of Oxford Wiley. The general opinion is that
the Chaffee cattle were a very desirable lot.

At one of the numerous sales held by J. C. &
George Hamilton in Kansas City, T. J. Peters
of Osage county bought three cows. Two were
by Duke of Noxubee and one by Earl of Barring-
ton, both well Known and very popular sires.
This purchase was made in 1879 and Myr. Peters
continued his operations for a few years.

EK. R. Brown of Pottawatomie county bred
Shorthornus from about 1872 to 1880, A peculiar
feature of lis work was that he recorded 10
cattle carlier than vol, 20.

In 1879 Geo. 'T. Polson of Riley county bought
four cows from the well known and then pop-
ular herds of A. M. Winslow & Sons and Wil-
lian: Stevenson & Sons. Before the end of
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the year the cows produced one heifer and two
bull calves. Another Riley county herd that was
established about this time or a little earlier was
that of John J. Lovett. Some of his cattle were
very good and some were of quite medium qual-
ity. He kept his herd only a short time, selling
some to local breeders and some to the Hamiltons
of Kentucky, who put them in their Kansas City
sales.

Late in the seventies Lanson Eaton bought a
number of good cattle from James O’Neal & Son
and other local breeders which were kept for a
few years on his Shawnee county farm.
SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 1880-1920

A quarter of a century had passed since R. A.
Alexander imported Duke of Airdrie and set him
to work in the great herd at Woodburn. Duke
of Airdrie proved a sire of extraordinary bulls
that fairly made the reputation of the Bates
cattle throughout the western Shorthorn country.
Abram Renick bred one of his Rose of Sharon
cows to him and secured Airdrie 2478, the bull
that made the Rose of Sharons famous on both
sides of the water.

Leading breeders all over the country wanted
Bates bulls and those of secondary mniportance
wanted the Rose of Sharons. They indulged in
speculation in pedigrees so that cattle with little
to recommend them except that they were of
fashionable blood, sold for several times more
than far better ones descended from better ances-
try. Thousands of dollars were paid for ped-
igrees called pure or straight, or on the strength
of an ancestor of whose blood nothing remained
but the name. Thousands of dollars were de-
ducted for the msertion, ever so fav back, of a so-
called unfashionable cross. This situation cul-
minated in the great New York Mills sale with
its $40,600 for 8th Duchess of Geneva, a cow
normally near the end of her usefulness.
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Many leading American breeders had refused
to be stampeded or to worship at the shrine of
ancient ancestry. Among these were William
Warfield who through sane and sensible methods
produced real cattle; J. H. Pickrell, later see-
retary of The American Shorthorn Breeders
Association; James N. Brown & Sons; J. H.
Potts & Son of Duke of Richmond fame; J. H.
Kissenger, associate of Mr. Pickrell; and C. E.
Leonard who made the name of Ravenswood fa-
miliar. These level-headed men failed to stem the
tide, but they saved the breed for America.

The Hamiltons of Kentucky virtually invaded
Kansas at the close of the seventies and with the
ery of “Flat Creek Marys” created a demand for
Young Mary bulls. Flat Creek Mary was de-
scended from imp. Young Mary, a cow probably
without a peer among imported Shorthorns. The
vear 1880 found good Shorthorn herds here and
there and also herds of badly hattered and in-
jured cattle whose owners were trying to main-
tain the prestige of the breed against Herefords
and Angus, then being brought into the West in
large numbers. Although Kansas had to some ex-
tent been made the dumping ground for inferior
specimens vet there were many good Shorthorns
in the state, a considerable proportion of which
would be called good even now.

The time was ripe for a change from the old
system of selection by pedigree to the sensible
62 A THSTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

one of selection for individual merit and quality
of immediate ancestry. It required only a com-
mander-in-chief to rally the people of America
to the standard of right thinking and it fell to
Kansas to furnish the man, W. A. Harris of Lin-
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W. A. Harris.—Col. W. A. Harris, soldier,
statesman and leading American breeder of
Shorthorns, was a shining example of a man who
could have accumulated great wealth but who un-
selfishly gave himself to others. Asa breeder he
stands alone in that he dared to stem the tide and
dared to do what seemed best at the risk of in-
curring the disapproval of his fellow breeders.
A born leader, Col. Harris sueceeded in aeccom-
plishing on his Leavenworth county farm, what
no other breeder in America since his day has
accomplished. What Amos Cruickshank was to
Scotland, Col. Harris was to the country west of
the Mississippi and especially to Kansas. It is
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fitting that the account of the period from 1880
to the present be begun with the story of the
achievements of W. A. Harris.

It was in the fall of 1880 or a little later, that
J.C. Stone, Jr. of Leavenworth had bought a lot
of bull calves of W. E. Simmes of Kentucky.
They were all the popular Bates, crossed or
straight Bates breeding, except one, a red, calved
December 3, 1879, called Golden Drop of Hill-
hurst. He was by the fashionably bred 4th Duke
of Hallhurst and his dam was by the equally pop-
war 7th Earl of Oxford, but his grandam was
a plainly bred cow, Wastell’s Golden Drop 4th
bred in Scotland by one Sylvester Campbell. This
ealf was not considered especially desirable and
Mr. Stone may have taken him in order to close
the deal. In any event it is not likely that he
took him from choice,

Col. Harris saw this young bull and, asserting
that independence which led hin to buy a red and
white bull while evervthing except dark red was
being tabooed, and a roan cow when roans were
not wanted in good herds, he bought this bull,
Golden Drop of Hillhurst. Mr. Sanders says
it was through this bull that Mr. Harris became
favorably inclined toward Scoteh cattle. At any
rate, after a year’s ownership of this fellow, 75
per cent Bates and 25 per cent Scotch, he decided
to look for a Scotch bull and at the sale held by
J. H. Kissenger of Missouri on May 3, 1882, he
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bought imp. Baron Victor of Mx. Cruickshank’s
breeding. He also bought three cows, Victoria
63d, Victoria 69th and Violet Bud. The bull
cost #1100 and the cows, $530, $890 and $450.
Baron Victor was at once freely used, not only on
the cows bought with him, but also on the Bates
crossed cows in the herd. Results were next to
marvelous. In the section tributary to Kansas
City nothing like the Baron Victor calves had
been seen, more especially nothing equal to the
ealves that were not from Cruickshank cows.
Two of these calves were offered at the Breeders
Sale in Kansas City and the battle was won for
the Cruickshank kind.

Col. Harris decided to buy more cows of Mr.
Cruickshank’s breeding and within a year he
added Barmpton Violet, Gladiolus, Gardenia,
Lavender 32d, Marsh Violet and Sorrel, all bred
by Mr. Cruickshank. He also bought Butterfly
2d, Harmony 2d and Ury 11th of Scotch extrae-
tion but somewhat Bates crossed.

It is said that Col. Harris was a good sales-
man but he was also a liberal buyer of the import-
ed Cruickshank cows and other good cattle wher-
ever he found them. Tbe Warfield bred heifer,
Primrose, by 2d Duke of Grasmere was bought
and bred to Baron Victor. She produced Dr.
Primrose that became a noted show bull in the
Williams & Householder herd. Col. Harris fur-
ther violated the conventionalities by buying
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Norton’s Golden Drop by the Bates bull, imp.
Underley Wild Eyes, and from her he bred Gol-
den Knight, a bull used with marked suecess in
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PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE BUST OF COL. W. A. HARRIS.
—Courtesy Breeder’s Gazette.
66 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Golden Drop, he bred the Golden Drop family
and the verdict of those familiar with the oper-
ations of Col. Harris is that the Golden Drops
were the crowning triumph of his work as a
breeder. It is of interest to know that Golden
Lord, the last bull used in the herd, was out of
Norton’s Golden Drop and by Lord Mayor, a
bull of his own breeding. Lord Mayor was one
of the best bulls of the breed and was used in
Kansas for fifteen years.

Shortly after the purchases of the Cruick-
shank cows mentioned above, Col. Harris added
Golden Thistle and Lavender 36th by Roan
Gauntlet and Lavender 33d and Sapphire by
Barmpton. Among later purchases were Lady
of the Meadow, the dam of Lord Mayor; Barinp-
ton Crocus; Lavender 38th; the Duchess of
Gloster trio, the 26th, 27th and 28th Duchesses
of Gloster; Wood Violet; Lovely 41st; Victoria
76th; Stephanotis whose descendants became
famous in the herds of 8. C. Hanna and H. M.
Hill; Lady of Shallott; Vera; March Violet, and
the greatest of all, imp. Princess Alice by Field
Marshal.

At about the time Col. Harris had reached the
point where financial returns would have been
heavy under normal conditions, the country was
suffering from an era of low prices and the cat-
tle market was such as to discourage production.
Many good herds were sold and the demand for
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 67

the product of this herd fell to the lowest level.
The output was, however, taken as rapidly as
produced. It should be borne in mind that the
foundation for the Linwood herd had been laid
from the best Shorthorns then in the world and
from a herd which had admittedly reached its
highest possible stage of perfection.

The problem Col. Harris had to solve was one
which has always been hard for the breeder. So
good an authority as Mr. Sanders tells us the
resort to inbreeding as practiced by Thomas
Bates, Abram Renick and Amos Cruickshank
has given the world its greatest triumphs but it
has been found exceedingly difficult to maintain
the standard of excellence in cattle so produced.
It is stated on the best of authority that Col.
Harris had serious trouble along this line. An
old Shorthorn breeder of sound judgment who
was a frequent visitor at Linwood has told me
that had it been at all advisable to use such a bull
as the best of Mr. Vaile’s production crossed with
a Cruickshank cow, or the reverse, the result
would have been a splendid thing for the Lin-
wood herd. This, of course, is a theory, sub-
stantially supported by practice, but with the dis-
crimination shown in favor of Cruickshank cat-
tle at that period, little more could have been
done than was being done by using Norton’s
Golden Drop. That the bull question was a ser-
ious one is well told by Mr. Sanders who was
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closely associated with the work done at Linwood
and Mr. Sanders -lso states that in this respect
breeders of Great Britain are being shown more
consideration than is shown in America.

It was to the credit of the people of Kansas
that the political wheel of fortune caught the
proprietor of the magnificent Linwood herd
and made him first congressman-at-large, then
United States senator. Old breeders will not
adnut that Shorthorn interests were served in
these honors bestowed on Col. Harris. It was im-
possible to maintain a goodly degree of success
with a herd already up to such a point of ex-
cellence, in the absence of the owner, especially
under the unfavorable conditions prevailing at
that time. Col. Harris had no choice but to offer
his herd at pubhe sale. Accordingly a dispersion
sale was held May 6, 1896, when sixty-three head
sold at an average of $205. After serving six
years in the senate, Col. Harris entered the em-
ploy of the American Shorthorn Breeders Asso-
ciation in which position he served Shorthorn
interests until the time of his death. Breeders
of Kansas and of the whole nation have honored
the memory of Col. Harris by placing a statue
on the grounds of the Kansas State Agricultural
College at Manhattan.

Kansas State Agricultural College.—The his-
tory of the Shorthorn cattle at the Kansas State
Agricultural College begins with the year 1873
70 A HISTORY OF SHORTIIORNS IN KANSAS

when Fred E. Miller, farm foreman, and Regent
Hudson purchased from Andrew Wilson of
Shawnee county, the bull Zena King 151801
($400), and the heifers Grace Young 4th ($800),
Grace Young 5th ($1080), and Kate Kee ($400).
Grace Young 5th proved to be a remarkable
breeder and left on the college farm a family of
high class cattle. The best cow now owned by the
college and one the equal of any cow in any herd
is a descendant of the cow Grace Young 5th.

On April 1, 1874 Professor E. M. Shelton
assumed the duties of Professor of Agriculture.
He was much interested in live stock and built
up a very high class herd of Shorthorns at the
college. The splendid herd bulls used is a good
index to the kind of cattle produced by the college
and reflects great credit upon the farsightedness
and the splendid interest in live stock shown by
the men in charge of the Department of Agricul-
ture.

In 1876 the bull Second Duke of Jubilee 19498
bred by J. M. Woodruff was purchased from
Durham Park. The herd being comparatively
small it was necessary to secure another bull as
soon as the heifers by Second Duke of Jubilee
reached breeding age. A. W. Rollins of Manhat-
tan very generously loaned the use of the bull
Delight Duke 32132 during the fall of 1878.

In 1879 Prince Constance 36546, bred by A. M.
Winslow & Sons, was purchased. The bull Earl
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 71

vf Sharon 43647 bred by A. Renick was used in
1881 and on May 12, 1882 Paymaster 46722 bred
by J. W. Burgess was purchased from Durham
Park. In 1884 he was suceeeded by Grand
Gwynne 56310 bred by Wm. Warfield from
whom he was purchased.

Professor Shelton early saw the advantage and
value of Scotch Shorthorns and purchased the
Cruickshank bred Thistle Top 83876 from Jas.
Davidson of Canada in 1886. This bull cost the
college #600. The same year June 8, Professor
Shelton consigned eight heifers and seven year-
ling bulls to the Bill & Burnhain sale. The col-
lege bred cattle outsold the other cattle by a nice
margin. In 1888 Scottish Chief 89517 by imp.
Julius 56643, bred by I. Barr & Sou, was added to
the herd.

In 1890 C. C. Georgeson succeeded Prof-
fessor Shelton as Professor of Agriculture.
Professor Georgeson was keenly interested in
live stock and through his untiring efforts a great
deal was done toward solving many perplexing
problems confronting the live stock producers of
Kansas. In looking back over the work done by
Professor Georgeson and taking into consider-
ation the trying conditions under which he
worked, one can not help but realize that when
Professor Georgeson left the college, Kansas
lost one of the biggest and best men that was ever

connected with this institution.
72 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Soon after taking charge Professor Georgeson
traded Scottish Chief to Col. W. A. Harris for
imp. Royal Pirate 100640 bred by A. Cruick-
shank. On June 3, 1891 imp. Royal Pirate was
traded back to Col. Harris for imp. Craven
Knight 96923 by Cumberland 50626 and on Jan-
uary 24, 1894 Professor Georgeson traded
Craven Knight to Col. Harris for Golden Knight
108086, a son of imp. Craven Knight out of a
Golden Drop cow. Excellent results were se-
cured by breeding Craven Knight heifers to
Golden Knight. The college was exceedingly
fortunate in having been able to secure such a
worthy sire as Craven Knight at the head of its
herd.

In 1897 a great calamity befell the live stock
interests of the Kansas State Agricultural Col-
lege. It had been suspicioned for some time that
tuberculosis was present in the college herd.
Professor Georgeson received permission to
have the entire herd tested with tuberculin.
Thirty-four per cent of the cattle tested reacted.
Of all those reacting only two showed any phys-
ical symptoms of the disease. These two were
destroyed and showed typical lesions. The other
cattle were placed in quarantine for observation
and further testing. Professor Georgeson
recommended that the cattle be isolated and stud-
ied with the hope that some method other than
ruthless slaughter night be discovered whereby
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this disease could be controlled and eradicated.
It might be worth mentioning that not a single
one of the inbred Craven Knight heifers re-
acted to the tuberculin test.

About this time Professor Georgeson resigned
and was succeeded by Professor H. M. Cottrell,
and he recommended that all diseased cattle be
killed. The herd was retested by Dr. Fisher.
Dr. Jas. Law of Cornell and Dr. T. A. Geddes
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture were
called to counsel with Dr. Fisher in regard to the
result of the test. After careful deliberation it
was decided to kill all reacting cattle. On Oc-
tober 20-21 these cattle were killed and a public
post-mortem was held by Doctors Law, Geddes,
and Fisher before a large number of veterinar-
ians, stockmen and others. Every reacting ani-
mal was found to be tubercular.

An influential Kansas agricultural paper had
for years been bitterly opposed to the idea of the
college owning any pure bred live stock. This
opposition, aided by the political situation at that
time, lead to an order from the Board of Regents
that all pure bred live stock remaining on the col-
lege farm be disposed of at once. In comphance
with this order a public sale was held at the col-
leze in November 1897. Golden Kiight, the bull
that had proved himself such an excellent sive,
went to the herd of J. H. Taylor of Dickinson
county for $190.
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It soon became evident that the Board of
Regents had made a serious mistake when it
issued the order that no pure bred live stock
should be kept on the college fari, and Professor
Jottrell was finally permitted in 1901 to pur-
chase pure bred representatives of several breeds
of live stock. In this purchase were three Short-
horns. The same year a Shorthorn heifer
was donated to the college by T. K. Tomson &
Sons of Dover.

Professor Cottrell resigned early in 1902 and
the live stock work was placed in charge of a
dairy husbandman. This arrangement continued
until September 1905 when a separate depart-
ment of Animal Husbandry was created and R.
J. Kinzer placed in charge as Professor of
Animal Husbandry. The growth of the depart-
ment under Professor Kinzer was little short of
marvelous. The Shorthorn herd he built up
from 1905 to 1911 without any appropriation
from the legislature was one of which any breed-
ey would have been proud.

The first Shorthorn bull used was Ravenswood
Adiniration, a son of Lavender Viscount out of
a granddaughter of Cumberland 50626. He was
followed by Lavender Viceroy 223936, another
son of Lavender Viscount out of a daughter of
Baron Lavender 2d 72610. One of his sons,
Orange Lavender 299670, dropped on the college
farm in 1906, was the next bull used. St. Clair
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306509, a Marr bred ‘Clara’? imported in dain,
was loaned the college by Tomson Bros. during
the winter of 1909-1910. He proved himself to
be a wonderfully good sire but he got away before
his first crop of calves made their appearance.
The bull Sentinel 317021 purchased from Tomson
Bros. was used for two seasons and then Mateh-
less Dale 291609 calved December 12, 1906 by
Avondale 245144 out of Matchless Mist, came
upon the scene having been purchased in the
International Shorthorn sale at Chicago in Dee-
ember 1911 for the sum of $400.

T. O. Ford, Montgomery County.—Mr. Ford’s
first purchases were made at the big Hamilton
sale at Kansas City in 1878, and consisted of one
bull and five cows from the noted herd of T.
Corwin Anderson of Kentucky. While bis herd
assuined only local importance, the close times
of the eighties found him with more than
100 Shorthorns on hand. In about 1887
Mr. Ford needed a good bull. Bulls were cheap
but money was searce. Through the writer he
arranged a deal for Grand Airdrie, a Hamilton
bred son of the $10,000 imp. Grand Duke of Gen-
eva, giving the choice of his cow herd in ex-
change. Grand Airdrie, measured by Bates
standard, was a good bull, yet the deal proved
to be a mistake which Mr. Ford soon afterward
corrected by the purchase of Scottish En-
peror. Only those who went through this period
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with a large herd can realize how great were Mr.
Ford’s trials. In 1893 he sold a number of cows
to H. M. Hill and a little later Mr. Hill bought
the entire herd including Scottish Emperor. This
was Mr. Hill’s initiation in the Shorthorn busi-
ness and while prices were so low that httle
profit accrued, yet he did well on the Ford cattle.

C. M. Gifford & Sons, Clay County.—This
was one of the most favorably known firms of
breeders in the northeast section of the state.
Operations were begun by Gifford & Sons late
in the seventies and by 1882 they had a good
sized herd. In the fall of that year they bought
the red and white, Cordelia’s Duke, a popular
Renick Rose of Sharon bull that had been a good
winner at the leading western shows. He was
used with other bulls of similiar breeding. The
herd occupied a prominent position and was
later kept up by F. M. Gifford, the junior part-
ner. Mr. Gifford made no effort to breed his
cattle along any straight line but the general
opinion is that he raised good cattle. Some years
ago he sold the entire lot to S. B. Ameoats and it
was from these cattle that many of the good
things on the Amcoats farm have been bred. The
herd until recently owned by Warren Watts of
Clay Center is also descended from Gifford bred
cattle and the output of the herd has been used
by numerous others as a foundation.

John McCoy, Brown County.—John McCoy, a
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native of Ireland, came to Kansas in 1872. In
1878 he bought his first Shorthorn cow at W. S.
White’s sale for $100. In 1881 he bought a red

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN McCoy J. W. HYDE
A pioneer breeder A breeder since 1870

and white bull, Craig, by Loudon Duke 6th of
Cowan’s and shortly thereafter he secured four
cows from the Cowan herd. ‘‘They were good
ones and they would be good ones now’’, Mr.
McCoy told me. A succession of high class bulls
was used. With judicious care and feeding, Mr.
McCoy, unhampered by fads, with only real
Shorthorn quality in mind, developed his herd
into one of great excellence. A further account
of the work of John McCoy & Son is given later
in this volume. Mr. McCoy must be considered
75 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

one of the constructive breeders of the state.
Now at seventy-nine years of age he enjoys
showing the results of his efforts and telling of
the bulls that did the work. Among these Pride
of Collynie by imp. Collynie out of imp. Mistle-
toe 15th, is given first place.

Wm. P. Higinbotham, Riley County.—Mr.
Higinbotham was a banker in Manhattan who
engaged in raising Shorthorns on a large tract
of land northwest of that city. Beginning in
about 1880 with stock bought locally, at the Ham-
ilton sales, and at Durham Park, his herd grew
to be a large one. Being a good advertiser, Mr.
Higinbotham kept his work prominently before
the people of the state for several years. In 1884
he bought Double Gloster, a red bull of Mr.
Cruickshank’s breeding. He believed there was
something in a name and nearly all the Double
Gloster heifers were given names which would
arouse the interest of any devotee of the Cruick-
shanks, Duchess of Gloster with numerous pre-
fixes having been commonly used. The Blue
Valley herd was quite a good one and, had con-
ditions been more favorable, Mr. Higinbotham
might have done well but he lived in a day when
the best of cattlemen went broke. <A financial
failure and a dispersion of the herd ended a
bright prospect for success.

Hanna & Co.-S. C. Hanna, Elk County.—In
1882 S. GC. Hanna, associated with his cousin
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Geo. 8S. Hanna of Ilinois under the firm name of
Hanna & Co., bought a lot of Shorthorn cows
from John D. Gillett, of Elkhart, Tinois. Mr.
Hanna describes these as wonderful cattle but
they took no pedigrees, simply using them for
beef producing purposes.

About 1886 they bought of Elbert & Fall of
Albia, Iowa, a lot of Bates Shorthorns and at
Col. Harris’ Kansas City sale the same year a
yearling heifer named Spirea was bought for
$65. At F. Bellows & Sons’ dispersion they
bought Red Queen, Silver Maid and Georgia
by imp. Seotechman. In about 1894 at the Potts
dispersion they secured Lavender of Oakland
4th and Sempstress of Oakland Sth, 7th and 8th;
also two Fannie Airdries. These were the tops
of the sale. Sempstress 5th was in calf to imp.
King of Aberdeen and produced a bull calf that
under the name of Oakland was used in the herd.
The Lavender cow was sold to Col. Casey before
leaving produce in the herd. Most of the Elbert
& Fall cattle were sold to E. K. Thomas of
Kentucky, a few years after their purchase. In
1897 they bought the show cow, Gay Lady, a
daughter of Gay Monarch. This wonderful cow
weighed 2000 pounds when weaning a calf but
show ring requirements had ruined her as a
breeder and at eight years old she was sent fo
market, a barren cow. Up to this time the pur-
chases had been made from severai sources bring-
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ing in Scoteh as well as Bates blood and a blend-
ing of the two.

In 1898 the firm wanted more good Scotch
cows and found the demand had so increased
the price in the United States as to make it al-
inost prohibitive. They met for consultation and
ascertained that a number of breeders were soon
going to Seotland for cattle. They decided to
head off the crowd and in less than a week 8. C.
Hanna was on the road to Liverpool and to Mr.
Duthie’s and Mr. Marr’s. He made purchases of
ten heifers and several bulls that have been
makers of history for the entire Southwest. ‘¢ My.
Duthie offered me all his heifer calves except
seven at $150 each’’, Mr. Hanna told me, ‘‘and
I failed to land the chance of a lifetime’’. The
ten females bought, as well as the bulls, were the
choice of the best herds in Scotland and cost
#250 a head, a price which, viewed from a later
period, seems almost incredible. At Dean Willis’
Mr. Hanna saw Bapton Pearl, just returned
from the shows. He could probably have bought
her for much less than the price for which she
later sold, but of course, he could not forecast
the story of Whitehall Sultan. At Mr. Marr’s
the two heifers selected were Princess Royal 62d
and Emma 338d and it took considerable per-
suasion to pry them loose.

On his return journey Mr. Hanna met Mr.
Forbes on his way to Mr. Duthie’s, where he
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paid double the price Mr. Hanna had been asked
to pay. The consignment as finally shipped
from Scotland included the Hanna purchase, a
lot for F. W. Harding and the bull Merry Hamp-
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Mr. Duthie had promised Mr. Hanna that he
would find a thoroughly competent man to care
for the cattle until landed in their new homes.
How well he kept his word the reader will sce
in the fact that Peter Ross was the man he
selected. In telling of this incident, Mr. Hanna
remarked, ‘‘And Peter may have been the most
valuable part of the importation. I could have
secured his services but allowed Mr. Harding to
outbid me. Of course, I did not know this at the
time.”’

The heifers that reached Palo Duro farm at
Howard were Roseleaf and Primrose 4th by
Scottish Archer, Mistletoe 15th, Golden Queen
and Lavender Lass from Mr. Duthie; Circe 3d
bred by John Wilson; Dalmena Mina 5th bred by
S. Campbell; and Lady Spicy bred by Mr. Bruce.
These were all purchased from Mr. Duthie.
Princess Royal 62d and Emma 33d were bought
from Mr. Marr. The bulls bought were Mariner
bred by Mr. Marr and Scottish Pride and Colly-
nie bred by Mr. Duthie. With the exception of
Lady Spicy that died of milk fever and Lavender
Lass that died in calving the heifers all proved
valuable breeders. Emma 33d became the dam of
Inglewood, the highest priced bull sold until
recent year's at an American Royal sale. Mistle-
toe 15th produced Captain Archer, Mr. Stodder’s
famous sire and Swect Mistletoe, the dam of the
$4100 Imperial Mistletoe and the 1919 Inter-
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national champion, Lespedeza Collynie. Prin-
cess Royal 62d was the dam of Prince Royal,
used for years by Mi. Hanna. Roseleaf was the

 

 

 

 

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IMPORTED MISTLETOE 15th AND IMPORTED PRINCESS
ROYAL 62d
dam of Rosewood, the excellent sire in the Brook-
over herd and later in My. Hill’s herd. Dalmena
Mina Sth was the dam of Kinnelar, used by Mr.
Hill. Circe 3d was the dam of Tomson’s great
bull, Archer. Primrose 4th produced a lot of
excellent heifers that developed into some of the
best cows in the herd. Golden Queen was a great
produeer and left many valuable descendants.
Mariner, the oldest of the bulls, was used by Mr.
Hanna and later sold to Mr. Hill where he sired
a lot of large, beefy cattle. He was the sire of
Golden Day used one season in the T. P. Babst
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herd where he got a wonderful lot of cows. Scot-
tish Pride was sold in Illinois instead of being
brought to Kansas.

It is around the calf Collynie, the baby of the
importation, that the history of the Hanna herd
must center; but before taking up this subject,
I shall go back to tell of some deals made in Kan-
sas that left an impress on the herd and on
southwestern cattle, equal to anything that came
from the importation. The reader will have
noted that Mr. Hanna bought the heifer Spiraea
at the Harris sale for $65. She was by imp.
Royal Pirate and her dam was imp. Stephanotis,
the dam of Scarlet Knight and one of the best
cows in the Linwood herd. He had also bought
of Col. Harris a bull named Robin, a son of imp.
Spartan Hero and out of a Bates bred cow. Not-
withstanding his Bates dam, Mr. Hanna had the
courage of his convictions and he bred the
daughter of the great cow Stephanotis to the bull
Robin. A white heifer, Lilac, a good cow and
a great breeder, was the result. She was bred to
Royal Knight, a son of Col. Harris’ magnificent
daughter of Field Marshal, imp. Princess Alice,
and produced Syringia, one of the best cows of
the breed. Royal Knight had been used freely
by Mr. Hanna for two years when his accidental
death by drowning occurred, and had left many
eood females, so that in the early nincties
the herd comprised the imported cows and
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A HISTORY OF SHOKTHORNS IN) KANSAS 85

an equally valuable lot. of cows bred on the
farin.

Collynie really began his hfe’s work in the
Tebo Lawn herd, Mr. Hanna having leased him
to Col. Casey for $1000 for twelve months use.
After his return to Palo Duro, he was used to
the limit, siring a class of cattle that as feeders
had few equals. A little plainness, especially in
the hind quarters was frequently observed, but
the Collynie cows were great breeders and suck-
lers and the bulls, as a whole, were great sires.
The improvement made through the Collynie
blood and the good cows in the herd, extended
from the Missouri river to the Gulf. The
occasional adverse criticism on account of the
plainness mentioned could not disprove the fact
that these cattle made more pounds of high
priced beef from the coarse feeds of the farm
than almost any other Shorthorns in the terri-
tory.

Besides Collynie, there was used the excellent
young bull Inglewood, a son of nnp. Emma 33d.
He was the sire of Inglemaid, the dam of My.
Hill’s Ingle Lad. When Mr. Hanna was at Mr.
Duthie’s he was greatly impressed with Cowslip
26th, a cow of mixed English breeding. She had
been the leading show cow in Great Britain and
Mr. Duthie had bought her with a view of getting
a bull to use on his Cruickshank cattle. He
promised Mr. Hanna a buli from her as soon as
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he could spare one and following this arrange-
ment, Lord Cowslip by the show bull, Lord of
Fame, came to the farm. His disposition was
not the best and his calves may have been scarcely
up to the desired standard, hut he was freely
used and the fresh blood infused became very
valuable. His daughters bred to  Collynie
as well as to Hampton Spray produced splen-
didly.

A most fortunate purchase made as a successor
to Collynie was the white Dustin bred bull Ham-
pton Spray, a strongly line bred Merry Hamp-
ton. He was bought as a calf from N. H. Gentry
and was the subject of much criticisin by men
who thought they knew; but he matured into a
great individual and as a breeder, especially a
getter of heifers, it is doubtful if he had a
superior in the state.

Toward the end of 1915 Mr. Hanna, who was
not very rugged, felt 1t would be best to close up
his business. He decided to sell the herd and here
is the story as he told it. ‘*Col. Supies of Tulsa
and W. 8. Fears of Broken Arrow came over
and I sold them a few head. Then John Kramer,
representing Mr. Gillispie, came, and having no
children to whom to leave things and not wanting
Mrs. Hanna to be burdened in case of my death, I
sold the rest of the cattle to him in less than
thirty minutes. He took the whole lot at my own
price, which was not half thei value, but I did
 

 

 

 

 

THE ONLY PICTURE EVER TAKEN OF IMPORTED COLLYNIE
He is g That is the way Shorthorns of the right kind live and fatten, ‘

 
 
  
83 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

not know it at the time. When I sold them, they
were the greatest herd I ever saw.”’

This is the story of a great herd of Shorthorn
cattle, told without any attempt to boast. The
monument of their greatness is found all over the
country. [cannot finish the story without telling
something of the owner. M1. Hanna was born in
Attica, Indiana in 1850. When 31 years old he
came to Kansas and the story of his herd is the
story of his life until four years ago. Mr. and
Mrs. Hanna were childless, but they raised two
children, who after being grown and cducated,
died. Mrs. Hanna passed away two years ago
and Mr. Hanna is living in his old home in How-
ard. Recently two nieces, his nearest relatives,
came to make their home with him. When I
visited him he was happy in anticipating their
arrival. No man ever identified with Shorthorn
interests in Kansas is more highly respected than
is Mr. Hanna. Modest, unassuming, and thor-
oughly honest, he has a knowledge of affairs in
general and especially of Shorthorn affairs that
has given him a keen insight and unusual jude-
ment which he has used not only to his own ad-
vantage, but also for the benefit of the entire
country.

T. K. Tomson & Sons, Shawnee County.—It
was at a farm sale near Dover, in the fall of 1886
that T. Ix. Tomson, father of Tomson Bros., made
the first investment in a registered Shorthorn
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female. The sale ineluded a rather large offer-
ing of grade Shorthorns and one registered cow,
Betsy, a descendant of imp. Young Mary. Mr.
Tomson made the high bid, $80, on her and later
in the sale purchased her yearling bull, Wabaun-
see, for $100. Betsy was in ealf and the following

 

TK. LOMSON

A man Who builded better than he knew.

 
QO A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

spring dropped a level, deep-bodied, red heiter
which was named Betsy Dailey, Dailey being the
name of the former owner of Betsy.

It was the attractive outlne and the thrift-
iness of this heifer calf, Betsy Dailey, that made
such an impression on the Tomson boys that they
urged their father to acquire a few more regis-
tered females. This was done to a limited extent
and by the summer of 1888 there was a herd of
a dozen females of miscellaneous breeding on the
farm. Another bull was obtained at a mortgage
sale in which a bank was winding up the affairs
of some unfortunate. The bull, Phyllis Duke,
was included im the offering and sold in this
forced sale for the fabulous price of $25
less five per cent discount, net $23.75.

Gradually the pure bred cattle increased and
the herd was kept to the desired number by dis-
posing of the surplus grades, a very sunple plan
in the building of a valuable herd at a small out-
lay. In the early nineties an incident occurred
that proved of great value to the Tomson breed-
ing operations. The well known breeder of that
time, T. P. Babst, also of Dover, maintained a
large herd and had in use the imported bull, This-
tle Top, selected originally by Amos Cruick-
shank, his breeder, for Colonel W. A. Harris
for use in the celebrated Linwood herd, where he
was kept in service for two or three years. He
was then acquired by My. Babst and as his heifers
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 91

accuinulated in the herd he exchanged him with
the Thompsons of Amity, Missouri for Scottish
Chief, also an aged bull and sire of many worthy
animals, anong them the great breeding cow,
Rosedale Violet 9th. It happened as is often the
case that neither bull proved sure during the
few months following their change of location
and the owners decided to change back again.
Upon a query from the Tomsons as to what Mr.
Babst intended to do with Thistle Top they were
advised that they could have him at a very nom-
inal cost. He was then eight years old and there,
of course, existed some uncertainty as to his use-
fulness. He was purchased and for four years
proved a sure breeder.

Thistle Top was a red possessing more than
usual scale, weighing approximately 2400
pounds with great depth and unusual flesh cover-
ine. Ile was a wonderful feeder. His form was
compact, his quarters well rounded and he had
a thick coat of curly hair, characteristics whicb
he transmitted generally to his get. He was one of
the most richly bred of Cruickshank’s pro-
ductions. His daughters were given preference
in the Tomson herd and soon it was largely com-
posed of growthy, thick-meated, roomy cows by
hin.

Fromthe time the first bull calves were
offered for sale there was a gradual increase in
the values but at best they held to a low level for
92 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

the worth of a pure bred bull as compared wits
a grade was not generally understood at that
time by farmers and cattle growers. Naturally
the neighboring farmers contended there was
little value to the pure bred feature and that
those engaged in fancy stock breeding were very
apt to lose out financially. One of these neigh-
bors who was something of a steer feeder
happened along one evening as the Tomsons were
loading a ten-inonth bull calf into the wagon of a
man who had driven over from another neighhor-
hood. After the calf was sately loaded the man
wrote a check for the amount agreed upon and
drove away. When he had departed the neighbor
said, ‘I’m curious to know what vou got for
that ealf.’?’ The cheek which ealled for $45 was
handed him. He read the amount and returning
it said, ‘‘By George, it does beat the steer busi-
ness, don’t it.’’ The amount, smal] as it seems
now, looked large at the time. Still the prices
kept advancing and in the course of a few months
thereafter the Thistle Top calves were leaving
the farm at prices ranging from $75 to $125 each.

When another bull was needed the elder Tom-
son and the youngest son, James, then a boy,
visited the Linwood farm in quest of the desired
herd-header. Leaving the train they walked to
the farm which was near the station and when
within one or two hundred yards of the buildings,
several calves came playfully around the corner
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of the barn. James immediately pointed to a
very compact, short-legged, red calf remarking,
‘“There’s the one we want.’’ His father replied,

 

GALLANT KNIGIT

‘He looks like a good one but we won’t do any
picking until we have looked them all over care-
fully.’’ James said, ‘‘That may be but that’s the
ealf we want.’’ And later this calf was pur-
chased. This was Gallant Knight, one of the best
productions of the Linwood herd during its long
years of existence. He was of the famous Gold-
endrop strain regarded as the most valuable of all
the worthy tribes that composed that noted herd.
94 A HISTORY OF SHORTIIORNS IN KANSAS

Gallant Knight combined the blood of imp. Bar-
on Victor, chief of all the sires ever used at Lin-
wood, and Craven Knight, rated as one of the
most beautiful of all the Cruickshank bulls im-
ported to this country. Gallant Knight attained
a weight somewhat in excess of 2200 pounds. He
was a marvel for compactness and smoothness
of form. Rarely has a bull been seen with such
wonderful quarters and such mnpressive, clean-
eut masculinity about the head and horn. For
nearly thirteen years he did service in the Tom-
son herd and for a dozen years his sons and
daughters, the latter particularly, were prom-
inent winners in the middle western fairs and
shows. The characteristics which always attract-
ed attention were their uniformity of type,
smoothness and compactness of form, depth, and
fleshing quality.

The first time that Gallant Knight appeared
in a show ring was at the American Royal at
Kansas City. He was then a three-year-old. The
judge was the late W. S. Van Natta of Indiana,
famed as a Hereford breeder. He placed Gal-
lant Knight second in class, awarding the first
to Lavender Viscount that at the time was earry-
ing a heavier flesh covering. When the ratings
were made and the animals left the ring Mr. Van
Natta followed Gallant Knight to his stall, the
cattle at that time being quartered on the second
floor of a building nearly a block away. Arriv-
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ing at the stall he said, ‘‘Boys, I don’t know who
you are but I’ve come to urge you never to sell
this bull. IT placed him second here only because
the other bull which won first is now in better
show form but this in my judgment is certain to
be a great sire, so I urge you not to sell him.’’
This manifest interest on the part of so exper-
ienced a breeder proved a decided encourage-
ment and confirmed the judgment of the
owners.

The storv of the Tomson herd after Gallant
Knight had made it well known in the West,
will be given in Part IT.

T. P. Babst & Sons, Wabaunsee County.—J ust
across the line from Shawnee county, a few miles
southwest of T. K. Tomson’s was kept for years
a Shorthorn herd that grew up with the country,
unproving and developing, until it became one
of the best in Kansas. There was nothing sen-
sational about its growth. Plain common sense,
combined with plenty of energy on the part of
the family in properly caring for the cattle, was
the whole secret of success.

The original cattle came from local breeders
but later some first class additions were made to
the herd. Ona day memorable in the history of
the herd, Lord Mayor, a red two-year-old bull
that had been used by Col. Harris, was bought.
Three hundred dollars, the price paid, must have
seemed exceedingly high. It was at about this

 
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time that I remember having lain awake nearly
all of one night wondering how I could manage to
get more than one cent a pound for an elegant
1000 pound grass fat heifer. It was a time that
tried cattle men’s nerve if not their souls. Short-
horn breeders shared in the general stress and the
#300 paid by Mr. Babst for what would now be a
#15000 bull may have made him feel guilty of
reckless extravagance.

Lord Mayor was a suceess and he made the
Bahbst herd as a really good bull will always
make a herd if given a chance. For years the
Lord Mayor cows were among the best individ-
uals and the hest breeders of all cows in the West.
One of them, Emily by name, was held in the
highest estimation at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College for the prize winning steers she
produced.

After Lord Mayor had demonstrated his value,
females worthy of a place in any herd were added
and many of the best cattle in the state are
descended from stock bred at Valley Grove, for
that was the name of the farm and the herd. One
of the notable purchases of cows was that of
three full sisters, Forest Daisy, Forest Daisy
2d and Forest Daisy 3d, all bred by B. O. Cowan
and sired by his excellent bull Norfolk, out of a
eranddaughter of imp. Severn Daisy. Two of
these cows were later sold to T. K. Tomson &
Sons and Forest Daisy 2d bred to Barmpton
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Knight, produced the sensational New Yeav’s
Delight.

In about 1909 the Babst herd was sold to
Tomson & Sons who kept the choicest of the cat-

 

T. P, BABST

tle. Mr. T. P. Babst moved to Topeka and early
in 1920 he passed out of life, a shining example
of suecess in Shorthorn production. The sons
are again engaged im producing reds, whites and
roans on the same farm made famous by old
Lord Mayor, one of the breed’s great bulls.

D. K. Kellerman & Son, Linn County.—This
herd was established in Ohio in 1876 by the pur-
chase of four heifers of the then popular Rose of
Sharon and Matilda families. In 1884 the junior
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partner, Geo. Tf. Kellerman, loeated near
Humboldt, bringing a few females and a bull
with him and in 1888 a farm was purchased near
Mound City to which the eattle on hand and a
car load of the best from the Ohio farm were sent.
Along with the cows eame a Renick Rose of
Sharon bull, the family at that time not having
recognized the great value of the Scotch cross.

Shortly after this a Seotch crossed bull was
bought of Col. Harris and he was followed by the
bull that made the herd. Armour Bearer by F.
Bellows & Sons’ Valley Champion, taken reluc-
tantly because he was a roan instead of the fash-
ionable red, got calves from these Ohio bred cows
that were in all respects equal to the best Scoteh
eattle of the day and the show yard record made
by this roan bull’s calves at the leading fairs,
including the American Royal, was not only an
enviable one but it was a tribute to the influence
of a good bull when erossed with practically un-
related cows. Armour Bearer lived only eighteen
months but during this period he had worked a
great change in the red herd. His calves were
nearly all roans and, while considered less val-
pable on this account, they sold at good prices on
their merits.

The first Cruickshank cow, 14th Linwood Lay-
ender by Baron Lavender 2d, was bought at Col.
Harris’ dispersion sale in 1896 and she produced
Lavender Dorrit, a bull later used with sueeess
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in the herd. After the loss of Armour Bearer
Lavender King 4th by imp. King of Aberdeen
was bought of J. H. Potts & Son. Asa ealf he
had been at the head of the Potts young herd at

 

 

 

 

 

 

G. F. KELLERMAN R. H. LISTER
Mound City Ottawa

the World’s Fair and was rated one among the
best prospects of his day. While he developed
into an excellent bull and did very satisfactory
service in the herd, his calves were not the equals
of those sired by Armour Bearer, a fact which,
however, was not to his discredit, the former
having probably been one of the greatest sires of
his day in America. Lavender King 4th was
followed by Orange Lad, an American Royal
prize winner.

The produce of this herd was well received by
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the buying public, a vearling heifer having sold
at the Royal sale for $400 in 1901. The herd was
dispersed in 1903, leading breeders in Kansas
and Missouri having been among the purchasers.
The famous Scotch Josephines shown by ©. 8.
Nevius were out of Kellerman bred cows. Des-
cendants of cows bred by D. K. Kellerman & Son
may be found in numerous herds in Kansas, Mis-
sourl and Oklahoma.

C. F. Wolf & Son, Franklin County.—This
firm was very prominent in Shorthorn circles
from 1895 to 1910. The first Shorthorn cow was
bought in 1885 and a vear later twenty-eight head
were added to the herd. In 1894 the Wolfs de-
cided to devote their entire attention to Short-
horns. They secured a car load of Ohio bred cows
from D. K. Kellerman & Son of Linn county and
a little later they bought several Scotch cows in-
eluding imp. Constance and imp. Pavonia, the
latter proving a very valuable producer,

The real effort for production dates from 1894
after which time only good bulls were used. Glen-
don, later sold to H. C. Dunean; Scotland’s
Charm by imp. Lavender Lad; imp. Prince Love-
ly, personally selected from Mr. Duthie’s herd by
the junior member in 1900; Tillyveaivna by inn.
Collynie; Royal Wanderer, a son of imp. Pav-
onia and Blythe Conqueror by inyp. Conqueror
were the principal bulls in service. Unfortunate-
ly Prince Lovely did not live long but the few
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calves he got proved the wisdom of his selection.
Scotland’s Charm was perhaps the most popular
of the bulls and, though not a show bull, he was
an excellent sire.

The firm did a big business not only in cattle
of their breeding but they bought from small
breeders and sold to them and during the entire
active period of their work they ranked with
the leading breeders of the state. The herd was
dispersed in 1910, the last sale having been that
of forty females to H. C. Lookabaugh, and a
number of these became foundation stock for the
Oklahoma herd.

Williams Bros., Greenwood County.—Will-
iaims Bros. were breeders in [linois and in about
1886 they moved a herd of twenty cows to a farm
six miles south of Kureka. They bought of Col.
Harris the extraordinary twelve-imonth-old show
bull, Dr. Primrose, and at once began a success-
ful show vard career. In about 1888 they com-
bined show herds with M. A. Householder of Col-
tunbus, and as Williams & Householder they ex-
hibited at the large fais of the Umted States,
Dr. Prunrose beme the leading winner. In 1891
Dr. Primrose was sold and in 1892 the entire
herd was sold to C. V. and J. P. Lodge of Mont-
icello, Illinois, E. M. Wilhaims retaining an
interest in the partnership. Ln 1892 Lodge Bros.
became convinced that tuberculosis prevailed in
the herd and the cattle were shipped to market.
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After Williams Bros. had disposed of the herd,
J. 1. Wiliams went to the Fort Worth stock-
yards and in 1895 E. M. Williams entered the
employ of Col. Casey, being in charge of the Tebo
Lawn show herd until his death in 1898 or 1899.

Mr. Householder for at least one season owned
imp. Cupbearer, the grand champion bull of
America. Details as to the connection of Will-
iams Bros. with the exhibition of this bull are
meager. LLouseholder, himsell, bred little stock
that ever found its way to record.

Henry Stunkel, Sumner County.—Mr. Stun-
kel’s first Shorthorns were purchased from Nov-
inger & Cain of Missouri in 1890. The lot con-
sisted of fifteen head of nicely bred cows with

some infusion of Seoteh blood. Two cows were’ * ’

secured soon afterward from Joseph and HH. ©.
Dunean. What was probably for some years the
largest herd in Kansas was built up from these
seventeen cows.

Mr. Stunkel’s methods were to buy the best
bulls he could get, to raise the heifers cheaply,
and to keep them, and to feed the voung bulls
heavily and sell them at profitable prices. The
result was having a cow herd not so attractive
as their breeding would warrant and as one
would naturally expect to see; but the use of high
class bulls made them good producers. This
system was kept up for fifteen years and Mr.
Stunkel at his death was a wealthy man with
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large land holdings near his home and _ else-
where.

The leading bulls in use were Victor Orange
and Star Goods, in fart the herd was founded
during almost its cntire existence on these two
bulls. Victor Orange was an unusual breeding
bull, and had he been given a chance to show well
developed daughters he would have taken rank as
one of the best bulls used in Kansas for years.
It is only now since his daughters are scattered
in many herds that he is being appreciated. Mr.
Hill, in his private herd catalog, devotes a full
page to Victor Orange. He was by the Bates
crossed Seotch Vietor Butterfiy out of a dam
by Searlet Knight. Star Goods was a full
brother to Bellows Bros.’ champion, Diamond
Goods, and was used on the Victor Orange cows.
Most breeders rated him hardly so good a sire
as Victor Orange.

Mr. Stunkel was taken sick at the Denver
Show and died shortly after reaching home in
March 1916. The entire herd of about 250 head,
including calves at foot, was sold in August at
administrator’s sale. The cattle were in poor
condition and brought an average of about $150.

D. P. Norton, Morris Counity.—D. P. Norton
was an enthusiast with a hobby that may not have
been devoid of common sense. Eis iiobby was
opposition to Bates cattle and methods and a
fixed determination to use bulls of Booth blood
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or at least as nearly without Bates blood as pos-
sible. He had a large herd southeast of Council
Grove near Dunlap and he sold cattle at fair
prices all over his section of Kansas. Taken as
a whole his cattle were good ones and T find
frequent instances of good herds descended from
Norton bred cows. Ma. Norton was an effective
advertiser and was one of the first to recognize
the value of the magic¢ term ‘imported.’ Pollow-
ing his custom of buying bulls ii Canada, Mr.
Norton bought British Lion. Ile went out to the
world as imp. British Lion. Technically this
title may have been correct yet its use violated
the Shorthorn custom. The Norton herd weath-
ered the worst of the hard times but ceased to
exist a number of years ago.

J. B. McAfee, Shawnee County.—Although
quite a preacher and considerable of a politician,
Mi. McAfee was also a good breeder of Short-
horns. He did not give his herd the publicity
some breeders gave their cattle, vet it is con-
ceded that he produced a class of Dig, smooth,
beefy Shorthorns. Some of the best thangs im
T. P. Babst’s herd were bred from McAtee cows
and one of the cows so bred went to the Kansas
State Agnieutural College where she produced
several outstanding show steers. Eh. W. MeAfee,
a son, bred Shorthorns on the farm a muuber of
years after Jis father retired from the business.
The location of the farm made a change im busi-
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ness advantageous and a dairy herd is now sup-
plying milk from the old establishment. There
is still a Shorthorn breeder, and a good one, in
the family, Harry T. Forbes, a grandson.

C. W. Taylor, Dickinson County.—John Tay-
lor, father of C. W. Taylor, was a Cincinnati
merchant. He traveled horseback over Kansas
in 1872 and bought a large tract of land in Dick-
inson county. Ue made up his mind that any
dry laud on which prairie grass would grow as
high as lis head when he was seated on a horse
would grow anything and he let that be the test.

Mr. Taylor gave each of his children a section
of the land with the injunction to hustle for a
hving. Besides the land C. W. Taylor received
elght Shorthorn cows purchased from the Lin-
wood herd and the bull Vandal used by Col.
Harris. From this start the Taylor herd grew
until it became one of the largest in Kansas,
frequently numbering 5800 head and its own-
er beeame comparatively wealthy. The herd
received good farm care, no effort being
nade to produce the outstanding. Good bulls
were bought and a heavy western and local
trade followed.

D. L. Dawdy & Co., Atchison County.—A firm
consisting of D, L. Dawdy, J. W. Dawdy, and
Walter Lattimer, all of Abbingdon, Illinois,
bought the Shannon ill Farm and Shorthorns
of Governor Glick, November 1, 1891. D. L.
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Dawdy and Walter Lattimer came to Kansas
and took charge. There were about ninety head
of Bates cattle on the farm, headed by 53d Duke
of Airdrie, which were sold at public sale in
iXansas City the next spring at an average of
more than $200 with a top price of $800. They
bought and sold a number of herds, using the
Glek farm as a base for operations until 1901
when they removed to Arrington in Atchison
county. Walter Lattimer died in 1902 and after
his death D. L. Dawdy handled the business
individually.

H. M. Hill, Montgomery County.—It was not
intended by May. Hill’s parents that he should
develop into a Shorthorn breeder. Some of his
boyhood friends have told me of lis early edu-
cation and traiming for the legal profession and
that the influence of an old Frenchman who kept
some good grade Shorthorns weighed more heav-
ily than did the ambitions of fond parents. How-
ever that may be, the young man, after having
been a short time in charge of the family bank-
ing interests at Lafontaine, transferred his scene
of action to a big tract of land, now known as
Sycamore Springs Stock Farm, and in 1893 he
bought a lot of Shorthorns from T. O. Ford of
Liberty. In the same year he bought eight heif-
ers of Senator Benedict. They were by the Wil-
lias Bros.’ show bull, Dr. Primrose and by
Banker 4th, Mr. Benedict’s well known sire.
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Scottish Emperor, a splendid Cruickshank
bull, was the sire in use. In 1900 My. Hill joined
with C. E. Wolf & Son, B. W. Gowdy, and J. F.
Stodder in a publie sale at Kansas City. Just

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MR. AND MRs8, H. M. HILL

prior to this time he had purchased from Hanna
& Co. a few females, some of which were bred to
np. Mariner. Later he purchased imp. Mariner
as well as Kinnellar, a son of imp. Dalmena Mina
5th. During a period of about ten years he used
Mr. Hanna’s importation more largely than did
anyone else, breeding cows annually to imp.

‘ollynie and making numerous purchases of
Collynie cows. Some of the best Shorthorns in
Kansas found their way into Mr. Hill’s pasture.
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Among them were Syringia by Royal Knight and
her great son, Prince of Collynie; Inglemaid by
imp. Inglewood the dam of Ingle Lad; Sweet
Mistletoe and Sycamore Secret by Collynie.
Sweet Mistletoe was later sold to Lespedeza
where she gave birth to Inperial Mistletoe and
Lespedeza Collynie. Imperial Mistletoe was a
leading show bull at two years old and sold for
$4100 and Lespedeza Collynie was grand cham-
pion at the International in 1919. I saw Syca-
more Secret as a three-year-old heifer suckling a
600 pound calf and weighing 1700 pounds on
grass alone, in August.

Two pastures full of such cows with Prince of
Collynie in one and Ingle Lad in the other, wad-
ing in hmestone blue stem nearly knee-deep—this
is What I saw on my first visit to Mr. Hill’s and I
wondered how. many western breeders could dup-
hieate such a scene. It was on the saine occasion
some twelve years ago that for two days I was
the guest of Mir. and Mis. Hill. I want to add
iny testimony to that of the hundreds of visitors
who have enjoyed Mas. Hill’s charming hospital-
ityv—venerally credited with having been a great.
factor in the suceess of the business.

Both Prince of Collyme and Ingle Lad were
freely used for a number of vears and sived a lot
of calves. Like other breeders, Ma. Hill failed to
realize in advanee the veal value of the heifers.
The few Ingle Lad cows now on the farm are
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great breeders and heavy milkers, while the only
Prince of Collynie cow on the place is a veritable
gold mine, figuratively speaking. Had Mr. Hill
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the Prince of Collynie heifers rather than to
send the bull to market while still useful, he could
have scored one of the greatest hits in Shorthorn
history. About five years ago Mr. Hill bought
of Forbes & Son, Master of the Dales by Avon-
dale and the work of breeding Shorthorns has
gone steadily forward, a faet which will be ap-
parent to the reader of Part LI of this book.

J. F. Stodder, Cowley County.—Mr. Stodder
was one of the prominent breeders of southeast-
ern Kansas. He was a good business man and it
seemed every investment he made vielded a
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profit. He began his work by buying well bred
stock from good herds but he was not a buyer of
high priced females. Many of his cattle were pur-
chased at a level of values that today would
seem Impossible. His first bull, Aylesbury Duke,
was widely advertised. It was in the purchase
of Captain Archer, however, that he made the
it so much desired by breeders.

This red dehorned son of imp. Collynie and
imp. Mistletoe 15th, sired from the Scotch
crossed Bates cows a class of stock that, as a
whole, discounted the produce from the Scotch
cows in the herd. The Stodder bred cattle were
soon on the big show circuits winning more than
their share of the honors. The cows that raised
the show stock from the service of Captain Arch-
er came largely from Fred Cowley’s herd and
were by Secret Archer, also a son of imp. Col-
Ivnie and out of a daughter of Royal Knight,
a son of imp. Princess Alice. It is not surprising
that this mingling of good blood, practically un-
related to begin with, should produce unusual re-
sults.

After a few seasons use of Captain Archer.
he was found dead in the pasture and the white
bull Silvermine was bought and used in the herd,
Silvermine sired an exceptionally attractive lot
of roan heifers. Mr. Stodder’s health failed in
1912 and he sold the herd at publie nuction in the
fair grounds at Burden at an average ot about
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*160. Silvermine went to Marshall Bros. and
for a number of years was one of the good sires
in their large herd.

Thomas, Jameison & Mitchell, Wabaunsee
County.—E. K. Thomas, one of Ikentucky’s
prominent breeders, Mr. Jameison, also of that
state and their nephew, 8. D. Mitchell, shipped
200 good Shorthorns from Paris, IKken-
tucky to a large ranch near Allen, twenty-five
miles north of Emporia. Mr. Thomas had been
particularly suceessful with a family that came
to be known as the Thomas Young Marys.

Under Mr. Mitehell’s efficient management
the herd rapidly took rank with the best in the
state. The noted bull Barrister, winner of 247
first prizes, was chief herd bull. In addition to
these Young Marys, Mr. Mitchell bought Scotch
cows, one of the most notable purchases being
the white cow, imp. Bessie dist. This cow was
in calf to the champion, Choice Goods, then at the
height of his popularity. She produced a white
bull, later well known as White Goods. It is
speaking conservatively to say that White Goods
was one of the very best of the champion’s get.
Mr. Mitchell used this bull without hesitancy and
also showed him suecessfully. He proved a
breeder of wonderful merit. Another bull used
was Orange Viscount.

Mr. Mitchell began showing west of the Miss-
issippi in 1905 and the herd won its full share
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of prizes. Mia. Jameison died in 1908 and the
herd was dispersed at publie sale in Kansas City,
the high average being nearly $300, White Goods,
the main attraction of the sale, went to Idaho
at $1150 and became the leading show bull of the
Pacifie coast. Imported Bessie 51st went into
Brown county and beeame the dam of several
good bulls. Harriman Bros. bought 46th Duech-
ess of Gloster with her bull calf. The calf was
sold as a vearling to C. S. Nevius where, under
the name of Searchlight, he did his share toward
building up Shorthorn interests in Kansas and
Oklahoma. Mr. Mitchell had a herd of his own
when the partnership herd was dispersed and
he continued to breed successfully on a smaller
seale. An account of his work will be given later.

E. H. Rutledge, Rice County.—In about 1905
Mr. Rutledge established a herd of wonderful
promise. The cows had been carefully selected
and the outstanding bull, Double Champion, was
bought from Tebo Lawn. This bull was by Choice
Goods and out of Russella, the dam of the unde-
feated heifer and cow, Ruberta. Not long after
the purchase of Double Champion Mr. Rutledge
bought Liberty Boy, a splendid son of the grand
champion, Viscount of Anoka. Both of these bulls
proved excellent breeders and the herd bade fair
to become of state-wide importance. Unfortun-
ately for Shorthorn interests in central Kansas,
Mr. Rutledge died suddenly and the entire herd
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was cdlispersed. Most of the cattle sold locally at
a low price to people who did not realize their
value. Several good herds in central Kansas,
however, descend from the Rutledge herd.

Herds of Minor Importance.—During the
vears covered by the preceding sketches many
herds were founded over the state that were of
considerable importance locally. Only a few
of these herds left any impress on the cattle of
this time yet they are well worthy of mention. It
has been possible to obtain data on many of these
breeding establishments while probably many
others equally worthy of recognition are omitted.
These herds are grouped largely by counties and
loealities rather than according to the period of
time in which they existed.

J. Clarenee Norton of Alen county was one
of the earlier breeders. Mr. Norton was a bril-
liant man who was very much given to accepting
statements as positive facts and coming to con-
clusions without thorough investigation. One of
his hobbies to which he gave much publicity
was that cattle would thrive as well or better
without salt as with it. He was a frequent
contributor to the farm press and a very willing
speaker at farmers’ institutes. His Shorthorn
herd, which was maintained for a good many
years, was of medium quality and of local im-
portance only.

Of somewhat more recent origin than the
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Norton herd was that of R. O. Furneaux near
Moran. Irom a modest beginning with medinm
cattle his herd developed into one of the good
herds of the county.

Another Allen county herd was that of Jewell
Bros., which for a number of years was prob-
ably the best in the county. Both the proprietors
are still engaged in the business owning individ-
ual herds.

B. W. Gowdy of Anderson county bred quite
a number of Shorthorns but was better known as
a dealer than as a breeder. He was prominent
in the trade from 1897 to 1905. His commercial
instincts were highly developed, too highly, per-
haps, for best results as a breeder.

Walter Lattimer, son of the well known IIl-
inois family of breeders, who was associated with
D. L. Dawdy in the ownership and management
of the Glick herd also maintained a herd near
Garnett. The cattle were largely of the Glick
stock and the earlier bulls in service were of
Bates extraction. Later Mr. Lattimer changed
his course by buying the great Bellows bull,
Valley Champion. J. B. Fergus, a well known
resident of Allen county, was herdsman for Mr.
Lattimer during the time he operated near
Garnett.

A.M. Ashevatlt of Atchison county was in busi-
ness from 1894 to 1904. He bought a few females
and built up quite a large herd. He did not at
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first use bulls strong in Seoteh blood but later
he bought of T. P. Babst the excellent bull, Har-
mony’s Kuieht, and followed with Scottish Min-
strel secured from Thomas, Jameison & Mitchell.
Myr. Asheraft was a good advertiser and people
generally found out that he raised Shorthorn
cattle. Two of his sons, Asheraft Bros., sue-
ceeded to the business.

Another early Atchison county herd was that
of J. L. Miller of Arrington. Several of the
family are living in the neighborhood in which
this herd was kept and are breeding Shorthorns.
John @. A. Miller, living on the old home farm,
has quite a herd.

J. B. Stockstill of Barber county built up a
large herd from a small start made in the nine-
ties. The cattle produced were of good size and
of fairly good quality. Double Ury from Thos. H.
Mastin’s herd, Joe’s Lord by Lord Mayor and
Red Oak by imp. Collynie, all good bulls of ex-
cellent ancestry, did most of the service. This
herd was sold to J. E. Thompson of Fredonia
about 1910 and after breeding from them for a
few years Mr. Thompson dispersed them at
public sale.

Frank Rockefeller of Kiowa county, a hear
relative of the oil king, was something of a cattle
king in his community. His operations at one
time extended to several counties and he bred
Shorthorns quite extensively. While his cattle
116 A UISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

were kept in the way peculiar to the ranches of
the Southwest he sueceeded in producing some
quite creditable specimens of the breed. The
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Everett Hayes was one of the well known
breeders of Brown county. He owned some good
cows of very popular breeding and he bought at
one of the Chicago sales the white bull, Snow-
flake, later destined to fame as the sive of Ring-
master, the only bull that has ever been three
times International grand champion. The best
of the Snowflake calves were in demand to go
into good herds and had Mr. Hayes continued
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his operations for a longer time he would doubt-
less have been classed as a very successful Short-
horn breeder. The herd was dispersed at public
sale in 1911.

Another Brown county herd was that of D. E.
Reber. Mr. Reber began buying a few Short-
horns soon after 1900 some of which were se-
cured locally but he also patronized the herds of
F. O. Lowden and M. E. Jones of Dlinois, the
Tebo Lawn herd and that of Bellows Bros.
From the latter he secured Diamond Emblem,
the highest priced bull of his year in the Bellows
Bros. sale and a son of the noted cow, Emily by
Collynie. The herd was dispersed about 1915,
Diamond Emblem going to T. J. Dawe & Son
of Doniphan county who exhibited him at lead-
ing western state fairs winning numerous first
prizes and championships.

E. D. Ludwig of Sabetha, either accidently or
from previous knowledge, purchased a bull that
later became nationally famous as the sire of
numerous state fair, American Royal and Inter-
national champions. Barmpton Knight, one of
the great bulls cf the breed, sired a lot of calves
in Mr. Ludwig’s herd that made such a favorable
impression on Tomson Bros. that they decided to
buy and did buy the old bull at the Ludwig dis-
persion. There is little else to say about this herd
for Barmpton Knight was virtually the whole
herd, as a bull of his quality always is, and Mr.
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Ludwig’s fame as a breeder rests wholly upon the
achievement of this great bull.

T. J. Dawe began breeding Shorthorns in Don-
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local breeders and he has been in the work con-
tinuously since that time. In 1910 associated
with lis son ‘‘Jim’’ under the firm name of T. J.
Dawe & Son, the firm changed its methods of
operation by making purchases of choice cattle
from the leading herds of America. In 1911
they began showing at the St. Joseph fair and
at Topeka and Hutchinson winning their share
of the ribbons. They owned and exhibited Dia-
mond Hmblem, one of the best known show and
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breeding bulls in the state, until his death from
forage poisoning in 1919. Mrs. E. A. Myer, a
daughter of T. J. Dawe, is living on the old farm
near Troy and with her husband is engaged in
breeding Shorthorus.

W.J. Snodgrass was an old time Butler county
breeder of fairly good cattle who happened to
buy a bull that made his reputation in south
central Kansas. This bull was Scott Jr. by imp.
Scottish Emperor. He was bred by H. M. Hill
and shown at the Wichita fair where, after hav-
ing won first prize, he was sold to Mr. Snodgrass.
He was liberally used in the Snodgrass herd
where he sired an exceptionally good class of
calves. In the show ring he seldom, is ever, met
defeat and he was exhibited against the entries of
such showmen as J. F. Stodder. Several of Mr.
Snodgrass’ sous took up Shorthorn breeding but
they are now all out of the business. Well ad-
vaneed in years and looking back on an unusually
active life, Mi. Snodgrass is living quietly in
Wichita.

L. B. Hull is another Butler county breeder
who for ten years was well known in local Short-
horn circles. He made no effort to produce any-
thing better than a medium class of cattle.

H. GC. Stephenson of Chase county bred Short-
horns for fifteen years, producing a nice,
smooth, attractive lot of cattle of excellent feed-
evs’ type which furnished the foundation for
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numerous pure bred herds. On account of Mr.
Stephenson’s poor health the herd was dispersed
privately early in 1919. As will be seen in Part
Il of this book the Stephenson cattle became a
prune factor in building up several herds in the
eastern half of the state. Among those who took
advantage of this dispersion were W. J. Sayre,
H. M. Schoepflin, C. E. MeFerrin, F. N. Funk
and others.

Master of the Grove, American Royal and
International grand champion bull, was devel-
oped by J. W. Baker of Chase county and sold
by him to Bellows Bros. who exhibited him. It
is said that Mr. Baker gave this bull more than
usual care which, 1n view of the fact that he had
no fanuly upon which to lavish his affections, is
not surprising. Mr. Baker’s herd was small
and aside from his connection with Master of the
Grove he was known only locally.

In founding his herd Fred Cowley of Cherokee
county made judicious selections, principally of
Seotch crossed Bates cattle. In buying these
cattle he had the assistance of that excellent
judge of Shorthorns, John MeDermaid. He
used the Harris bred bull, Rodney by imp. Pirate
and the Bellows bred Albion by Valley Cham-
pion. Ilis greatest breeding bull was doubtless
Seeret Archer by imp. Collynie. Seeret Archer
was the sire of numerous cows sold to Fred
Stodder that bred to Captain Archer produced
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a large number of the Stodder show eattle. Mr.
Cowley was associated with S. C. Hanna and H.
M. Hill in promoting the Fredonia sales held
annually trom 1906 to 1914.

Another Cherokee county breeder was 8. L.
Cheney who owned quite a large herd in the
eighties and nineties. The first good bull bought
by Mr. Cheney was the well known Goldendrop
of Hillhurst, by the way, the first good bull
owned by Col. W. A. Harris and recognized as
the predecessor of dnp. Baron Victor. He was
followed by the Potts bred Orange Blossom of
Oakland, a son of imp. Antiquary. Later My.
Cheney bought what became his best known bull,
the Davidson bred Orange Blossom Perfection.
While most of the cows were of the commoner
kind he owned some good ones and the descend-
ants of these, nearly all of the Cruickshank
Orange Blossom family, figured in the pedigrees
of several good herds.

One of the greatest show bulls ever seen in
America was for one season owned and exhibited
by a resident of Cherokee county. M. A. House-
holder of Columbus, associated for a time with
Williams Bros. under the name of Williams &
Householder, is credited as having been the ex-
hibitor of imp. Cupbearer. Mr. Houscholder
bred a few Shorthorns but httle stock is recorded
as bred by him.

Beginning in 1898 Adam Andrew of Craw-
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ford county gradually built up his herd to about
fifty females. Local trade took the surplus and
in 1914 Mr. Andrew held a public sale disposing
of all but a few of the best females and the herd
bull, Orange Major. He has continued his breed-
ing operations and his herd which is better than
ever is dealt with in Part IT.

From about 1900 to 1917 Marshall Bros. of
Cowley county bred Shorthorns, supplying the
local and western trade, and producing a desir-
able class of cattle with plenty of size. The
herd grew to be one of the large ones of the
state. Among the best known sires in use was
Scottish Prince, a Hanna bred son of imp. Lord
Cowslip. At the Stodder dispersion sale Marshall
Bros. bought the senior herd bull, the white,
Silvermine, the sire of the attractive lot of
roan heifers sold by Mr. Stodder. The herd en-
joyed an unusually good patronage from Okla-
homa breeders until its dispersion in 1917. Lee
Marshall who was the active manager of the
establishment is now living in Wichita and has
transferred his activities from Shorthorns to
the manufacture of paint.

Clay Harrington and H. M. Harrington es-
tablished herds in Sedgwick county near Clear-
water in about 1900. Although these herds did
not become pronnnent yet they were numbered
among the large ones of the state. The surplus
was sold principally in Oklahoma.
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David Ballantyne, a shrewd Scotchman, who
came to Dickinson county forty-five years ago,
was connected with the Shorthorn industry until
the business was turned over to his son, T. A.
Ballantyne, in about 1917. The herd frequently
niumbered as many as 100 head and My.
Ballantyne, who had the regulation Scotch idea
of selecting stock with only merit and adapt-
ability in view, refused to be sidetracked by fads.
There were few more practically useful herds in
the state than this one. Among the best bulls
were Marshall Abbotsburn 3d, bred in Can-
ada; Collynie’s Pride by imp. Collynie and
Wooddale Chieftain by The Choice of All. Mr.
and Mrs. Ballantyne have made frequent trips to
Scotland within the past forty-five years and
every member of the Ballantyne family has
accompanied them on one or more of these trips.
Since 1917 My. and Mrs. Ballantyne are living in
Herington.

H. R. Little of Dickinson county had a large
herd from which numerous small herds in the
state were founded. His activities began in
about 1895 and continued for about ten years.
My. Little was inclined to favor bulls with only a
light infusion of Scotch blood and for this reason
he did not secure best results. In some cases,
however, the cows from his herd have produced
wonderful calves when crossed with good Scoteh
bulls.
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Geo. Channon was another of the early breed-
ers in Dickinson county who raised the founda-
tion stock for a number of smaller herds in cen-
tral Kansas. His cattle were not given as good
development as they should have received but
they did well for their purchasers.

C. M. Garver was for a number of years rated
one of the best breeders in Dickinson county.
He owned the show bull, Royal Gloster by imp.
Daydream’s Pride. Mr. Garver closed out his
herd in 1908 selling Royal Gloster to O. L. This-
ler also of Dickinson county.

Myr. Thisler began breeding in 1890 and was
quite well known over the state. It was in 1910
that he decided to change his line of business
and engage in the production of Percherons.
With this object in view he sold his Shorthorns,
about fifty head, including the bull, Royal Glos-
ter to John W. Tredway, receiving in exchange
a lot of Percheron mares. Mr. Tredway sold
these cattle in the fall sale held by the Woodson
Jounty Breeders Association at Yates Center in
1910 and several of the best cows were bought by
Lauber Bros. of Yates Center. Royal Gloster
was sold to E. 8S. Myers of Chanute.

J... Taylor & Sons of Chapinan began breed-
ing during the eighties and one of their first bulls
was the famous old sire, Golden Isnight, pur-
chased from the Kansas State Agricultural Col-
lege at the time the college herd was dispersed
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as a result of the political fight which involved
the Board of Regents. The Taylors have been in
the breeding business ever since and will prob-
ably continue indefinitely, at least as long as
the boys of the present family live.

Bill & Burnham of Manhattan began business
by buying some of the choicest cattle at Durham
Park in 1878 and for the next few years they
added to their herd by purchase. They owned
the bull Viseount, by the Crane bull Kanght of
the Purple and out of a daughter of imp. Dor-
othy. They also bought of Col. Harris the im-
ported Cruickshank bull, Double Gloster. From
the Dryden bred Cruickshank cow, Golden Queen
by Royal Barmpton, they raised a bull by
imp. Earl of Aberdeen that was named 2d Earl
of Aberdeen and used freely in the herd. Bill
& Burnham continued breeding until near the
close of the eighties.

B. F. Lorimer of Great Bend was an active
breeder in the nineties and members of the Lori-
mer family have been producing Shorthorns in
Barton county until recently.

Ewing Bros. and others of the Ewing family
bred Shorthorns in Barton county and adjacent
territory for a number of years, producing
a good class of cattle which have found their
way into other herds.

Geo. B. Ross of Sterling at one time owned a
large herd in Rice county and, while it was never
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an important factor in Shorthorn trade, it fur-
nished the foundation for a good many herds in
central Kansas and a few in Oklahoma. Occa-
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cattle are descended from Ross stock. Mr. Ross
is best known the state over as a leading Dem-
ocratie politician. He is a man of great ability
and it is probable that had he devoted his entire
time to the production of Shorthorns instead of
dividing his interests between Shorthorns, Per-
eherons, Poland China hogs and politics he
would have produced a herd that would grade
with the best in Kansas. As it was he produeed
some really good stock. The period of his active
operations extended from 1897 to 1907.
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Dr. R. A. Stewart of Hutchinson is remem-
bered as having owned one of the leading herds
in central Kansas. Under his own name as well
as under the name of Stewart & Downs he ex-
hibited at leading shows and for several years
eattle of his breeding won many prizes. The best
known sire in use was Victor Areher, a Tomson
bred son of Archer out of a Gallant Knight dain.
This bull later did good service in several other
herds and left many worthy descendants in cen-
tral and south central Kansas. To use on the
Victor Archer heifers Forest Knight by Gallant
Knight out of a B. O. Cowan bred dam by Nor-
folk was purchased of Tomson Bros. The herd
was dispersed by private sale about 1914.

J.C. Hyde bred Shorthorns for many years in
Harvey county and his name appears frequently
in the pedigrees from other herds. His work was
of local and western interest and extended until
about 1902. One of his sons, J. W. Hyde, is the
oldest established breeder in Wilson county and
another son, Fred, is also breeding in that county.
Several grandsons of J. C. Hyde are engaged in
breeding Shorthorns.

J. F. True was one of the best known breeders
of Jefferson county during the eighties and
nineties. Volume 29 of the American Herd
Book contains the pedigrees of five cows and
heifers bred by Mr. True and cattle of his breed-
ing are recorded in nearly every volume up to
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60, also in 64, 65, 70, and 71. He believed in
advertising and made liberal use of the press in
keeping his herd before the public. The cattle
were sold about 1900 or shortly thereafter when
Mr. True moved to Topeka. It was he who was
given the work of collecting funds in Kansas
for the erection of a monument to Col. W. A.
Harris on the grounds of the Kansas State Ag-
ricultural College.

V. R. Ellis of Franklin county established a
herd in about 1884 which furnished the basis
for suecess in numerous other herds. The big
beefy bull Godwin, son of imp. Spartan Hero
and imp. Golden Thistle, two of the best animals
of their day, was used and proved a sire of val-
uable breeding cows. Sir Charming 4th, a Nor-
ton bred bull of his Sweet Charity line was also
used. This herd was not appreciated at its full
worth until after its sale to T. K. Tomson & Sons
when the Godwin cows added prestige to the
Tomson herd in producing show stock.

Records do not show that J. C. Stone, Jr. of
Leavenworth county bred any considerable num-
ber of Shorthorns. He did, however, do a big
business in bringing the so-ealled Bates bulls
and some females from Kentucky during the
late seventies and early eightics. Te continued
handling Shorthorns and breeding a few until
1898 when the last, or one of the last, of his breed-
ing was recorded. M1. Stone is known in Short-
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horn history as the man who brought Golden
Drop of Hillhurst to Kansas and sold him to
Col. Harris.

H. EH. Hayes of Johnson county for a number
of years kept a choice collection of the breed
which was dispersed at publie sale in 1908, Lord
Banff 2d, a son of imp. Lord Banff, was in ser-
vice practically all the time the herd was main-
tained and uear the close of its existence Baron
Marr, an execllent son of Cumberland’s Last out
of imp. Lady Marr, was purchased. The calves of
this bull were of outstanding quality. The best
of the females went into good herds and Baron
Marr went to the Deming Ranch at Oswego
where, after a year’s use, he was killed by light-
ning. The cow sold in the State Association
sale, June 1920, at Manhattan for $3900 was out
of a daughter of Baron Mary purchased in dam
by Prof. R. J. Kinzer while head of the Depart-
ment of Animal Husbandry of Kansas State
Agricultural College.

O. E. Morse & Sons were among the early
breeders in Linn county and both the sons, T. W.
Morse and 8. T. Morse, still sometimes talk like
Shorthorns breeders. Their herd, though never
large, was a eredit to the breed and was dis-
persed because the junior inembers of the firm
decided not to follow farming. It was a real
factor for good while in existence and was closed
out at public sale about 1910, local breeders
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taking most of the cattle. The herd bull went to
A. M. Markley & Son where he continued the
good work for which he had been noted in the
Morse herd.

The work of W. B. & M. Hawk of Marshall
county covered a period of ten years from 1887
to 1897. They used first-class bulls, two of which
were Sandoval and the well known Galahad,
both of Col. Harris’ breeding. Galahad was
later bought back by Col. Harris and used at
Linwood where he sired much good stock includ-
ing the noted show and breeding bull, Gallant
Knight. Cattle descended from the Hawk herd
are frequently found.

D. Tennyson also of Marshall county had a
herd of more than ordinary merit. Tle owned
at different times execllent bulls, one having
been the imported Criuiekshank bull, Prime Min-
ister. Cattle of Mr. Tennyson’s breeding were
widely distributed and were generally of high
quality. One of his sons, A. A. Tennyson of
Lamar, is the owner of a splendid herd, a large
proportion of which is descended from cattle
bred on his father’s farm.

Though little known away from home, the
name of James Greve of Seneca earries mueh
prestige in Nemaha county. For a number of
years Mr. Grege owned one of the large herds
of the state, recording as high as sixty head in
a single volume of the herd hook. This operations
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extended from 1895 to 1905. Like many others
who have established large Shorthorn herds Mr.
Grege did not fully appreciate the great value of
an extraordinary bull and for that reason, more
than for any other, his herd did not assume state-
wide importance. Probably the best bull he
used was the Harris bred Rodney, a Scotch
crossed bull by imp. Royal Pirate. The use of
this bull was attended with considerable success.

C. W. Merriam of Topeka owned and exten-
sively advertised Aylesdale Farm. Mr. Merriam,
who was a land loan and mortgage broker, han-
dled the farm as a side issue and operated it
by proxy. He owned at one time a lot of
cows bred by T. P. Babst among which the
daughters of Lord Mayor were especially attract-
ive. Although he produced some good cattle
he did not attain the success that would have been
possible had he been a professional cattle man
and in a position to give his herd his entire per-
sonal attention. Good breeders who knew the
establishment well have stated that Mr. Mer-
riam failed to use a bull of sufficient merit to
produce best results from such high-class cows
ashe owned. The herd was dispersed a few years
ago at private sale and the farm was sold to
H. H. Holmes then of Great Bend and is now
one of the well known Shorthorn establishments
of the state.

M. A. Lowe of Topeka who began breeding in
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the latter nineties owned a class of cattle that
were well appreciated and many of them found
their way into good herds. Golden Lad bred by
C. B. Dustin and sired by the show bull, Golden
Rule out of the noted cow imp. Germanica 2d,
was doubtless Mr. Lowe’s best, bull. A number
of the cows from a pert and the bull, Golden
Lad, were sold to W. C. Bdwards of Wichita for
his Pawnee county ee This bull
was used with much success by Mr. Edwards.
Another Shawnee county herd that won con-
siderable fame during the early part of this
century was that of D. C. VanNice of Richland.
This herd of Polled Shorthorns was exhibited
successfully at some of the large fairs and his
big red bull Belvedere was for several years the
best known Polled Shorthorn bull in the state.
At the 1910 Topeka state fair Mr. VanNice
showed a roan cow that, Judged for the produc-
ion of both beef and milk, had few equals any-
where. The herd was closed out a few years ago.
Hoadley & Sigmund and George H. Hoadley
& Son established a herd in Sheridan county
shortly after 1900. From the beginning they
used bulls of better ancestry than were found in
most herds, one of the first having been Baronet
of Maine Valley, bred by Chandler Jordan. Some
of their cows were bred along prevailing fashion-
able Lines. This was one of the herds earhest
established in the northwest section of Kansas.
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S. 8. Benedict of Wilson county, extensive
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cesstul Shorthorn breeder. The herd was best
known in southeast Kansas. He used a sue-
cession of desivable bulls among whieh were
20th Earl of Valley Grove by Lord Mayor;
Banker 4th, bred by Powell Bros. of Missouri
and Williains Bros.’ noted show bull, Dr. Prim-
rose. 20th Earl of Vailey Grove had been used
by F. C. Kingsley of Shawnee county where he
proved a great sire of good breeding cows and in
Senator Benedict’s herd lie fully sustained the
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reputation he had established. Many of the
cattle used by UL. M. Hill in his carly operations
were of Senator Benedict’s breeding.

C. H. Clark and Clark Bros. came from Lowa
to IXansas in about May 1895. They had been
extensive breeders in that state and brought with
them large herds one of which was located in
Wilson county and the other near Colony in An-
derson county. The Clarks made the common
mistake of using herd bulls of only medium qual-
ity and for this reason they produced little high-
class stock. Cows and heifers from their herds
have been seattered widely over southeast.
JKansas and, though not of the highest quality,
have generally proved good breeders and when
crossed with high-class Scotch bulls they have
given satisfactory results.

C. H. Kimble was one of the old breeders of
Wilson county. He did not at any time conform
to fashion in pedigrees but he produced good
cattle. One of the best heifers sold by IL. M.
Hall in a notable offerime at the Fredonia sale
was bred from Kimble stock and traced te the
so-called American woods.

J. U. Bayer of Woodson county bought a cow
in 1883 for $100. Tle sold all the bull calves Crom
this cow and he saved the heifers. In 1897 he
bought four heifers at $25 to $40 cach and by
1905 he had sold many Shorthornus at a big profit.
Mr. Bayer’s experience shows that frequently
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from a small outlay can be established a herd
that even in a few years will make a man com-
paratively wealthy. li 1905 he closed out his
farm business after starting both his sous and
a son-in-law with Shorthorns from his herd.
A grandson, Henry B. Bayer, a graduate of the
iXansas State Agricultural College, living three
miles southwest of Manhattan, is a promising
young breeder and several other grandsons are
now students at the college.

H. G. Slavens, also of Woodson county, pro-
duced Shorthorus from 1895 to 1912 when he
was forced to discontinue because of failing
health. Dr. Slavens was fortunate in the selec-
tion of his foundation stock having bought from
a good Lowa herd at a time when fifty dollars
would buy a very choice cow. He also made a hit
in the purchase of the bull Red Gauntlet by
Godoy. Dr. Slavens was a Shorthorn enthus-
jast, a good feeder, and a close student and had
he retained his health he would have made a great.
success of the breeding business. The herd was
dispersed in 1912, five excellent heifers going
to Hall Bros. of Allen county.

F. H. Conger of Yates Center was another
Woodson county man who developed a large
herd. His foundation stock was bred by H. J.
Masters of Nebraska aud the cows purchased
were sired by St. Valentine 12th, an excellent
son of St. Valentine. Ma. Conger made a
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Fortunate purchase of Lavender’s Best from D.
Kk. Kellerman & Son and a very unfortunate in-
vestmient in the purchase of a successor to Laven-
der’s Best at a low price. The Lavender’s Best
cows were an unusually good lot. Nine of them
were at one time owned by J. T. Bayer and were
the admiration of loeal breeders. Mr. Conger
closed out the herd in 1907, havine been in the
business for ten years.

Another Woodson county owner of a large
Shorthorn establishment which he operated dur-
ing the same period in whieh J. H. Bayer, Dr.
Slavens and EF. H. Conger were actively cngaged
in breeding, was John A. Seaton. Mr. Seaton
and several sons came from Lowa im 1900 bring-
ing with them cattle purchased from several of
the well known herds in the viemity of Newton.
They owned 1000 acres of land near Vernon
and the eattle had not only plenty of good
teed and good eare but the herd had the use of a
strictly high-class bull in’ Prince Tmperial 2d,
an Albert Harrah bred son of Canute. My.
Seaton died in 1906 and the herd was dispersed
by publie sale. Prince Imperial 2d that had de-
veloped into a first-class show bull and an out-
standing sive, only six years old when sold, was
allowed by the breeders present to be purchased
by a shipper for $85 with + per cent off for eash
to be sent to Kansas City two days later where he
brought #125 tor beef.
THH FINAL TEST

It has always been claimed by Shorthorn sup-
porters that this breed alone, among all in-
proved breeds, (aviishes the kind of cows needed
on the sinall farms where the production of cattle
for the beef market must necessarily be from
cows that also furnish a reasonable amount of
bulk. The contention is that the Shorthorn cow
will produce as good a beef anual as any cow of
any other breed and at the same time will give
milk enough to properly raise her calf as well as
to furnish daivy products for the family and for
market. It is poimted out that no cow of any
other breed will do this or that if any cow be
found among the other breeds with such an ae-
complshiment to her eredit she is a rare excep-
tion, Tn order that some definite figures might
be obtained which would show to just what extent
beefy Shorthorn cows that would produce good
heef calves would also produce dairy products mn
paying quantity, wa experiment was begun at the
Kansas Station in 1915.

The Department of Animal Husbandry of the
College, then in charge of W. A. Cochel, in ¢o-
operation with the Bureau of Animal Industry,
U. 8. Department of Agriculture, started a
breeding experiment that is developing, in fact
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it has already developed, into one of great tm-
portance to Shorthorn breeders and to the farm-
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horn cows of good breed type and every one at
least good as a beef aninal were chosen for the
experiment which is to last twenty years. The
chief object of this experiment as stated in the
plan origially adopted was:

1.) To what extent does the milk-giving fune-
tion of the dam influence the beef character of
progeny ?
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2. By mating thickly-fleshed beef bulis wiose
dams were heavy milkers and beef cows which
transmit beef character to then progeny 1s 10
possible to establish a heavy milking strain of
beet cattle within a breed, the female progeny of
which will be double purpose beef and milk ani-
mals and the males strictly of the beef type? In
other words, is it possible to retain the typical
beef form in the male animals and inerease the
milking tendency of the females ?

Dr. C. W. MeCampbell who was placed in
charge of the Department of Annnal Husbandry
July 1, 1920, did not feel that the object had been
well stated or that it was practical and changed
the plan to one of attempting to show that both
male and female can and should be of the same
type—broad, deep and thick and that such fe-
males can and should be able to produce strictly
beet type calves and 6,000 to 10,000 pounds of
milk annually. It is quite apparent that 1t will re-
quire several years to develop such a test yet re-
sults to date show that the new plan is both prac-
tical and feasible for practically all the cows now
in the test are the broad, deep, thick kind and
they are producing broad, deep, low-set, thick
calves and a heavy flow of milk. Only a few
need be mentioned.

1. College Eniuna 106095, a big, thick, smooth
Scotch ‘Butterfly’? is the dam of the first prize
junior yearling steer at the International Live

 
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Stock Show at Chicago. She has a milk record
of 7061.5 pounds of nilk ina year.

2. Gwendoline 79th 217427, an exceptionally
sweet, broad-backed, deep, thick, beautifully bred
Scoteh cow sired by Leader of Hashion; first dam
by a son of Whitehall Sultan, second dam by
Konght of the Thistle, third dam by Imp. Cup-
bearer is producing very sweet, compactly-made,
thick-fleshed calves of unusual merit. She also
nade the Shorthorn registvy of merit as a two-
year-old with a record of STIG. pounds of milk.

Bb. Pride’s Bessie 206445 is a splendidly bred
Marr ‘Bessie’ and a beautiful type of beef cow
with a milk record of 9210.5. Her calves since
conmng into the herd have all been bulls. They
ave very much in demand as herd headers for
good pure bred herds. Pride’s Bessie was the
first Scotch cow to be accepted im the advanced
mulk registry for Milking Shorthorns. Her
record 1s 9210.5 pounds of milk.

4+. Red Rose 190448 a Scotch ‘Queen of
Beauty’? is a broad, deep, square-cnded, thick-
Meshed cow that is producing splendid calves.
She has a milk record of 7027.1 pounds of milk.

). Lavender T 180790, a beautifully bred
Scotch ‘“Lavender’’, is a very broad, deep, low-
set cow that produces the same kind of calves.
She has a record of 7209.1 pounds of milk.

6. Cream Toast 87609 by Ingle Lad, a son of
finp. Collymie, dam by another sou of Collynie
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and second dam by Golden Lad, is producing ex-
ceptionally thick-fleshed, strictly beef type
ealves. She has the high record of 10203.2 pounds
of milk.

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Milk reeord 10,208.2 pounds. Owned by The Kansas
Agricultural College.

7. Matchless Quecn 180093 by Matchless Dale
ason of Avondale; dam by a son of Collynie, sec-
ond dam by Lord Thistle, third dam by Imp.
Bapton Arrow, is a cow of unusual width, depth
and compactness. With this she has a world of
quality and character. Her calves are of exactly
the same type. She isa full sister to the reserve
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champion steer at the International in 1916 and
has a record of 8733.1 pounds of milk.

8. Sultan’s Rose 489202 has developed into a
cow of outstanding beef type with a lot of char-
acter, quality and size. She is sired by a grand-
son of Whitehall Sultan; her dam by a son of
Wintehall Sultan and her second dam by the
Marr ‘‘Missie’’ bull imp. Golden Banner. Sul-
tan’s Rose made the registry of merit for milk
production with a record of 5639.8 pounds of
milk as a two-year-old.

An interesting feature relating to these milk
records is the fact that none of these cows except
Gwendoline 79th and Sultan’s Rose were milked
until they were mature cows, Cream Toast for
instance being seven years of age before entering
the experiment. Neither have these cows been
forced for milk production. They have been
maintained simply as beef rather than dairy
COWS.

All heifers will be developed and whenever a
heifer develops into a better beef type cow, pro-
duces a better beef type calf and at the same time
produces more milk than a cow in the experi-
ment then such heifers will be substituted for
the less desirable cows in the experiment.
TWO NOTABLE EVENTS

The largest importation of Shorthorn cattle
ever brought west of the Mississippi was made in
1920 by J. C. Robison of Towanda. For years
Mr. Robison had been breeding Percherons, first
with his father and later on his own account, and
as something of a side line had raised a good
many Shorthorns.

Mr. Robison left home July 18, 1919, landing
in Southhampton August 2. It had heen planned
to visit the herds of Great Britain in general but
on the day he landed he learned that foot and
mouth disease had broken out in England and
that trade in cattle would have to be limited to
the herds of Seotland. While spending almost
three months with Seotch breeders he secured
thirty-five females and ten bulls. After many
complications the cattle were shipped January
19, and after a very rough voyage of twenty-six
days, nearly twice the usual time required on the
trip, they landed at Baltimore with no loss ex-
cept that of two small calves. The cattle came
from Perthshire and Aberdeenshire and in-
cluded representatives from such noted herds
as that of Robert Bruce, James Rennie,
James Durne, Sylvester Campbell, Alex
Sutherland, and the most noted herd of
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all, William Duthie. Of this importation
Mr. Robison sold) twelve females and three
bulls in the Salter-Robison sale at Wiehita,
May 15, 1920 and one heifer on May 26 at, the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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State Association sale at Manhattan. In Sep-
tember 1920 he also sold several females to that
veteran breeder, J. W. Hyde, of Wilson county.
The rest of the females, whieh ineluded some of
the best ones, and two of the bulls were kept for
the foundation of a herd at Whitewater Stoek
Rarm four miles west of Towanda in Butler
county.

The Salter-Robison Sale.-—The Daily Drovers’
Telegram gives the following account of the sale
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held May 15, 1920, by Park E. Salter of Wichita
and J. C. Robison of Towanda. This sale was
held under unfavorable financial conditions but
the prices received proved conclusively that first-
class Shorthorns will sell for top prices under
almost any conditions. The account follows:

Park HE. Salter of Wichita and J. C. Robison of Towanda,
Kansas held a partnership sale of Shorthorns in the Forum
at Wichita Saturday, selling 48 cattle for $64,775 or an
average of $1,339.37. The Salter offering of 20 head
averaged $1,901 around, the Robison cattle sold for an av-
erage of $916 per head. In the eattle consigned by Park
E. Salter, there were a number of show animals, including
the grand champion, Lady Supreme, which sold to Frank
Seofield of Hillsboro, Texas for $4,800. Miss Snowbird
Sultan by Snowbird’s Sultan with a white heifer calf at
foot by Fair Acres Sultan Jr., sold to Carpenter & Ross of
Mansfield, Ohio, for $5,000, was the top of the females.
This is one of the highest, if not the highest price ever paid
for a female at auction in the state of Kansas. Pleasant
Gloster 2d, another member of Mr. Salter’s last year’s show
herd sold to H. C. Lookabaugh for $3,000. H. C. Teale
baugh also purchased Missie’s Last, at $6,100, which was
the top of the auction. Of the cattle consigned by J. C.
Robison, over half were imported and had been in the
country only a short time. They were not in the best of
condition, as they had been in transit for several months,
and Mr. Robison had not been able to get them in very
good shape. As it was, nine head sold for over $1,000 a
head. The top price paid for a Robison consignment was
$2,400, this amount being given by Albert Hultine of Saron-
ville, Nebraska, for imp. Sweet Fragrance bred by William
Duthie. The Shorthorn fraternity was well represented,
breeders being present from Nebraska, Iowa, Mississippi,
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Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. One of the most en-
couraging features of the entire sale was the fact that over
half the offering stayed in the Sunflower state, which is
pretty good evidence that they appreciate good cattle in
Kansas. <A detailed report follows:

Buuris.—Missie’s Last, September 1913, H. C. Looka-
baugh, Watonea, Okla., $6,100; Emblem Jr., December 10,
1918, E. S. Dale, Protection, Kans., $4,000; Imp. Roan
Marhall, March 9, 1919, Gulieck & Son, Ness City, Kans.,
$425; Imp. Kinochtry Ensien, June 25, 1919, Frank Kelly,
Gardner, Kans., $725; Imp. Prince Prudent, April 18, 1919,
F.S. Mirk, Wichita, Kansas, $475

Fema.es.—Rose Strathallan, June 10, 19138, H. L. Bur-
gess, Chelsea, Okla., $975; Narcissus Gem 4th, July 10,
1914, Kk. G. Gigstad, Lancaster, Kans., $1,850; Miss Snow-
bird Sultan and cow calf, October 20, 1916, Carpenter &
Ross, Mansfield, Ohio, $5,000; Lady Supreme, November 2
1917, Frank Scofield, Hillsboro, Tex., $4,800; Fair Acres
Blossom, March 6, 1918, E. J. Haury, Halstead, Kans., $1,-
800; Calla 4th and bull ealf, October 6, 1913, E. 8. Dale,
$1,000; Pleasant Gloster 2d, September 10, 1918, H. C.
Lookabaugh $3,000. Gwendoline 3d, July 15, 1915, Tom-
son Bros., Wakarusa, Kans., $1,000; Grandview Beauty
and bull calf, May 27, 1909, H. L. Burgess, $1,150; Syea-
more Emma 4th, October 26, 1911, H. L. Burgess, $1,150;
Golden Autumn and cow ealf, October 15, 1915, D. S.
Smithhisler, Enid, Okla., $750; Village Maid 2d, December
2, 1918, Frank Kelly, $525; Mayflower 11th, January 27,
1919, E. S. Dale, $1,150; Miss Butterfly 2d, November 26,
1918, E. S. Dale, $1,125; Emma Searchlight, July 7, 1919,
H. B. Gaeddert, Buhler, Kans.,$1,150; Bapton Emma, April
20, 1919, H. L. Burgess, $1,375 ; Narcissus Gem 5th, May 27
1919, KX. G. Gigstad, $700; Mysie Baron, July 3, 1919, Cal
Seott, Hydro, Okla., $650; Fragrant’s Last, Mareh 23,
1919, H. B. Gaeddert, $1,500; Imp. Villaee Diamond,
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December 5, 1910, H. T. Blake, Dunean, Okla., $825;
Imp. Sweet Fragrance, May 24, 1916, Albert Hultine, Sar-
onville, Neb., $2,400; Imp. Strathearn Rose and cow calf,
April 10, 1916, Henry Adams, Pond Creek, Okla., $1,200;
Gladiolus 7th, May 15, 1916, BE. S. Dale, $1,025; Imp. Snow-
drop, Mareh 2, 1917, Albert Hultine, $2,000; Imp. Snow-
flake and eow ealf, Mareh 15, 1917, Donald Gunn, Com-
anche, Okla., $1,400; Wilda Mysie, May 15, 1917, C. M.
Howard, Hammond, Kans., $775; Roan Alexandrina, Nov-
ember 7, 1917, E. J. Haury, $825; Imp. Strowan Countess,
Mareh 24, 1918, TT. T. Blake, $1,025; Clara 83d, Oetober 4,
1918, Heberline & Seofield, Ponea City, Okla., $900; Clara
85th, October 15, 1918, Carl Seott $1,025; Clara 8Ist, Aue-
ust 22, 1918, E. S. Dale, $1,025; Empress 2d, April 18,
1918, C. M. Howard, $600; Dottie Mysie, June 22, 1918, C.
M. Howard, $650; Imp. Juliet, September 12, 1918, D. B.
Thieman, Higginsville, Mo., $800; Quality Lady 2d, May
27, 1918, D. Wolfsehlegel, Harper, Kans., $600; Flossie 2d,
May 28, 1918, BE. 8. Dale, $525; Lovely Wane Duchess, July
20, 1918, D. Wolfsehlegel, $600; Imp. Vilette, January 10,
1919, D. Wolfschlegel, $775; Imp. Strowan Sunstar, Mareh
15, 1919, D. Wolfsehlegel, $775 ; Imp. Marjory 2d, January
18, 1919, D. Wolfsehlegel, $775; Clara 82d, September 12,
1918, D. Wolfsehlegel, $725; Imp. Snowdrift, February 6,
1919, Albert Hultine, $1,100; Imp. Strathearn Rose 3d,
May 21, 1919, D. Wolfschlegel, $775.
SHORTHORN PEDIGREES

There is no subject connected with Shorthorns
upon which ft have been asked so many questions,
as the one of pedigrees. In this chapter I shall
attempt to answer some of the questions asked
me from time to time and to convey an idea of
what a pedigree really is. Primarily a pedigree
is a list of names of the ancestors of an aninal.
This lst may be long or short. What we mean by
a Shorthorn pedigree is a docuunent giving such
information concerning an animal of the breed
as will cause its acceptance for record in the
American herd book. This is what vou obligate
yourself to furnish when vou sell a pure bred
Shorthorn and this is what you receive when you
buy one.

It is a matter of custom from which no devia-
tion should be tolerated, that the seller place on
record the pedigree of every Shorthorn he sells
except when he sells a cow with a calf at foot in
which case he is to furnish the purchaser an ap-
plication for the registry of the calf and a guar-
antee that such application will be recorded on
payment of the registration fee. He is further
obligated to make out and have recorded a cer-
tificate of transfer for any animal sold which
was on record prior to the time of sale.
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In case he sells a cow or heifer carrying a calf
at the time of sale he must, if he owned such fe-
male at the time she was bred, furnish the man
to whom he sells her, a registry appheation for
such calf after its birth. If he bought her after
she was bred, it is his duty to get such appheation
and furnish it to the man to whom he sold the cow
after she has a calf. This appleation must also
be signed by the person owning the cow at the
time the calf was born. It is then sent along with
the customary feo to the American Shorthorn
Breeders Association for record and in due time
the pedigree in regular Association form is sent
the owner of the calf.

Early Pedigrees.—Volume 1 of the American
herd book was published in 1846 and it records
the pedigrees of 190 bulls and 346 females. Un-
like the later volumes, these earlier volumes give
all the known crosses of bulls either under the
anunal’s name or by reference to some other
annnal recorded, usually in the same volume.
Some of the pedigrees are very short on an-
cestry., For instance Fanny, page 145 is given
as follows: ‘*Roan; bred in England by My.
Trim of Lancashive; mnported in 1904 and the
property of Dr. John A. Pool, Brunswick,
New Jersey; calved in October 1856; got by
Charley (1817) out of ————————__.”” This
is one of the briefer ones and was recorded on
a certificate furnished by J. C. Etches, a well
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known Knelish buyer, stating that she was pure
bred.

Going to vol. 8 published the same year Mr.
Tipton brought the first Shorthorn to Kansas,
(1857), we find the bull, York recorded as fol-
lows: ‘York 2396, bred in Rensselear Co., N. Y.;
got by Regent 899. Interbred from the Golden,
Cox and Bullock importations.’? The editor of
the herd book evidently had no positive infor-
mation beyond the locality of this bull’s birth and
the name of his sive and if may be well ques-
tioned whether the evidence was positive even as
to the sire.

This is one extreme. Here is another. In the
same volume is recorded the pedigree of Young
Belvedere 2409. His pedigree covers one-third
of a page and gives the ancestry in regulation
Shorthorn form for seventeen generations. A
few pedigrees were also recorded later that did
not trace to any cow imported from Great Brit-
ain. These were what we would now call grades
and Mr. Allen justified his course by stating that
evidence of their descent from: pure bred stock
had been furnished him. The recording of these
cattle raised such a storm of protest, however,
that this practice was not repeated and the des-
cendants of these cows so recorded were popular-
ly referred to as tracing to the ‘Ameriean
Woods.’”? For years, until 1907, ending with
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BROS.’ SALE FOR THREE YEARS. OWNED BY H. M, HILL
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after the ancestry in each pedigree and, as it was
impossible to so designate the pedigrees of these
so-called American Woods Shorthorns, the pedi-
gree, Immediately after the name of the last an-
cestor, ended in ‘‘ete.’? This designated that
they did not trace to an imported cow and they
were discruninated against until about 1890 and
long after all possible non-Shorthorn blood had
been bred out. The champions of these cattle
bred from a possible American grade foundation
eall attention to the fact that the Enelish herd
book placed on record animals with only five
recorded crosses to which the American purist
promptly responded that such Shorthorns, even
if bred in England, traced to the ‘*Hnglish
Woods.’? Thus it came about that im my vouth-
ful days we heard as much about English Woods
and American Woods as we do now about equally
foolish or more foolish, though modern diserim-
inations.

All Shorthorns originally came from the so-
called Shorthorn country in Eneland. From
this cradle of the breed they found their way to
America, most of them being imported between
1817 and 1850. They were also taken to Scotland
and to Lreland. All kinds and lengths of pedi-
erees went with them ranging from nothing to
some almost as lone as the moral law. The rank-
est kind of pedigree discrimination prevailed,
based on technicalities which would now seem
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ludicrous. Sane men lost their heads over the
possibility of a concealed cross of unfashionable
bloed. JT reeall the well known breeder Chas. E.

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afraid to buy any Shorthorns without first hav-
ing a man ke Col. Muu pass on the pedigrees.
Somewhere in my attic LT have a book entitled
“A Reeord of Untashionable Crosses in Short-
horn Pedigrees”? copies of which many leading
breeders used as a safeguard against the possible
co. taniunation of thei herds. This condition
obtained with more or less force, owing to loeal-
ity, until the time was ripe and the American
Shorthorn was regenerated by the then unfash-
ionable cattle from Scotland.
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It would be the height of folly to discriminate
at this time between the descendants of these
cattle of the seventies, but lest any man be
tempted to throw a stone at his neighbor Tmight
mention that some of the very best of My.
Cruickshank’s productions were closely de-
sccndced from unregistered cows without any
sign of a pedigree, long after the carly days of
the breed. The rise and the passing of the pedi-
eree Cascruminations proves conclusively that
real merit is the only safe and permanent foun-
dation upon which to build.

As stated before, the Enelish herd book re-
cords cattle as Shorthorns if they have five
crosses of recorded Shorthorn blood. As long as
we buy mnaported Shorthorns at big prices we ad-
mit that the breeders are at least the equals if
not the peers of those in America and that this
rule which has been in force since British breed-
evs began recording Shorthorns has done them
no harm. Tf we care to be consistent we can not
well stop to quibble about what went inte a pedi-
erce Jong years ago. Ht is not my intention to
say anything that might be construed as in favor
of any particular line of breeding or against it,
and if any one is melined to so construe what
I say I shall be sorry. My object is to furnish
information, leaving all to draw their own con-
chisions.

“Scotch’’.—While this is a word of only one
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syllable and six letters yet, in Shorthorn circles,
it is one of the most used and abused of words in
the English language. It is given the widest
possible meaning and at the same time restricted
to the narrowest construction of any word L have
ever heard used. It has become a synonym for
the type of cattle without regard to the pedigree
on the one hand and for a form of pedigree with-
out regard to type of cattle on the other hand.
It has been rolled out of the mouths of many asa
choice morsel when they knew little of its signifi-
eance. Like unto the famous ‘‘Bates’’ of the
seventies it has been used by speculators to un-
load unworthy specimens of a great breed of
cattle on dupes and the victims of its unworthy
use walk up and down the highways and byways
of the Shorthorn kingdom fondly hugging to
their bosoms the delusion that because of this
magie word their cattle must be good.

Origin of the Term.—When the rest of the
Shorthorn world had gone pedigree crazy, there-
by ruining their cattle, there were left a few
breeders in the bleak country around Aberdeen-
shire in Scotland that had bred cattle with only
one object in view, namely, practical utility.
These men had perhaps not associated quite so
closely with the outside world as had the leaders
of the trade in England and America and possi-
bly for that reason had not succumbed to pedi-
gree speculation in order to build up a high
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selling value on their product. Ht had doubtless
come to their ears that their cattle were ‘pla
bred’? and that it would be an outrage to eross
bulls from their herds with cows bred up by the
use of the unfashionably bred Bates bulls. Un-
dismayed by taunts and threats of failure, these
old) Seotehmen and their few disciples in
America pursued the even tenor of their ways.
At the critical time when the masses of the
fashionably bred Shorthorns Jacked everything
worth while except a pedigree of ancient but
fallen greatness and were in danger of being
cast aside by the Angus and Tlerefords as un-
worthy of being perpetuated, these plain bred
bulls from Seotland, thrown together imdiserim-
inately, according to the devotees of Fashion, and
coming from the edge of the jumping-off place
of the universe, appeared to reseue the breed.
Possessing every essential for the work except a
popular pedigree, they wrought a regeneration
in American and Enelish Shorthorns such as
had not been dreamed of before. Kirst under the
name of Cruickshank, the acknowledged leader
of the clan, and later as Scotch cows and Scotch
bulls they did the work so rapidly and effeetual-
Iv that within Tess than ten years they became
the aristocracy of the Shorthorn world. And so
the term ‘Scotch’? became one to conjure with,
for it represented a type of cattle superior to
anything yet seen. How the names of these old
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breeders thrill us now! Cruiekshank and Camp-
bell and Marr and Bruce in Scotland and David-
son and Potts and Pickrell and Kissinger in
America; and the more youthful members led

 

 

 

 

 

 

H. 0. PECK H. B. GAEDDERT
Wellington Buhler

by the nmmortal trio, Duthie in Scotland, Dean
Willis in England and W. A. Harris of Kansas
and the American nation. How we like to see
these hames in a pedigree, for we know that
it means real merit, not ancient ancestry and
paper glory. To these men of immortal renown
the world owes a debt of gratitude which it can
repay only by caring well for the heritage left by
them.

The fame of these cattle coming from Scotch
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breeders gradually extended to all the herds of
Scotland and later to those of entire Great Brit-
ain. ‘There are searecly any Shorthorns that
have not felt the benefits of this good blood and
by far the greater number of all Shorthorns are
in blood lines practically Seotch. Cattle coming
from Great Britain are being generally accepted
as Scotch and justly so. While the greater num-
ber of British Shorthorns do not descend in the
maternal line from cows bred in these Scotch
herds, yet it is a fact that in many cases both in
Europe and in America the Shorthorns produced
by crossing these good Scotch bulls on the Eneg-
lish and American cows have become so filled
with this Scotch blood that in essentials as well
as in non-essentials they are of one type, one fam-
ily and one breed with the cattle that crossed the
ocean since the early cighties.

Scotch Stands for a Type.—Assuming that
Seotch in Shorthorns stands for a type, and no
one even fairly familiar with the facts in the case
will attempt to deny this, it becomes immaterial
whether our Shorthorns that are being imported
come from England or Treland or Scotland. So
long as they are well loaded with the blood of the
cattle that saved the breed, and are good repre-
sentatives of their race we can accept them. Im-
porters and the buying public recognize the eor-
rectness of this principle and at present practie-
ally all imported animals are sold on their merits
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as individuals, there being little discrimination
on account of the point of origin.

A Contrast.—For years the two great political
parties of the United States made ugly faces at
each other over what was then known as ‘‘pro-
tection to American industry.’’ The substance
of this was that both parties wanted legal enact-
ments to give the American producer sufficient
advantage in trade over foreign producers to vir-
tually allow the American production suprem-
acy. The only question was how much and
for want of other ‘‘burning issues’’ the parties
divided on the amount.

American Shorthorn breeders do not seem to
be of this same calibre for they very generously
accept an animal at a big price, if it comes across
the water, while an equally good American bred
one with equally good or better pedigree and per-
haps more individual merit and more real Scotch
blood is not even considered worthy to do service
ina pure bred herd. This, of course, is pedigree
discrimination of the rankest sort and leads to a
limitation of choice which should not exist but
which suits the speculative element perfectly.

Scotch or Scotch Topped.—Almost daily I
am asked ‘‘How can I tell whether an animal is
Scotch or not?’’ From the preceding state-
ments it may be correctly inferred that the very
great majority of Shorthorns belong in the
Scotch class as far as blood lines are concerned
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for they are all well filled with the blood that

made Seoteh eattle famous. On the other hand
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COLLEGE EMMA
A ‘Butterfly’? with a milk record of more than 7000 pounds. She is
the dam of the first prize junior yearling steer at the Inter-
national Live Stock Show 1919. Owned by the
Kansas State Agricultural College.

as far as type and merit go for only the fewer
members would be acceptable to the old Scoteh-
men who gave the world these cattle. But that is
not the answer my questioner desires. [Le wants
to know how to distinguish so-called) Scotch
Shorthorns from so-called Scotch topped ones.
The term, Seoteh pedigree, as applied in
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Almerica some years ago meant an animal de-
scended in the maternal as well as the paternal
line from a cow bred in Scotland. As interpreted
now it seems to me it means one descended in the
maternal line from a Scotch bred cow or from a
cow imported from Great Britain, provided the
imported cow appears within five or six crosses
from the top. Itis also a provision of the accept-
ance of such pedigrees as Scotch that the bulls
used in the crosses above the imported cow come
within this Scotch classification or that any de-
viation from such classification be not easily dis-
covered.

A Scotch topped Shorthorn exists only in the
United States and possibly in Canada. Its pedi-
gree shows an animal whose maternal ancestors
were bred in America and that generally has
from two to eight crosses of Scotch bulls at the
top of the pedigree. The imported cow came
from England to the United States in most cases
prior to 1880 instead of going first to Seotland
and then to the United States or coming from
England in the last ten or twenty years. It is
hard to lay down a rule which will allow the
average man to tell with any certainty in which
classification the pedigree belongs, even if he
had a list of all the imported cows so that he
could tell at a glance whether the imported cow
came from Great Britain and when she came
over. There still remains the uncertainty as to
164 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

the top crosses of bulls. Barring this uncertain-
ty, in most cases all Shorthorns that trace to an
imported cow whose name is one of the first
eight mentioned in the present association form,
may generally be accepted as passing for Scotch,
but this rule is not absolute. To determine the
accepted classification a positive knowledge of
the imported cow and the bulls above her or a
resort to the herd books for investigation 1s nec-
essary.

Straight Scotch.—Often I am asked whether
an animal is straight Scotch or as some say
‘“pure Scotch.’’ I do not believe those who ask
this question mean what they say. What they
really mean is this, ‘Is the pedigree one that will
be generally accepted as Scotch??? The answer
to this question is found in the preceding.
As a matter of fact, taking the accepted
Scotch blood introduced from the Cruickshank
herd and other good herds and which is the basis
for our present Scotch cattle, practically all have
been outcrossed to their great advantage.

Col. Harris did this with his herd, the greatest
Scotch herd in America. Mr. Duthie, Scotland’s
ereatest breeder, used outerosses. So did Dean
Willis in Eneland with the original herd coming
from Mr. Cruickshank’s. An example of the
work of Col. Harris with his Scotch catile is
found in his Golden Drops, all of which came
from Norton’s Golden Drop, a cow by the Dates
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 165

bull, imp. Underley Wild Eyes. The bull, Gold-
en Knight, extensively used in the Linwood herd,
was out of Norton’s Golden Drop and Golden

 

 

 

    

 

 

A FIRST-CLASS SHORTHORN COW THAT AS A TWO-YEAR-
OLD HAD A MILK RECORD OF ALMOST
6,000 POUNDS.

Lord, the last bull Col. Harris used, was one of
the outerossed Golden Drops. Ma. Harding tells
us that Whitehall Sultan had a Bates cross near
the top of his pedigree and we know the same is
true of Choice Goods. In view of the facet that
the leading Shorthorn herds in America are full
of the blood of one or the other or both of these
two noted bulls and that neither of them was of
166 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN -KANSAS

purely Scotch lineage it would seem foolish to
harp on straight or pure Scotch. In fact there
is nothing gained by figuring on a proposition
so devoid of common sense and so barren of good
results.

Fads.—We have always had fads in pedigrees
and we shall always have them, in some cases to
the detriment of the breed. The American people
are by nature and inclination somewhat given to
fads and the Shorthorn breeders are not immune
to the national evil. Shorthorn fads began in the
days of the Collings and continued faithfully
through the days of Bates and Booth and came to
America with the importations beginning im
1836. On their trail were found pedigree dis-
criuminations of the rankest sort. Seventeens,
Red Rose by Hrnesty and a hundred aud one
equally nonsensical terms were heralded as
abominations. The Duchess blood alone offered
all saving grace, followed by the other Bates
tribes and the man who did not possess funds
ov sufficient eredit, sometimes much strained, to
buy one of these precious specimens could still be
near the extreme outer edge of the cirele if he
conjured with the Remick Rose of Sharons.

And so the bubble grew and gathered volume
until with the arrival of Scotch Shorthornus and
the Herefords and the Angus it burst altogether
and the elegant Duchesses and Oxfords and Rose
of Shavons took their places along with the Mars.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 167

Mottes and the Brittanias and the despised sorts
from the ‘‘ American Woods.’? Those who now
deplore the fact that there are fads and discrim-
inations should have been in touch with Short-
horns from 1870 to 1883 and they would have
seen the faddist abroad in the land to such an ex-
tent that by comparison the Shorthorn breeders
of this day seem quite conservative.

I believe the breed is more nearly free from
fads and rank discriminations than it has been
for fifty years. Lt is true, pedigree propositions
are made in the United States that on their face
are extremely ridiculous, but these ridiculous
discriminations will always be made not only in
Shorthorn pedigrees but also in every other line
of human endeavor as is daily evidenced in the
clothing and shoe market.

True Worth Only in Merit.—It is a homely
but a true proverb that every dog has his day and
this is annually exemplified in our changing
stvles of dress. In the architecture of our homes
the change is more gradual as also is the case in
Shorthorn pedigrees. Let no man so tar delude
himself or attempt to deceive his neighbor as to
preach the permanency of anything in Short-
horns except real individual merit for that is the
only thing that can stand the test of time. Ihave
no quarrel with the man who, to gratify his
fancy, pays several times as much for an animal
because of certain blood lines as he would pay if
168 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

the pedigree were somewhat differently written.
That is his privilege and if the animal is a worthy
representative of the breed no possible harm can
come from such action. The statement occasion-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OWEN ONEILL A. W. JACOB
Windom Valley Center

ally made that it is a discrimination against
Shorthorns otherwise bred scems to me absurd.
If there is any observable effect from the paying
of high prices, which is largely the game of the
rich men or of the breeders who are in a position
to secure their trade or of the speculator whose
gaine is to unload on the rich, it is that general
Shorthorn values ave at least stimulated thereby.
A wide range of observation at numerous public
sales has convinced me that every animal sold for
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 169

an unusually high price in such sale helped the
selling price of the entire offering.

Where the Danger Lies.—There is a danger
point in the purchase of Shorthorns of fashion-
able pedigrees which can not help being an in-
jury to the breed and whieh should be a discredit
to anv breeder who encourages it. It lies in the
selling of these fashionables for breeding pur-
poses at high prices, when they are not good indi-
viduals. We have all seen this done both at pub-
he sale and at private treaty. Cattle of approved
Scotch pedigrees without merit enough to be
classed as even fairly good have sold for possibly
double the amount required to buy an excellent
Scotch topped animal, frequently having a
stronger infusion of good Scotch blood than the
fashionably bred one. In this case the purchaser
is either a victim of a false idea of the value of
pedigrees or he is a speculator who intends to
unload on an unsuspecting buyer. The usual re-
sult of such purchase is that the man who makes
it has a poor herd, when for less money he might
have hada good one. Then there is another con-
sideration which should discourage such pur-
chases. Not every one is ina position to sell ata
price above that justified by the real merit of the
individual and the real merit of its immediate
ancestry.

What is a Good Pedigree.—There can be only
one answer to this. Good is the opposite of bad.
170 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

The pedigree being merely the names of the an-
cesters of the anunal pedigreed, it follows that.
the pedigree will be good if the animals that go
to make up the pedigree were good. Tf they were
not good it is folly to call the pedigree good ao
matter how fashionable or high priced it is. Re-
versing this proposition, tf a good Shorthorn in-
dividual is from good Shorthorn ancestry up to
ninety per cent or more of its blood lines, no pos-
sible argument could be produced that would
make any sane man really believe that such pedi-
eree was not a good one. To call it bad would be
to east aside the conmnon use of the Enelish lan-
guage and to call the pedigree good if the maimne-
- diate ancestry consisting of thirty animals were
eood, bad and indifferent would be equally
inconsistent, even though the anunal sold for
thousands.

The Value of the Pedigree.—The commercial
value of all pure bred and registered stock above
the price such animals would bring as grades lies
in the pedigree. This beimg the case it behooves
every one breeding Shorthorns to make the pedi-
eree vood and that means first of all select a good
cow descended from good ancestry, then use only
an extra good bull from extra good ancestry. A
few hundred dollars more or less paid for a bull
is not soamueh of a factor im the case as is the
merit and ancestry of the bull himself. One ean
buy a cow with a good pedigree but unless the
 

 

 

 

 

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bull is right in all essentials he is putting bad in-
to the pedigree of the ealf. Tf the pedigree of the
cow is not just what it should be it can soon be
nade so by the use of good bulls but a mistake in
the bull is very serious and affects every calf he
sires. Do not use a bull of the wrong type or
from the wrong kind of ancestry no matter how
cheaply he can be bought or how good he looks,
for the wrong kind of a bull will spoil the whole
herd. The bull is the secret of making and keep-
ing the pedigree and the individual good or bad.

The Term ‘‘Plain Bred’’.—1I can not close this
chapter without calling attention to the misuse of
the term ‘plain bred”? as applied to Shorthorns.
Lam quite sure many cattle of this breed and of
all other breeds are ‘‘plain bred’? but to classify
those descended from Scotch or later day British
importations as well bred and those descended
from earher importations as plain bred is a tra-
vesty on common sense, and an insult to the in-
telligence of any self-respecting American eiti-
Zen.

As before stated, the pedigree of a Shorthorn
is only a lst of names of the ancestry of an ani-
mal. What the individual merit of the ancestors
of this animal were as beef producers makes the
pedigree. Tf the immediate ancestry of the ani-
mal pedigreed was of the plain, connnon sort
of individuals 1 is a plain pedigree even if it
descends through fashionable crosses to a
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 173

Cruickshank Duchess of Gloster, for a plain or
medium Shorthorn can not be called anything
else than plain even in a pedigree. If, however,
the immediate ancestry of the animal were excel-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISS FLORENCE LAUDE MISS MARGUERITE STANLEY

Daughter of the author, who as- Who determined Harper county

sisted in arrangement and re- should have a Shorthorn Breeders

vision of copy for A History of Association though she must con-
Shorthorns in Kansas. stitute the entire membership.

lent individuals it cannot be called anything but
a good pedigree and any attempt to discredit an
animal so bred by calling it plain bred and by
dwelling on the excellent pedigree of the first
mentioned class shows either woeful ignorance
or an attempt to deccive. Let us call things what
they are and remember that real merit is the only
true standard of worth or excellence even in
Shorthorn pedigrees.
KANSAS SHORTIORN ORGANIZATIONS

The first Kansas State Shorthorn Breeders
Association was organized in about 1884. W.S8.
White of Sabetha was one of the first presidents
if not the first and HW. M. Shelton, then Professor
of Agriculture in the Kansas State Agricultural
College, was scerctary. Col. W. A. Harris was
the leading promoter of the organization which
for a few years had a large membership. The
hard times and low prices of the late eighties
overcame the cathusiasm of the members and the
association held its last meeting at Topeka in
December 1887. A notable event of this last
meeting was the advocacy by Col. Harris of some
form of registration which would indicate the
quality of the animal recorded if it were
of extraordinary inerit. The suggestion he
made was to adopt a standard for size,
general conformation and regard for true
Shorthorn type with apparent practical util-
ity and to indicate with a star placed before
the name in the American herd book such ani-
mals as had successfully passed this inspection.
A very lively discussion followed and in this
meeting originated the remark that Col. Harris
was leader of the progressive clement among
Shorthorn breeders. Although a strong sentiment
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 175

developed for the plan it was not strong enough
to carry through a resolution asking that
something be done along this line. The first
state association left no record of achievement,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W. A. COCHEL G. A, LAUDE
Representing the American Secretary Kansas Shorthorn
Shorthorn Breeders Ass'n. Breeders Association.

its meetings having been purely social and edu-
cational. Few of the members of the organiza-
tion are now living.

The present state Shorthorn breeders associ-
ation was organized at Wichita more than thirty-
one vears after the death of its predecessor. It
was at the time of the Kansas National Show in
1919 that about thirty breeders met at Park E.
Salter’s office on the night following the
Shorthorn sale and, after clecting Mr. Salter
176 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

temporary chairman and G. A. Laude temporary
secretary, effected an organization hy the elee-
tion of the following-named officers: President,
Park EK. Salter, Wichita; Seerctary-treasurer, G.
A. Laude, Humboldt; Executive Committee,
Park E. Salter, Chairman; John R. Tomson,
Dover; W. A. Cochel, Manhattan; HW. M. idl,
Lafontaine and Fremont Leidy, Leon.

Unlike the first association, the new organiza-
tion went to work and at this initial meeting two
hours were taken up in making arrangements
for the publication of this history. The work
proper was left with the secretary under the
direction of the executive committee. It was de-
cided to mect at the Agricultural College on Com-
meneement day, after which the meeting ad-
journed. The meeting at Manhattan was held
June 5, 1919 and it was here that the low price of
two fete for membership fee was. fixed.
Thirty members were enrolled putting the first
eash, $60, into the treasury. The matter of hold-
ing an association sale was discussed and it was
decided that about fifty Iigh-class eattle be sold
at the college some time in May or June 1920
under the management of Dr. C. W. MeCamp-
bell, head of the Department of Animal Hus-
bandry. Mr. B.S. Kirk, manager of the Kansas
National Show, offered a silver loving eup to the
county having the largest number of paid mem-
hers reported by evening of Shorthorn day at the
A TIISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 1i7

Wichita Show in 1920. The next day Park E.
Salter offered twenty-five copies of the future
Kansas Shorthorn history to the county having
second largest membership and, on behalf of the
association, the secretary offered $10 in cash for
the county third in line. The membership con-
test was started December 15, and resulted ji
first prize going to Allen county, second prize vo
Montgomery county and third prize to Osage
eounty.

The association sale was held in the pavillion at
the college, consigninents having been made by
twenty-six leading breeders of the state, all of
whose herds are given space in this book. A top
price of $3900 was secured for College Duchess
2d, a six-year-old roan cow by Matchless Dale
that sold with a white bull ealf bv Magruder at
foot. The pair was consigned by the Kansas
State Agricultural College and went to Sni-A-
Bar Farm, Grain Valley, Missouri. Tomson
Bros. sold the highest priced bull at #1025 to
Meall Bros., Cawker City and Jacob Nelson of
Clay county was a close second with a white vear-
ling that went to a Leavenworth county neigh-
horhood Shorthorn breeders association.

Immediately after the sale the annual meeting
of the association was held, when officers were
elected as follows: President, John R. Tomson,
Dover; Vice-president, Park E. Salter, Wichita ;

\

Seeretary-treasurer, G. A. Laude, Humboldt.
178 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

No change was made in the executive committee.
The do-something spirit was again manifest at
{his meeting. The president was instructed to
file copy of constitution with Seeretary Mohler
which step completed the affiliation of the
association with the Kansas State Board of Agri-
culture. Tle was also instructed to confer with
the other state pure bred organizations with a
view toward presenting to the state tax commiis-
sion a plea for a uniform and equitable assess-
ment of pure bred stock in Kansas. The execu-
tive committee was instructed to investigate the
Feasibility of employing a competent man to de-
vote his whole time to developing Shorthorn in-
terests in Kansas. The committee was also to de-
vise means for meeting the expense of such plan
and to take steps toward putting it into effect as
soon as practicable. It was decided to hold an-
other sale at the Kansas State Agricultural Col-
lege in 1921.

The association now has 375 paid members and
it is one of the most active organizations of its

kind in the United States.

District ASSOCIATIONS
(As reported to October 1, 1920.)

Eastern Kansas.—A. L. Jolmston, Ottawa,
president; F. Joe Robbins, Ottawa, secretary-
treasurer; place of business, Ottawa.

Southeast Kansas.—Wesley Jewell, Elum-
holdt, president; FH. B. Campbell, Altamont,
 

 

 

 

 

SILVER CUP AWARDED ALLEN COUNTY FOR THE LARGEST
MEMBERSHIP IN THE KANSAS SHORTHORN
BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.
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secretary-treasurer; place of business, Tnde-
pendence,

Northwest Kansas.—T’. M. Willson, Lebanon,
president; Forrest Booker, Beloit, secretary-
treasurer; place of business, Concordia.

Inter-state—L. D. Hayes, Bronson, Kansas,
president; I. H. Westfall, Richards, Mo., secre-
tary; serves territory around Fort Scott; places
of business, Fort Seott, Kans. and Nevada, Mo.

Northeast Kansas.—T’. J. Sands, Robinson,
president; ©. O. Dimmock, Hiawatha, secretary ;
place of business, Hiawatha.

Peabody District—QO. A. Hotman, Peabody,
secretary; serves territory around Peabody ;
places of business, Newton and Peabody.

Cherokee-Crawford.—Hirvin Evans, Cohmn-
bus, president; B. BL Barnes, Columbus, seere-
tary; serves Cherokee and Crawford counties :
place of business, Columbus.

Blue Valley.—Joln O’Kane, Blue Rapids,
president; J. M. Nielson, Marysville, secretary :
serves Big and Little Blue Valleys and into
Nebraska; place of business, Marysville.

County ASSOCLATIONS

 

Allen.—J. TL. [loleomb, Hhamboldt, president ;
S. M. Knox, Humboldt, secretary.

Chase.—W. J. Sayre, Cedar Point, president ;
Frank H. Yeager, Bazaar, secretary.
A HISTORY OF SHORLHORNS IN KANSAS Isl

Coffey.—U. H. White, Burlington, president ;
J. H. MeAdams, Burlington, secretary.

Comanche.—I]. W. lustes, Sitka, president; EK.
S. Dale, Protection, secretary.

Greenwood.—H1. G. Brookover, Kureka, presi-
dent; Claude Lovett, Neal, secretary.

Harper.—John b. Potter, Harper, president:
Miss Marguerite V. Stanley, Anthony, secretary.

Leavenworth. ico. S. Marshall, Basehor,
president; C. A. Spencer, Leavenworth, seere-
tary.

Linn.—E. ©. Snith, Pleasanton, secretary.

Lyon.—E. H. Abraham, Emporia, president;
LT. Richardson, Himporia, secretary.

Osage.—Jaines G. Tomson, Wakarusa, presi-
dent; V. A. Jasperson, Scranton, secretary.
AUCTIONEERS WHO SELL KANSAS
SHORTHORNS

H. L. Burgess, Chelsea, Oklahoma.—Col. Bur-
vess 1s not only an auctioneer but for years he has
becn operating a fine farm and keeping some
eclegait, Shorthorns. He is well known as the
nan who owned and advertised the #10000 2d
Rain Acres Sultan, oue of the best bulls of the
breed and the lighest priced bull ever sold at
public sale in Kansas. Col. Burgess is 100 per
cent efficiency and his services are in demand im
THinois, Lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Texas and Colorado. He is one of the most suec-
cessful men of his profession im the territory and
is booked for many Shorthorn sales in Kansas.

P. M. Gross, Kansas City.—Col. Gross is a
Missourian who for many years was a leading
authority on horse and mule sales, and has trans
Ferved lis activities to Shorthorns. He is the
acknowledged orator in the profession and dur
ing the recent Red Cross campaigns he caused
men to weep, who perhaps had never wept. be-
fore. Gross is so likable that when he looks at
vou and siniles, asking you for a ten dollar raise
you hate to refuse him. THe is getting all the
work he can handle and is always booked well
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E. H. Herriff, Oklahoma City.—While Col.
LLerriff is in big demand in his own state he oe-
castonally breaks over into Kansas. Hd is fre-
quently alluded to as a whirlwind and sales do
not lag with him. He throws every bit of his en-
erey into lis work and is very popular with his
cinplovers.

A. J. James, Lenexa, Kansas.—C'ol. Andy, as
he is frequently called, lives on the borderland
between Kansas and Missouri and he practices
In both states. He is one of the state’s wealthy
Farnicrys and one of the most agreeable hosts [
have ever inet. A visit with Col. and Mis. James
after a few days of hotel is like reaching an oasis
ina desert. Col James is one of the successful
avuctioncers of eastern Kansas.

H. M. Justice, Paola.x—The hie sales held at
Paola, Gol. Justice’s home town, ave a tribute to
his suecess as an auetioncer. He is tmensely
popular with those who know hint and strangers
warn up to him on sight. ble is inthe prime of
life, has plenty of ability and energy and stands
well with the breeders ii his section.

jas. T. McCulloch, Clay Center.—Col. MceCul-
loch has a monopoly on a job dy north Kansas
sales, Tbe has been officially adopted by the
Northwest Kansas Shorthovn Association and
handles the sales for this, the bigest district
association i Wansas. The fact that le keeps on
selling for the same people vear after vear is
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 185
tribute enough to Jiminie, as his friends north of
the river call hin.

Boyd Newcom, Wichita.—Col. Neweoim is
quite portly, considered handsome and is very

 

 

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County Agent, Independence
The miu responsible for the building of the pavilton,

popwar in southern Kansas and Oklahoma. He
is well iked because be gets results and ne one
better than he knows how to handle a crowd. THe
isa hustler in the ring and is in demand at many
eood sales where he always gives satisiaetion.
H. T. Rule, Ottawa.—Col. Rule is
atively a voung man. He is strictly
from start to finish and does not fool away any
tune. “Give me vour attention, gentlemen, and
1s6 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

we will proceed with the sale,’? seems to be his
motto. LT have never known any one to employ
rule and not be pleased with him. He is one of
the comiy auctioneers and his progress is rapid.

John D. Snyder, Winfield.—Col. Snyder grew
up in south central Kansas. He is an old timer
in the pure bred game and now breeds Short-
horns and Poland Chinas. John is) serious,
earnest and a hard worker. He knows more
about Shorthorn cattle and pedigrees and values
than most breeders do and in this ne is one of
the West’s best posted auctioneers. He enjoys
au extensive patronage in central and south cen-
tral Kansas and is very popular with those whe
kiow bin.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 187

THE BREEDER’S GAZETTE

lt took forty years of Inehly constructive serviee to earn
for the Breeder's Gazette such alfectionate pseudouyms as
“the Stockiman’s Bible’? and ‘‘the farmer’s greatest.
paper.’ It is doubtful whether any other agricultural
journal is so deeply esicemed by those who read it. Cer-
tainly no other farm paper reaches a higher type of rural
eitizenry. tn fact it has been said that merely by riding
through the country one could invariably pick out the men-
bership of the Gazette family.

Why? Well, because The Breeder's Gazette preseuts the
ideals, the iuspiration and the eommon sense that enables
ment to build such farms as stand for what is best in Ameri-
can agriculture.

The Breeder’s Gazette is devoted to the science and art
of farming the stock farm. Its editor is Alvin H. Sanders,
eratetully” known to every Shorthorn breeder as the
author of “shorthora Cattle,’ the history of the breed in
America, and one of the classies of agricultural literature.
This beok is, within itself, the text for a Shorthorn educa-
tion such as could wot, otherwise, be obtained.

I have been a reader of the Gazette since April 1582, re-
eeiving it regularly exeept when too negligent to renew.
Now after nearly torty years, | am willing to ascribe what
Shorthorn enthusiasm [ possess, more largely to The
Breeder’s Gazette than to all other influences combined.
The stand for common-sense principles and right methods
which the Gazette has always taken, invariably appeals to
the judgement of the a All ie this country are
found successful Shorthorn breeders who are children of
the Gazette family. Its miflnence is as potent as ever and
the breeders who do not read and profit trom its teachings

 

 

 

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oue of those who do not veacd this valuable
paper, send a postal cara for sample copy to the Sanders
Publishing Go., b42 South Ocha dt. Chea

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THE LAUDE PRINTING COMPANY

The Laude Printing Company of Tola is a concern which
is directly interested in the pure bred live stoel imdustry
of this state. Martin L. Laude, who manaves the busi-
ness, was eraduated from the Kansas State Aerient
fural College in 1917.) While in school there he took work
in the printing department and also had some special work
under Dr. C. W. MeCampbell covering live stock pedigrees,
Karly in 1915, assoeiated with Tis father, G. A. Laude, he
purehased a newspaper in Taverns, hansas, and while pub-
lishing this paper beean printing live stock sale catalogs.
This branch of the business erew until they were unable to
handle it properly in connection with the newspaper, so in
1978S he sold the newspaper and movine to Tola established

an exelusive live stock printing house

The business has grown rapidly since that time and is
how serving a territory covering Kansas and the surround-
ing states. The main idea at all times has been to e@ive
prompt service and acenrate work. Nothing has been
spared to make it possible to meet the demands that the
business required and the live stock men of this seetion
have at their command one of the best equipped) printing
plants in the state. The servies offered by this coneerm ine
cludes not only printing but also compiling pedigrees and

data aad ii ferawevion that may add to the value

  

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of sale eatalogs, private herd catalogs, and other work
handled. The tiamher of customers who depend on the
Laude Printing Company for their work imdieates the

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PARI i
KANSAS HERDS OF TODAY

Part [ of this hook has traced the growth of
the Shorthorn industry in Kansas up to 1920 in
a general way, but little or no attention has been
paid to the herds now owned in the state. The
purpose of Part IT is to place before the reader
the herds of those breeders who by their eo-
operation and financial assistance have made
possible the pubhieation and distribution of this
volume.

In the year 1919 and in a limited way in 1920,
T had the pleasure of visiting most of the herds
of which mention is made and of becoming ac-
quainted with the proprietors. The sketches are
in no way overdrawn but represent correctly the
unpression received from the cattle, their ances-
try, the owner and the way in which the herd
was handled. The herds not visited have been
considered from accurate information other-
wise obtained. Matters of pedigree and achieve-
ment are based on standard Shorthorn history
and the American herd hook. There has been no
attempt made to create a favorable impression
not fully justified by the facts in the case and
any deviation from this standard must be classed
as an error in judgment on my part.

The reader will find nearly all the leading
194 A HISTORY OF SHORTHLOKRNS IN KANSAS

herds of the state and of most localities listed on
the pages following. At. the State Association
mecting held last June twenty-five members
from a wide territory consigned representatives
of their herds to the association sale and every
one of the twenty-five is a supporter of this work
and a sketch of the herd of each appears in this
book.

The Shorthorn industry over the greater part
of the state is based on actual necessity and for
that reason it must remain a permanent industry
as long as the conditions necessary for its exist-
ence continue. If you ask how long this will be,
T answer by asking how long will Kansas be the
home of the man who tills the soil?) The farmer
can not afford to keep two sets of cows, one set
to produce calves for food and for the marxct
and another set to furnish the dairy products for
his family, and the Shorthorn cow is the only cow
that will produce a ealf capable of heing grown
into a profitably produced beef animal yet give
a reasonable amount of milk. There is, of course,
room for special dairy herds of dairy breeds and
for the herds of beef bred cows to be kept with 10
dairy production, but by far the greater part of
the butter and milk consumed in the state and
the greater part of the beef consumed at honie
and sent to market now is, and always will be,
produeed on the thousands of smatler farms and
in a small way, without consideration for the
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 195

specialty cow. This is why the Shorthorn cow is
with us to stay for all time and why the state as
a whole must be a Shorthorn country. For this
reason, also, the demand for Shorthorns is broad-
er than is the demand for cattle of any other
breed.

One thing IT observed in my numerous visits
with breeders was that by far the greater num-
ber of men most successful in the business, who
are now leading breeders, hegan in a small way,
keeping the pure bred Shorthorn cows along
with the grades and gradually closing out from
the grade end. Young men have told me they
would be glad to breed Shorthorns if they only
had the capital. This statement arises from an
erroneous view for it requires no capital to begin
breeding Shorthorns. Any man, young or old,
worthy of confidence, who wishes to do so ean
buy on time at a reasonable rate of interest a
good cow with a good heifer calf at foot and bred
again or he can borrow the money to pay for
such purchase without any difficulty. A cow, a
big heifer calf and a prospect for another is a
start good enough for any one. Abram Renick
raised his wonderful Rose of Sharon herd that
astonished the world from one heifer and hun-
dreds of men have raised large and valuable
herds from the purchase of a single female. The
young man of today needs more than anything
else to be edueated to the fact that it is far better
196 A TISTORKY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

to grow a Shorthorn herd from a good, though
small, beginning and in doing so to gain the nee-
essary knowledge and skill required for success,
than to be placed in possession of means to buy
aw Shorthorn herd that he is searcely qualified to
handle properly.

To the breeders whose names appear in the
pages followime I desire to express my gratitude
for favors rendered. When the present period
of reconstruction following the great war has
passed, we should, with speculation largely elim-
inated, enter upon a period of real Shorthorn
improvement such as the people of Kansas have
never before known.
LIST OF SHORTITORN BREEDERS

The cost of publishing and circulating A His-
tory of Shorthorns in Kansas has been met by
breeders, Hive stock auctioneers and live stock
publications. Breeders who have given financial
assistance but who are not mentioned in connec-
tion with a sketch of their operations, are listed
below by counties

ALLEN COUNTY— CLOUD COUNTY—
C. C. Baker, Humboldt ©. A. Sulanka, Concordia;
L. T. Cannon, Attorney at station, Aurora
Law, Humboldt Dale Trundblade, Jamestown
Rk. M. Porter, Banker and COFFPRY COUNTY—

Sale Clerk, 8. E. Kans.

Ass’n, Humboldt F. D. Brazil, Lebo; telephone

and station, Halls Sum-

   
 

W. FL F nan, Humboldt nit

R. L. Works, Humboldt x

Wright & Miller, Humbolit Re tee ee to ag, chee:
ATCILISON COUNTY— ee

J.T. Shortridge, fffingham re ee

; 3 rt ort DICKINSON COUNTY—

a i Arring VO
Prec es Nee ca Marvin Gfeller, Chapman
DBARBION C€ N — ne DOUGLAS C roa re

Miss Mary Best, Medicine DOUGLAS COUNTY

Bea 8. O. Gentry, Lawrence, R. R.
: ae iinet 5; station, Lakeview
tie ote, VVISEy SEOCIE UE 8 E. H. Purvis, Baldwin
BOURBON COUNTY— A is
EDWARDS COUNTY—

Caldwell Davis, Bronson a ; ;
J. M. Davis, Bronson; tele- &. A. Tallman, Lewis

 

 
  

 

phone and station, Blue ELK COUNTY—
Mound 8. L. Harvey, Grenola
Harper Fulton, Ft. Scott, RB. G. GB. Payne, Auctioneer,
R. 5 Crenola
BROWN COUNTY— GREENWOOD COUNTY—
John Met Guire Jr., Robinson Jolin Burke, Severy;  tele-
CILALR ( phone, Eureka; station,
Cop ¥ Seaton Chmax.
L. kk. Macy & Sons, Safford- HARPER COUNTY—
ville L. i. Andrews & Son, Harper
CHEROKEE COUNTY— Barrett & Pedriek, Anthony

H. L. Long, McCune kt. H. Watt, Anthony ;
195 A HISTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

JEEEERSON COUNTY—
CO. UL. Thompson, Perry
Albert) Gramse, Oskaloosa
JEWELL COUNTY—
I TL. Hull & Son, Mankato;
telephone, Lonia
KINGMAN COUNT Y—
Mellrath Bros., Varner
LABET TIE COUNTY—
S. M. Oakleaf, Mound Valley
LANE COUNTY—
Robert Mdmundson, Dighton
B. D. King, Dighton
LEAVENWORTIL COUNT Y—
John Murphy, Bonner isprings
LINN COUNTY—
Davis Bros., Prescott
LYON COUNTY—
Austin Shown, Americus
©. R. Russell, imporia.
MARION COUNTY—
J. N. Smith, Burns
Peter H. Friesen, Lehigh
MONTGOMERY COUNT Y¥—
J. G. Tharpe, Jefferson
A. L. Bird, Cherryvale
NORTON COUNT Y—
H. le’. Riemann, Densmore
Samucl Teaford, Norton; sta-
tion, Calvert
OSAGHE COUNT Y-
A. A. Adams, Osage City
CG, C. Calkins, Burlingame;
telephone and — station,
Harvey ville
LU. J. Franklin, Melvern
M. C. Hamaker & Son, Scran-
ton
A.J. Tianna, Burlingame
Wark ©. THepworth, DBurlin-
gamo
Herb Pieman, Quenemo
OTTAWA COUNTY
Jo 8. Reed, Onl dill
POTTAWATOMIIG COUNTY
CG. AL Crumbacker, Ounpe
W. A. 8S. Bird, Belvue; resi
denee, Topeka
RAWLINS COUNT Y—
Db. te. drishbie, Me Donald

RENO COUNTY—
[farry Leelere, Burrton
Hlaurry Sullivan, aven
D. J. Shuler & Son, Jfutehin
son, R. R33) telephone
and station, Nickerson
RIPUBLIC COUNTY-
M. M. Fate, Concordia; sta
tion, Talmo
Frank ©. Graustedt, Seancdia
RILEY COUNTY—
L. 8S. Estes, Manhattan
Gus J. Klocke, Winkler
W. BD. Williams, Bala
ROOKS COUNTY—
A. D. Full, Woodston
SALINE COUNTY—
G. Tf. Shier, Gypsum
SEDGWICK COUNTY—
John B. Wetta, Andale
SHAWN COUNT Y—
J. A. Ostrand, Jlmout
J. H. Voltz, Wakarusa
SIRI DAN COUNTY—
A. B. Shoemaker, Lucerne;
station, Jennings
L. A. Teel, Lucerne; station,
Lenora
SMITH COUNT Y—
Ss. A. Fill, Smith Center
W. A. Bloomer, Bellaire
STAFFORD COUNT Y—
edward Ulitz, ILudson
Herman Dohrmann, Hudsou
SUMNER COUNTY—
W. G. Buffington, Geuda
Springs
W. CO. MeMillan, Belle Plaine
Worden & Co., Wellington
WABAUNSEE COUNTY—
Gerloch Bros., Alma; station,
Halifax
WASHINGTON COUNT Y—
Win. Brown, Mahaska
W. A. Wells, Mahaska
WILSON COUNTY
L. D. Connell, Altoona
WOODSON COUNTY
I’. AL Dumond, Yates Center
ALLEN COUNTY

S. M. Knox, Humboidt.*—This herd of thirty
females was established in 1914 and two years
later the grades kept on the farm were all sold.
Mr. Knox began showing at county fairs in 1917
and has been showing since that time in Allen,
Wilson, Neosho and Bourbon counties. His win-
nings have been good. The young stock is quite
well grown, and while not fitted, is shown in
splendid farm condition. He has contributed to
the Southeast Kansas sales at both Coffeyville
and Independence and at the fall show at Inde-
pendence in 1919 his entries were good winners.

The first bull used in the herd and one that
proved an unusual breeder of good sized, smooth
stock was Roan Lord. He was by Lord Mayor
3d, a first-class show bull, that was a son of old
Lord Mayor out of Forest Daisy, own sister to
Tomson Bros.’ Forest Daisy 2d, the dam of the
International and Royal champion, New Year’s
Delight. The next bull was Knox Knoll Dale, a
son of the grand champion Whitehall Rosedale
out of Village Maid 42d by imp. Bapton Coronet.
This bull was large and bred Jarge, and from the
straight-lined cows in the herd attractive, good

Ship on Mo. Pav., Santa Fe or M. kK. & T. Telephone, Humboldt,
LaHarpe or Iola.
200 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN) KANSAS

sized, smooth, becly young things were seenved.

My. Knox has recently bought the tried sire,
Seoteh Cumberland. Tle is by Cunmberland’s
Type, the most sensational American show bull
of the times, thirty-seven first premiums being
claimed for him in thirty-seven showings at the
biggest shows. Seotceh Cumberland had been used
by John Regier for three years and sired there a
very attractive line of calves that are growing
into big cows with a promising future. Valuable
additions to the female end of the herd were
made by purchasing at Independence in 1919
several of the choicest. cows from J. TL. Ibol-
comb’s excellent consignment, and at the spring
sale the highest priced cow sold fell to his bid-
ding. Mr. Knox is in a position to earry out
plans that will gnake lis herd one among the best
in southern Kansas.

J. H. Holcomb, Humboldt.—W orking his way
up from agent’s assistant ina small Lowa town
to division freight agent of a trans-continental
railroad, then at fifty years of ave investing his
savings in a choice Allen county farm, tells part
of Mr. Holeomb’s life story. The rest has been
written by his work on the farm and with the
Shorthorns since 1960. Ma. fholeomb’s frst pur-
chases were fourteon ligh-erade cows from J. EH,
Bayer followed by four pure bred heifers and a
bull. Within a few years he discovered he did
not have the qualify he necded so he sold them
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 201

and bought better ones. This process was 1e-
peated olive more when we find him in 1919 with
a splendid sinall herd. [ua the fall of that year
he sold his farm and not knowing what else to do
with the cattle he consigned them to the South-
east Kansas sale at [Independence where they
won the big end of the prizes in the show held in
counection with the sale and made an average of
almost 3400.

Tn Mr. Holeomb’s mand his conneetion with
Shorthornus was ended. This was not correct,
however, for he could not get along happily with-
out them. He now has a sinall herd but it is the
best he has ever owned. It meludes the second
prize cow in the State Association show at Man-
hattan in May 1920 and several others equally as
cood. The breeding of these cows is of the best

that could be obtained and their calves are by
bulls of national and statewide reputation.

The bull that will be used is Vietor Swinton by
imp. Swinton Liherty, one of the very best of the
Scotch bred bulls in Kausas. Victor Swinton is
out of a ranoeulient nig cow that is a heavy milk-
ey and has been a good prize winner against
strong competition. Both sive and dam of this
hail Are ot the ehoieest breeding and he should
develop mto a valuable animal.

Warren W. Works, Humboldt—For a voung
man just beginning with Shorthorns My. Works
has a imost favorable outlook. The Works farms
202 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

are umong the best in this part of Kansas with
the choicest pastures and unlimited acreage of
alfalfa land and all needed buildings that will en-
able a man to get the best results in handling
cattle. The stock on hand is exceptionally good.
It includes the red, Jacintha 2d, an Amcoats bred
daughter of Whirlwind by Captain Archer and
her yearling heifer by Victor Gloster, the grand
champion bull at the 1919 fall Southeast Short-
horn show at Independence. This pair was in the
excellent consigninent made by J. H. Holcomb
to the Southeast Kansas sale and Jacintha 2d
was the best producing cow in the Holcomb herd.

Passing by a number of good ones I want to
notice Lady Cumberland, a roan by the Owen
Kane bred Spicy Pride, a son of Spicy Cumber-
land by Cumberland’s Last. Spicy Pride’s dam
was Maxwalton Rosewood by Avondale out of
inp. Rosewood 86th. The dam of Lady Cumber-
land is out of a Rapp bred daughter of Gladstone,
recognized as one among the better sires by
Whitehall Sultan and a bull whose get won many
prizes at the big shows. Lady Cumberland her-
self is one of the best specimens of the breed in
this part of Kansas and would make a strong
entry ina good show. The bull selected by Mr.
Works is a white of outstanding merit. Ile was
bred by John Regier and was considered by Mr.
Reeier one of the best bulls he ever bred, if not
the best. He is unusually deep and thick with as
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 203

good a back, loin, and quarters as could be de-
sived. His head, neck and general appearance
are excellent and his ancestry is of the choicest,
from whatever viewpoint it may be considered.
Bulls of his class are not easily found and Mr.
Works should be congratulated on his possession.

R. O. Furneaux & Son, Moran.—These men
are old residents on one of the best kept farms in
Allen county. Ut has been a stock farm for years
and Shorthorns have been grown all the time.
The first high-class bull used was Golden Sharon
by Scott, Jr., a great show and breeding bull by
np. Scottish EKimperor. He was followed by the
Hanna bred Reflector by imp. Collynie and later
by Fashioner 4th, a son of the splendid show bull,
Lord Mayor 5d. The use of such bulls gave satis-
factory results and a lot of mice young cows are
in the herd. Spicy Choice, a Duncan bred son of
Choice of All, isin service. This bull is a beauti-
ful roan of medium size, very smooth and even
frem end to end and the calves indicate he will be
a good sire.

Both My. Furneaux and his son, John, are
wide-awake, cnergctic citizens and leaders i
everything pertaining to advanced agriculture.
Theirs is a farm where serubs of any class are
not tolerated and where scrub ideals along any
line gain no footing. Besides the Shorthorns, they
keep a flock of Shropshire sheep. Messrs. Fur-
neaux are forecasting the future on the larger
204 \ HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Farms in eastern Kansas where soil fertility
can be maintained only through the keeping of
live stock. They also realize that Shorthorns are
the only breed of cattle that are both good mulk-
ers and good beef cows. R. O. Furneaux is
classed among the best judges of Shorthorns in
the state.

Hall Bros., Carlyle-—Hall Bros. are natives of
Allen county. They have an excellent farm on
the Neosho River. In one of the pastures there
is an elin tree which would easily furiish shade
for fifty mature Shorthorns. Near the tree is
av running spring supplying the best of water im
ereat abundanee. Below the spring is a large
field of alfalfa.

Do Shorthorns thrive here? For auswer, go up
to the higher ground and you will find the cows
hearing all evidence of giving a large flow of
milk, vet fat enough to sell for good becf. The
Hall herd is not large, about ten females of breed-
ing age and a few heifers, but it 1s a real Short-
horn herd. The bull at the head is White Archer
633595 by Kansas Prince, whose get made a sen-
sational showing at the Southeast Shorthorn
show in 1919. He isa full brother to the eleven-
month-old White Violet that seld in the sale fo
#650 and he is proving a splendid heifer getter.
The cows in the herd ave ved and the six promis-
ing calves from this white bull range from
yneditan to dark roan.
\ LUSTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS 205

This story, briefly told, of Hall Bros.’ farm
and cattle teaches a lesson. <A few vears ago
they bought four heifer calves from Dr. Slavens
of Neosho Falls, at verv moderate prices. (See
Slavens sketeh.) Good care, resulting in good
development, did the rest. Tt will pay any one to
visit the Hall farm and see what ean be aecom-
plished by feeding good Shorthorns on good
Farm feeds only.

T. E. Holloway, Humboldt.—lIt is only fair to
sav that Mis. Holloway should be included in
this sketch. She is not only a Shorthorn enthu-
siast but she is also an excellent judge and there
are those who say that in judging she outclasses
the majority of men engaged in the produetion
of Shorthorns. Few new breeders except those of
unlimited means have seored the degree of sue-
cess that has been theirs. That the Holloway
herd during its few vears of existence has devel-
oped into a really good one is probably due to two
causes, good care and the use of the bull Sir
Hampton, mentioned in the Wesley Jewell
sketch.

The heifers by Sir Hampton have developed
into big, broad, smooth animals with a breedy ap-
pearance, In the summer of 1919 Mr. Holloway
acquired by purchase the Diver & Potter herd,
retaining the most desirable females. He also
bought of J. H. Holcomb an excellent four-vear-
old cow of very choice breeding and with her won
206 \ HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

first prize at the Neosho county fair. Mr. Hollo-
Way is part owner of the bull, Fancy Lad 2d (see
Wesley Jewell sketch) and this bull is beimg Hb-
erally used. The herd has been shown at local
fairs, Winning a good share of premiums. At the
Shorthorn show at Coffeyville in April 1919, the
Holloway entries attracted general attention on
account of thei size and beautiful roan color. It
was here that Mr. Holloway was awarded first
prize on produce of cow.

Horville Bros., Iola.x—On a big farm near the
city is an object lesson that speaks for Short-
horns. The Horville herd is large and execllent
and includes cows which would look well any-
where. Most of these cows are grades and it was
the eontinued use of high-class bulls that did
the work. This herd is a tribute to Shorthorn
blood and the business sense of the owners who
eive the cattle good care twelve months in the
year.

The pure bred cows are descended from good
aneestry and with the unusual facilities these
men have for carrying on their operations and
with their genius and inelination for the work we
may reasonably expect to find a great Shorthorn
herd on this farm within the next few years.

The bull ra ase es a massive white that stands
very elose to the ground. Tle has a fine head and
neck and a great covering of mellow flesh. In
strong eompetition he won the American Short-
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 207

horn Breeders Association bull championship
at the Allen county fair in 1919. Two direct
crosses to imp. Lord Banff are found right at
the top of his pedigree. Any one seeing his ealves
will admit that he isa great breeder. Something
of the Horville method of procedure came out
when, in a talk with Mr. L. E. Horville, the sub-
ject turned to the pedigree of their bull. ‘‘T’l
pick my bull first, then we’ll see about the pedi-
eree,’’ said Mr. Horville, and I breathed a silent
amen.

Wesley Jewell, Humboldt.—Within the past
ten years a suecession of good, well bred bulls
has been used in the Jewell herd. Collynie Goods
was by Collyme out of Lavender of Colstock
Farm by Choice Goods. His heifers have proved
splendid breeders. Roan Mayor was a show bull
of the first class. He was by Lord Mayor 3d out
of a Tomson bred daughter of Archer. One of the
most successful sires used was Sir Hampton. He
was bred by S. C. Hanna and was used at Palo
Duro before his sale to Mr. Jewell. He was by
Hampton Spray out of a dam by Prince Royal,
second dam by Collynie, and represented the best
of Mr. Hanna’s breeding. The heifers by this
bull out of the Collynie Goods cows are altogether
pleasing, having much size and quality. Two
excellent additions were recently made to the
herd. A roan Nevius bred cow by Searchlight
Jr. isa distinct acquisition. Faney Lad 2d is the
POR \ HISTORY OF SHORTIIORNS IN KANSAS

new herd bull. In G. Wittry’s herd he sired
heifers that leave little room for criticism and
that promise to develop into large, matronly cows
with much Shorthorn character. Dndividually,
Faney Lad 2d is of proper type and conforma-
tion. He is out of an exeellent cow of choice
breeding, a daughter of imp. Faney 2d and his
sire, Prince Valentine 4th, is among the state’s
best bulls. Ele comes from Tomson Bros. and
is one of their good productions. Ma. Jewell is
president of the Southeast Kansas Association.

O. A. Weddle, Savonburg.—Mr. Weddle has
plenty of enthusiasm and good cattle sense to
guarantee success ia producing Shorthorns. He
has a herd of twenty-five females. Purchases
were made locally and at Wolfe Bros.’ sale and
inehide some choice individuals of elegant breed-
ing. One of the good ones is Roan Blossom, a
five-year-old by Victor Sultan, a bull of the
Whitehall Sultan family through Whitehall
Chief. Her dam is by Orange Champion 274875.
Another Victor Sultan cow is Hepler Rose. Her
dam was out of Barmpton Lady 5th bred hy
George Allen and sired hy Godwin, one of the
best sires of valuable breeding cows im the ceen-
tral West. Lady Barmpton, own sister to Hep-
ler Rose, is also inthe herd. Another five-year-
old roan is Miss Kiva by Searehlight’s Bloom, one
of the good sons of Searchheht and a sire of
much desirable stock.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN Kansas ° 209

Mr. Weddle has little use for a bull of medium
quality, and for the past two years he has used
Butternut Sultan, a Bellows bred son of Sultan
Supreme, the sire of the 1916 International
grand champion Village Supreme that sold for
£16500. To sueceed Butternut Sultan Mr. Wed-
dle recently bought of George F. Kellerman an
outstanding roan calf, one of the very best things
Mr. Kellerman has ever bred. This calf weighed
800 pounds at eight months old and would be con-
sidered an extra good one in any of America’s
best herds.

R. M. Beamon, Bronson.—Mr. Beamon’s cows
are very uniform in general appearance and con-
formation. The herd is all red and he is one of
the few breeders who will not use a roan or a
white bull. Among the cows there is one that at-
tracts attention on sight. She is out of a daugh-
ter of imp. Collynie and her dam was pur-
chased by Bellows Bros. at Ed Hall’s dispersion
for a good price. Two daughters of this cow
are in the herd. A new herd bull was bought at
the Linn County Breeders sale in November 1919.
The Beamon farm is well supplied with good
pasture, a prime requisite for best results and
one that is not always found in Allen county.

C. H. Ronsick, Humboldt.— Mr. Ronsick
started right by buying choice stock at the South-
east Kansas Shorthorn sale which purchase in-
eluded two heifers from H. I. Gaddis’ excellent
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herd. Village Princess is an elegant roan, very
feminine, close to the ground, and she was one of
the most pleasing things in the sale. Her ancestry
throughout is of the best known to American
Shorthorn history and ineludes, right at the top
of cach one of the first five crosses, bulls that
have been breed builders. Tlers will be an ex-
ceptional case if she does not produce high-class
stock. Mi. Ronsick is a neighbor of Wesley
Jewell and will be able to use his herd bull which
will be a great advantage to him.

Sullivan Bros., Moran.—The Sullivans bred
Shorthorns in Iowa before they came to Kansas.
They have five big, beefy Shorthorn cows, all of
which are being milked, and the calves are being
raised by hand. In this they are doimg what
many small farmers must do in the future. One
of their cows is a splendid specimen of the breed
and in appearance is a dual-purpose cow. She
was bred by T. K. Tomson & Sons and is out of a
daughter of imp. Thistletop. Three of the cows in
the herd are her daughters. The bull in use is
by Master of the Dales out of Golden Mistletoe,
the Hanna bred daughter of Prince Mistletoe
that sold in the Southeast Kansas sale for $1245.

J. L. Jewell, Humboldt.—Mr. Jewell was un-
til recently a member of the firm of Jewell Bros.
He owns a few females, several of which are of
excellent quality, but so far he has bought no
bull, preferring to use his choice of three good
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ones that are available. This gives him an ad-
vantage the small breeders over the country can
frequently have. Mr. Jewell is an admirable
care-taker and he is making rapid improvement.
One of the best young cows seen in my travels in
Allen country was in this herd. She is a daugh-
ter of Sir Hampton, a bull used successfully by
S. C. Hanna.

Fred Lassman, Savonburg.*—M1. Lassman is
located on a large farm that is well adapted to
cattle growing. He has been raising grades un-
der favorable conditions and has recently pur-
chased a dozen nice heifers and a good bull, his
intention being to grow into the business by sell-
ing off the grade end. Mr. Lassman is young, in-
telligent, a clear thinker, and makes a success of
whatever he undertakes. He will handle his
cattle in such a manner as to work constant im-
provement in the herd and local Shorthorn as
well as general live stock interests will be bene-
fited by his becoming a breeder.

C. W. Beeman, Humboldt.—This herd was
established two years ago and Mr. Beeman made
several valuable additions at the 1920 sale in
Humboldt. His herd should become one among
the best in the county. Recent purchases include
a few splendid females of choicest breeding and
the excellent young bull Lord Mysie by Claude
Lovett’s famous sire, Seotch Lord by Lord

 

* Telephone, Humboldt.
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Avondale. Mir. Beeman is a good feeder and
eare-taker and will produce real Shorthorns.

S. C. Caldwell & Son, Moran.—This herd was
founded in 1919 by the purchase of four females
and a good white bull. Since that time a valu-
able addition was made in the purchase of a
heifer by Prince Valentine 4th, one of the
best and most favorably known sires in Kansas.
The cows are of good size and are being well
kept. It is the plan to add to the herd from
time to time. .

Fetherngill & Enfield, Iola.—This firm made
the first investment in pure bred females at the
Southeast Kansas sale in April 1919, where three
execllent heifers from the herds of O. O. Massa
and H. M. Will were seeured. The ancestry of
these heifers together with their individual merit
is a practical guarantee that, if well developed
and properly mated, they will be the foundation
of a good Shorthorn herd. The prize winning
bull owned by Horville Bros. will be used.

C. G. Staley, Moran.—Mr. Staley is a pro-
fessional eattleman with a few good Shorthorns
who will gradually close out his grades and keep
only pure breds. This cows are of good size and
form and are satisfactory breeders. The bull is
by Lord Mayor 8d, a prize winning son of Lord
Mayor and out of a Panna bred dam by in.
Collynie that sold to Bellows Bros.

J. Frank Stevens, Humboldt.—Mr. Stevens
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has made a nice start with two cows bought of
J.H. Holcomb. One of these is by Marquis Cum-
berland, the Saunders bred son of Cumberland’s
Best, frequently inentioned in this book. The
other is by Orange Senator 308511, a bull well
known in north central Kansas. Myr. Stevens
will add a good cow to his herd occasionally. He
is breeding to the high-class bull, Scotch Cumber-
land, owned by 8S. M. Knox.

George L. Weatherbie, Moran.—Mr. Weather-
bie has a few cows of choice breeding. Red
Ruby is by Clief Steward, a son of Clansman
out of a dain by Royal Leader. (See T. J. Sands
sketch.) Her dam is by a son of Hampton’s Best
out of a daughter of Valley Champion. The herd
bull is by a son of Lord Mayor 3d out of a daugh-
ter of imp. Collynie. Such a start will be recog-
nized as a good one.

ANDERSON COUNTY

G. Wittry, Greeley.—Mr. Wittry has a herd
of twenty-five females representing both the so-
called Scotch and Scotch topped families. The
blood lines in the top crosses of his herd show
many of the best Shorthorns of the day and he is
giving his cattle the care needed for proper de-
velopment.

Among the bulls that have left a good impres-
sion on the herd are Choice of All by Choice
Goods out of Rosedale Violet 9th; Prime Minister
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by ump. Prince of Perth out of Goldfinch, a
full sister to the International champion, Laven-
der Viscount; New Goods at the head of Harri-
man Bros.” herd at its dispersion; Cumberland’s
Last, the famous bull in C. A. Saunders’ select
herd; Young Abbotsburn, America’s greatest
show bull; Prince Pavonia and Searchlight, both
of inter-state reputation in C. 8. Nevius’ herd;
Godwin, famous sive of great producing cows
and other good ones that could be mentioned. It
is no wonder that the Wittry cows produce well
for theirs is quality by mheritanee.

A visit to the Wittry farm will convince any
one that right breeding and right feeding are the
two requisites in producing good cattle. The
young stock on the farm is largely by Fancy Lad
2d, a Pomson bred son of Prinee Valentine 4th.
His dam is by the M. E. Jones bred Cherry King
and the second dam is inp. Faney 2d by Cap-a-
Pie. I saw five yearling heifers by this bull.
They were all good ones and two of them were
outstanding. Fancy Lad 2d was sold in August
1919 to Wesley Jewell of Humboldt and Mr.
Wittry bought Honor Light, a son of Searchlight,
the bull so well known as a prize winner and
breeding bull for C. 8S. Nevius. The dam of
Honor Light is Maid of Honor of Geo. Both-
well’s breeding and sired by Grand Victor out of
dup. Winifred 4th by Scottish Archer, the great-
est of Mr. Duthie’s bulls. That a bull of such
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excellent descent should give excellent results is
only a reasonable conclusion.

There is a practical lesson in this story of Mr.
Wittry’s work which [ wish to emphasize. Every-
where I go I find people who buy quite good cows
at moderate prices and buy only a moderately
good bull and give the herd only a moderate
amount of feed. Success never follows such
methods. A good bull and plenty of good feed
with good care means a good herd and nothing
else will produce it.

Henry Sobba, Greeley—Mr. Sobba made his
first purchase of Shorthorns from Tebo Lawn in
1902. The lot consisted of six heifers and an ex-
cellent bull. Untortunately, four head of these
heifers were killed by a Missouri Pacific train
soon after they reached the farm. The present
herd, numbering about forty head, is descended
from this purchase. Myr. Sobba has used some
highly satisfactory bulls but, like most breeders,
he has also used some that fell below the desired
standard. The methods of handling have been
fairly good but not such as to bring out all there
was in the animal and his prices on the young
bulls have been moderate. The surplus has been
sold locally and it is a matter of note that all
around Mr. Sobba’s the eattle are of very ex-
cellent quality, showing liberal use of good Short-
horn bulls; in fact, he has hving monuments to
the value of his herd all around hin. TI feel sure
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that a dozen Sobbas in each county of Iansas
would make every bovine in the state look like a
Shorthorn.

On the good Tebo Lawn foundation is found
the blood and inipress of such anunals as Orange
Viscount, German Laird, Daisy of North Oaks
Sth, imp. Prince of Perth, imp. Collynie, Godoy,
and through Godoy, imp. Golden Thistle, the
largest and perhaps the most showy cow in the
Linwood herd. Captain, the present herd bull,
was bred by Mir. Hanna and is siring some very
satisfactory calves.

E. C. Holt, Greeley.*—This is a small but
choice herd that will be increased to meet the re-
quirements of the farm. Mr. Holt isa good feed-
er and the cattle, as LE saw them, were in fine cou-
dition. Kansas Girl 2d is an elegant four-year-
old red. Her sire was by unp. Collynie out of
Cowslip Bloom by inp. Lord Cowslip, second
dam by imp. Inglewood. Daisy Sultan is strong
in Whitehall Sultan blood and in that of Gallant
Knight and Lord Mayor. Pansy Dale is bv
Cedar Dale, one of the state’s best sires of high-
class stock. The herd bull, a big, thick, rugeed
fellow of execllent type and good fuush repre-
sents the best of the Panna-Phill breeding with
imp. Collynie, Royal Knight, Ingle Lad, imp.
Inelewood and Silvermine in the first two
erosses. Mar. Holt has selected his foundation

Telephone and shippig station, Garnett.
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stock closely desceuded from the best Shorthorns
of the day and they are cattle of real excellence.

W.K. Craig, Garnett.—Mr. Craig has been in
the business for ten years, having laid bis foun-
dation im the purchase of the cow, Secret Airdrie,
from H. M. Hill’s herd. This cow, as her name
uples, united Ma. Hanna’s Secrets and Mr.
Hill’s Fanny Airdries, two of the best families
of Shorthorns im the state. Her sire was the
wonderful bull, Piince of Collynie, which gave
My. Craig a foundation good chough for any
practical man. The bulls used since then have
been veprescutative of Searchlight, Gallant
Knight, Vietorious aud imp. Collynie. The herd
cousists of about a dozen females, all descended
from the Prince of Collynie cow. Mr. Craig
plans to buy a first-class bull soon.

H. C. Doering, Garnett.—Mr. Doering is
breeding some good Shorthorns on his farm just
outside the city. He has been paving special at-
teution to milking quahty and his cows are a
nice, even lot of medium size, the kind that raise
splendid calves and milk well after weaning the
calves. At the time of niv visit, the herd con-
sisted of about twenty females and an excellent
let of voung things by Ingle Marr, a bull strone
in the blood of Collynie, that had been used for
several seasons. Besides Ingle Marr some first-
class sires ave found in the top crosses of this
herd, such as Ingle Lad, Lavender King 4th and
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unp. Scotchman, three bulls that did great. ser-
vice in three southeast Kansas herds.

John L. Jones & Sons, Garnett.—Mr. Jones
and his three sous comprise this firm. Hach boy
owns a cow bought from Mr. Sobba and the
father owns the bull. The bull is twelve months
old, has had good farm care and has wonderful
finish. Lf well carried on, he will be a trouble
maker ia show ring. is sire is Sultan’s Robin,
an Uppermill bred son of Sultan’s Last out of a
Cock Robin dam. The calf has a right to be good
and [saw enough to satisfy me that this herd will
do well. L wondered if Mr. Jones was not dome
far amore for his boys, now of the most tapres-
sionable age, by making them his business part-
ners than he could do by leaving them a big cash
inheritance in later years,

J. G. Lowry, Harris.—Mr. Lowry has bred
Shorthorns for about ten years. Tle now has
eight females, five of which T have seen. They
are good individuals and represent mice blood
lines, mong them being two out of a daughter of
inp. Sunnyblink 9th. Mar. Lowry has used the
bull, Inele Marr, and the herd has received
the benefits arising from the use of bulls earry-
ine the blood of such antmalds as Tnegle lad, kin-
nellar, imp. Mariner, Orange Viscount and
offers bid bas not receryved the care or attention
to detail necessary to secure best results. The

stoek on hand, or at least most of it, with a good
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bull and proper care, would become the founda-
tion for a valuable herd of Shorthorns.

E. C. Meissner, Colony.—Mr. Meissner’s foun-
dation was bought at the Coffeyville sale in 1918
and consisted of a Stunkel bred heifer by Ln-
perial Goods out of a Victor Orange cow, one by
Mistletoe Stamp, full of the Hanna-Hill blood
lines and two by Mr. Massa’s great bull, Kansas
Prince, out of cows by Master Prince 6th, son of
Prince Pavonia. My. Meissner has a fairly good
bull, which on these heifers should furnish the
prine requisite for the building up of a credit-
able Shorthorn herd. The impression I gained
while at the farm was that if Myr. Meissner de-
cided to put up a first-class herd he would do it.

R. H. Trimmell, Garnett.—M1. Trimmell has
all the requisites for success in the Shorthorn
business. He has the disposition to demand qual-
ity in whatever goes into his breeding herd and he
impressed me as being a good care-taker. The
cows come largely from high-class ancestry. One
of the best ones is a recent purchase from J. C.
Robison, Duchess Aberdeen by Victoria’s Cor-
onet 541677. One of the bulls used was Six
Magnet 5th by Searchheht Jr. Another was
Sveamore Sunblaze 2d from the Cowham farm.
The present herd bull, 1 saw asa calf. He bears
the popular name, Gen. Pershing, and looks like
the making of a «reditable bull.

A. J. Tippin, Greeley.—Myr. Tippin is an old
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breeder ina small way, having a nice herd of
nine females, the foundation for which was laid
twelve years ago. Tis cattle represent excellent
blood lines coming through Prince Pavonia,
Scotland’s Charm, Winsome Duke lth, Laven-
dev King 4th and Golden Victor. A good young
bull purchased from Mr. Wittry is in use, a son
of Faney Lad 2d (see Wittry sketch) with two
crosses to Tap. Lord Banff following. This bull
should produce satislactory results and Ma. Tap-
pin’s favorable location on alfalfa land should
do the rest.

O. H. Carrier, Kincaid.—Mr. Carricr bought a
cow at Wolfe Bros.” sale and two others locally.
lhe also bought a good bull, Roan Mayor, by the
prize winning bull, Lord Mayor 3d. Roan
Mayor’s dam was by a Hanna bred son of imp.
Lord Cowshp. Chis bull, now six years old, was
a prize winner as a yearling and later saw much
service in the herd of S. M. Knox where he
proved an exceptional breeder.

ATCHISON COUNTY
Robert Russell & Son, Muscotah.*—These men
have been breeding Shorthorns for some years
and recently decided to put ia herd with pedi-
erees to which ne one would object. This desire
to meet the requirements of the most eritical has
heen extended to allect the entire herd and theirs

Ship on Mo. Vac. Roek Pstind or Sauta Ile
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is one of the few to be found in Kansas with only
so-ealled straight Seoteh cattle on the farm.

The present herd consists of young cows three
and four years old, recently acquired by pu-
chase from exeellent sources of supply. Some
generous prices have been paid and while the
stock is not heing pushed as in some cases, these
voung cows are quite an attractive lot and indi-
cate amature herd of considerable scale and wni-
formity. Imported Brandsby Augusta 4th was
bought at the Ogden sale and is a nice roan of J.
M. Strickland’s breeding, combining good size,
straight lines and pleasing appearance and she
is suckling her second calf. Acanthus Beauty,
five crosses from Mr. Cruickshank’s Acanthus
by Barmpton is not only a deep, blocky cow of
good heef type and indications, hut she shows
milking tendenev that would interest a profes-
sional dairviman. [t occurred to me that such
cows as this were about what a person should
have in a dual-purpose Shorthorn. She is of
medium size and her kind would make any farm-
er money. The five top sires in her pedigree
were bred by Carpenter & Ross, W. D. Flatt,
Wm. Cummings & Son, Win. Duthie and Amos
Cruickshank. Right here I want to state that
the young cows of this herd have all produced
one or two calves, each cow suckling her calf in
vood style. Mr. Russell says that a poor breeder
or suckler will not have room on the farm. ‘* Just
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a good lot of cows kept on the farm to consume
its production’? is the way he puts it, ‘‘and I
want them to be such that if a man found what
he wanted he would not object to the pedigree.”’
Whitehall Rosedale, International grand champ-
ion, 18 represented by Autumn Bloom by Fame’s
Goods, one of his excellent sons and in the second
cross by imp. Bapton Coronet, one of the best
sons of the famous Silver Plate. In the third are
imp. Prince of Perth and Goldfinch, full sister
to another International champion, Lavender
Viscount. Autumn Bloom’s first calf, now
twelve months old, speaks for her as a producer.
Lavender Princess 10th by King’s Secret, Inter-
national champion, son of the International
grand champion, King Cumberland, is out of a
dam by Blythe Baron, second dam by the Duthie
bred Golden Mist out of imp. Lavender Princess.
One of the best three-year-olds in the herd is
Lily Cup by Searlet Secret out of a dam by L.ord
Golden Crest. This cow is the dam of an out-
standing fourteen-month-old bull, of such size,
form and quality as to attract special attention
anywhere. This bull was sold at a long price to
Kepler & Wiltse and was the first of the 1919
ealf crop to leave the farm. Princess Avondale,
another good three-vear-old) from the Ogden
herd represents top notch breeding, coming
through the best breeders. She is large and her
first ealf went to one of the well known herds in
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the West. Two of America’s best known cham-
pions, Whitehall Rosedale and Cupbearer, contri-
bute their quality to Queen’s Gift. Her sire was
a son of the former and her dam was by a double
grandson of the latter and out of imp. Margery.
The Duthie bred imp. Sittyton Victoria 2d has a
granddaughter in the herd in Queen Victoria
by Snow King out of a dam by the well known
Dunean bull, Headlight.

‘By their fruits ve shall know them’’ apples
with special force to a herd bull and My. Russell
says he is willing to have his herd bull, Walnut
Type, so judged. His calves look unusually good.
He is by a Harding bred son of Whitehall Sultan
and out of the Dean Willis bred imp. Citrina by
Silver Plate, second dam by Roan Robin fol-
lowed by Gondolier, Cuinberland, Barmpton and
Scotland’s Pride, a line of breeding unexecelled.
Silver Plate, a white about two years old, is by
mnp. Bapton Corporal. He is not a show bull
but if a young calf I saw by him is a sample of
his get, he will make his mark, for it involun-
tarily reminds one of its grandsire, imp. Bapton
Corporal. Mr. Russell considers Silver Plate a
very valuable breeding prospect.

K. G. Gigstad, Lancaster.—It is only reasvi-
able to conclude that a man who raised a load of
steers that were a national sensation would be
well qualified to raise toppy Shorthorns. Th»
man who visits Mr. Gigstad’s farm expecting to
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see good cattle will not be disappointed. This
large herd was founded thirteen years ago and
only a few, but very choice, additions have been
made since that time. The original purchases
came from excellent sources and were made with
the same discriminating judement shown in the
sclection of the load of steers. The additions
since then have been of such quality as men of
Mr. Gigstad’s judgement and high sense of ex-
cellence would make. Tt seems superfluous to
refer to these cattle in detail, vet T cannot refrain
from mentionme one, mp. Milleraie Costly
Belle.” There is no discounting this cow, either
as an individual or as a producer, and it might
be mentioned that she has this season suckled two
calves, growing them well and she herself earries
sinooth, thick flesh.

Mr. Gigstad early recognized the unportance
of good bulls. The first bull that enters into the
present herd is Fancy Choice, a Bellows bred son
of Good Choice and out of a VDunean bred cow,
Marv Ellerslie, coming as her name indicates
froma dam bred by T. J. Wallace and carrying a
cross of the great champion, Young Abbotsburn.
He was followed by Goods, another son of Good
Choice. A few years later, Golden Lancaster, a
Dunean bred son of the sensational Choice Goods
bull, Golden Goods, the sire of THowell Rees’
Ruberta’s Goods, was purchased. These two
bulls sired the show steers mentioned above.
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Hampton’s Spicy by Haimpton’s Successor, one
of the really good sons of Hampton’s Best,
brought in the Merry Hampton blood and was a
splendid sire. Imp. Gallant Favorite, an Ander-
son bred son of Dunglass Favorite, was used for
a time and left a lot of excellent young things.
Most of the cows now on the farm are bred to
Bapton Charm, a good, big, smooth son of imp.
Bapton Corporal and imp. Milleraie Costly Belle
and highly satisfactory results are anticipated
from this cross. A young bull on the farm that is
being watched with interest is Gallant Favor. He
is a son of imp. Gallant Favorite and imp.
Beauty’s Pride 2d, an Anderson bred cow by
Proud Brigadier 609477. He is almost a year
old, too voung to have certain judgment passed
on him, but he is very smooth and has great
depth of body with fine head and neck. If he
fills out well, as he might reasonably be expected
to do, he should be as worthy as any of his pre-
decessors. Valuable additions were made by pir-
chase of some of the best cattle in the offering at
the leading 1920 sales, which puts the Gigstad
herd in the front ranks.

H. A. MeLenon, Effingham.*—Mr. McLenon
had been with good grade Shorthorns all his life
and a few years ago he decided to put in pure
breds instead of grades. He has exceptional
pasture conditions with plenty of forage of

 

# Ship on Mo. Pae. or Rock Island.
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different kinds and with the excellent stock on
hand and the interest taken in Shorthorns it is
a sate guess that he will be a success as a breeder
and put up a first-class herd.

A very liberal investment in foundation stock
paid out with judgment has resulted in some
worthy specihnens of the breed being in the herd.
Imported Allerton Rosebud 4th is a large red of
more size and quality than is found in most of the
unported cows I have seen. She is a very heavy
flesher, makes a nice appearance and has to her
credit the production of a first-class bull now
used in the herd, to be mentioned later. Her
spring of heart rib joined to unusually smooth
shoulders is noticeable at a glance. Wimple’s
Clara bred by C. E. Leonard & Son and sired by
Wooddale Stamp is an attractive, short-legg¢ed,
smooth caw. She has two daughters in the herd,
Miss Wimple by Lord Julian, a son of the noted
Lord Avondale and Miss Wimple 2d by imp.
Swinton Liberty. Both these heifers promise to
develop well. Village Victoria 2d by Snow-
flake and out of Village Victoria 28416 is a big
roan closely descended from Mv. Cruiekshank’s
best eattle. There is a large, white cow in the
herd that attracts attention at sight. She also is
close to Mr. Cruickshank’s Tine of breeding and
has two daughters on the farm that show she is
not only a good individual but is also a good
breeder. Aside from the eows mentioned, the
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herd carries the blood of Bellows Bros.’ Good
Choice and Victorallan, March Knight, imp.
Wood End Stamp, Collynie Archer by Mr.
Duthie’s great bull Scottish Archer out of a dam
by William of Orange and many others of merit
though of less reputation.

The bull in service is imp. Swinton Liberty by
Sanquhar Searchlight, a son of the very popular
sire, Sanguhar Dreadnaught. Tis dam is imp.
Allerton Rosebud 4th, owned by Mr. Mehenon
and mentioned before. When £ saw this bull he
had been running in the pasture with a part of
the herd all summer without erain and was
rather thin but he impressed me as being smooth
beyond the ordinary application of the term. He
isa growthy fellow, vet compact and shows good
depth of body with fine head and neck and he
makes a splendid appearance.

Mr. MeLenon was one of the consignors to the
State Association sale held at Manhattan in 1920.
His one entry, Village Victoria 2d, won second
place in the strongly contested show and sold for
£800 to a eritical buyer, J. H. Holeomhb, of Hum-
boldt. Mr. MeLenon is one of the best educated
men of the Shorthorn fraternity and he has un-
usually good judgment as has been displaved
in his operations.

C. A. Scholz, Lancaster.—Fourteen vears ago
Mv. Scholz bovehlt at one of the Bellows sales a
two-year-old heifer with a heifer calf at foot and
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bred again to the noted Bellows bull, Good
Choice, from which mating a heifer calf was se-
eured. A short time ago I saw the original pur-
chase and I have seldom, if ever, seen a sixteen-
year-old cow carrying a calf and showing so
much vigor. She looks about like the average
vigorous eight-year-old and by early spring she
will have produced her fourteenth ealf. This
cow, known to the breed as Westlawn Blanche,
has to her credit a wonderful family with more
size and real beef producing quality than any
other family of cows I have ever seen. The ma-
ture cows in Mr. Scholz’s herd as I saw them
looked like 1800 pound animals on grass. They
are nearly all suckling excellent ealves and the
man whose admiration they would not excite cer-
tainly has no eye for big, smooth, beefy Short-
horns.

The heifer by Good Choice, after having pro-
duced numerous calves and having quit breeding,
was shipped to market as an eleven-year-old cow,
without any special feeding, bringing a little less
than $250. Numerous small herds have been
started from the daughters and granddaughters
of this cow.

A later addition to the herd is imp. Rosehaugh
3elle 2d, a roan of aeeepted Seoteh breeding.
She is quite a good individual. Imported Sudie
Maid bred by the S. Campbell Estate is also in
the herd. Her sire, Sittyton Yet, was a Duthie
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bred son of Knight of the Thistle and the five top
dams in the pedigree ave bred by Campbell. That
Mr. Scholz has been using choice bulls may read-
ily be inferred. Barney Boy by imp. Royal Pride
was excellent and left good results but the out-
standing bull was Symphony’s Prince, bred by
8S. C. Hanna. He was by Prince Royal, a son of
imp. Collynie and imp. Princess Royal 62d. His
dam was Symphony by Collynie and she was out
ot Syringia by Royal Knight. On close analysis
of this pedigree it becomes clear why this bull
proved an exceptional breeder, for his entire an-
cestry were not only of rarely good descent, but
were great individuals of much seale and no bull
could claim more inherited merit. Next came
Rosedale, a splendid, big, red son of Avondale out
of imp. Rosebud 2d. I saw this bull at eight years
old and he is very impressive, with his straight
lines, fine head and neck and full quarters and a
great, deep body. The bull now in use is imp.
Rosehaugh by the Anderson bred Osmond 715169
and out of imp. Rosehaugh Belle 2d, mentioned
above. This isa bull of considerable size and the
young calves by him please Mr. Scholz very
much. He rather thinks he will make one among
the best bulls used in the herd.

The Glancys, Atchison.—A big herd main-
tained under favorable farm conditions is what I
found at this place. Most of the cows seem to
have been kept at the business of raising calves
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and were a little thin but the few not suckhug
nade a fine appearance. They showed a good
deal of size and attractiveness. The foundation
for this herd came from a splendid source, the
herd of S. lL. Cheney, at Kampire City. Two well
known bulls were represented im these cattle,
Lord Lucan and Orange Blossom’s Breastplate,
both of which figure strongly in numerous pedi-
erees. No ¢ffort has been made to carry any eer-
fain line of breeding but desirable bulls coming
from good herds have been used. The Glancys
are constanth working for better development
of the young stock and fora better herd for ex-
hibition at stock shows. Twenty head were sold
at the Hiawatha Breeders sale in November 1919.
The 1918 heifer calf crop was sold to go mito Lh-
nois. The calf crop of 1919 was sold privately at
satisfactory prices.

Among the bulls that have beeu used was the
white, ChanecHor, an excellent individual bred by
KH. A. Hess of Lowa. His sire, Choice Kaiieht,
was by Choice Goods and out of Lassic of Pebo
Lawn. His dam was bred by Mr. McDermott
and was out of a daughter of imp. Craibstone.
Alexander 25306) came through J. a. Robbins &
Sons from Ohio. His sire, unp. Manchester,
came from Geo, Shepherd’s and was out of imp.
Mand 41st. Good Goods is the bull now used.
He is a bie, sinvoth fellow and his sire, Silk
(ioods, has been well and favorably known for
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ten years. He is one of the few sons of Choice
Goods still in serviec in Kansas and his dam is
Lassie of Tebo Lawn whose dam was out of imp.
Golden Hair. The dam of Good Goods is by Mel-
lowhide by Prince Royal, the big son of imp. Col-
lynie and imp. Princess Royal 62d. Mellowhide’s
dam was by Captain Archer, a great sire of show
stock and own brother to Sweet Mistletoe, dam of
Lespedeza Collynie, International grand champ-
Lon in 1919,

H. C. Graner, Lancaster.—Mr. Graner is an
old breeder who can recount interesting experi-
ences of early breeders in his locality. He has a
new herd, or rather the foundation for a new
herd. LImported Maria 30th is a low-set cow of
nice appearance, combining the John Wilson line
ot breeding with that of Duthie and Bruce. Two
of her daughters are in the herd, a two-year-old
bred by Carpenter & Ross and sired by imp.
Cluny Royal Windsor and a yearling bred by
Mr. Graner and sired by imp. Gallant Favorite.
(See Gigstad sketch.) The appearance of these
heifers indicates that the cow 1s a good producer.

Iinported Red Rube, despite her bad name, is
a good cow, rather an extra good one, with a
ereat top and heart girth and plenty of size. She
is by Prince Henry, bred by C. H. Joliffe and out
of Rose of Diamonds by the Mary bred Dia-
mond Butterfly. She is a very rapid breeder.
Her three-year-old daughter, imp. Red Rube 2d,
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pronuses to become as valuable as her mother
and is now suckling a promising calf. Her next
ealf is the young roan bull sold to head the herd
of A. A. Tennyson at Lamar and the last, a big,
lusty heifer by imp. Lord Alexander, is on the
farm. It is Mr. Graner’s intention to raise his
herd from these two imported cows and their de-
scendants, which it should be easy to do, consid-
ering their prolificacy.

The herd bull, unp. Lord Alexander, is of
large type. Lsaw him in light flesh and he shows
plainly that he has not been pushed. He is
straight-lined and quite smooth and his calves
are big, thick and smooth. He comes from the
Longmore line of cows, the same herd to which
Mr. Cruickshank resorted for an outeross on his
herd and the line of sires in his pedigree comes
from some of Scotland’s best breeders.

The cattle described above will be kept on the
farm and, to make room for the inerease, the
large herd which for years has been well known
in northeast Kansas will be gradually closed out,
the Shorthorns of modern breeding in time be-
eoming the entire herd.

Ashcraft Bros., Atchison.—This is one of the
old breeding establishments in northeastern Kan-
sas, Ashcraft Bros. having suceeeded their fath-
er, A. M. Asheralt who was one of the well known
breeders of Atchison county. Active operations
began twenty-five years ago in the purchase of
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five nicely bred heifers from R. C. Thomas. In
1906 an additional purchase was made from W.
W. Brown. Harmony’s Knight, bred by T. P.
Babst & Sons, a son of the high priced Knight’s
Valentine and out of a dain by Laird of Linwood,
was the bull in early service. Later Scottish
Minstrel by imp. Seotch Mist was used. Free use
was also made of the Glancy bulls. (See Glaney
sketch. )

A splendidly bred aged bull is uow in service,
A True Cumberland 385024, son of True Cum-
berland 2d, by Cumberland’s Last. His dam is
a daughter of unp. Cluny Flora 79th by Royal
Pride. He is attractive even in quite moderate
flesh as I saw him, with fine head and neck, good
quarters, strong lom and very deep body on short
legs. A little openness and coarseness of shoulder
are apparent, not a serious fault in an old and
neglected bull. His calves look promising though
the herd has not been kept for best development
and these calves, coming through the line of
descent they do, should be paying propositions.
There are some good, strong cows here
and only a little improvement in handling
is needed.

R.M. Bunnell & Sons, Lancaster.—Mr. Bunnell
started a good little Shorthorn herd two years
ago but it was only recently that he made most
importa nt additions, which can not fail to put his
business on a splendid footing. The roan, Orange
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Victress oth, was bred by W. A. Betteridge. She
is oue of the thick, smooth kind with much depth
of body and stands on short legs. She is a fine
prospect as a breeder and comes from the best
ancestry found among western Shorthorns. Her
sire, Cumberland Dale, is by Masterpiece by
Cumberland’s Last out of an Avondale dain. Her
dam is by the famous old Victorious that round-
ed out an uiusual career for Mr. Gentry and Mr.
Betteridge and her second dam is by Lavender
Viceroy, the best known son of Lavender Vis-
count. Lady Avon 4th comes from the Hopley
Stock Farm. She has much size and smoothuess
and is in every way desirable. Her sive is the J).
R. Tanna bred Hastlawn Champion, a grandson
of two famous bulls, Newton Crystal and Vil-
lager. Her dam carries the Whitehall Sultan
blood through the well known Fond Memory aud
her erandam is by a son of Avondale out of a
daughter of nap. Royal Girl. The bull being used
is Peerless Goods, a very straight, smooth grand-
son of Ruberta’s Goods. His dam is bv a sou of
Snowflake, the sive of Ringmaster, and his
orandson is by Afton Clipper, a son of Sweet Af-
ton, own sister to Avondale.

D. L. Dawdy, Arringtonnm—Mr. Dawdy has
heen in the Shorthorn business all his life. The
oceasion of his coming to Kansas from [linois
was the purchase of Governor Glick’s farm and
herd. (Part 1.) The herd im July 1919 numbered
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about twenty-five females of which I shall men-
tion a few. Archer’s Lovely is a five-year-
old red of good size and rather extra finish. Her
sire, Maid’s Areher, was by the International
erand champion, Cercmonious Archer, out of
unp. Balleehin Charmine Maid. That she is a
good producer and milker was fully proved by
the appearance of the heifer calf at foot by Red
Line. This bull is a son of imp. Scottish Sentinel
and Sobriety 8th by imp. Strowan Star. Red
Queen comes trom the G. A. Betteridge herd.
Hey sire is Victor Model by Orange Model. The
bull at the head of the herd is Ciunberland Chief
by Seeret Cumberland by Dale’s Cumberland
390009, a son of Cumberland’s Last and Dale’s

olden Gift by Avondale. His dam is the Duncan
bred Simplicity 2d by Golden Lavender. The
herd has fee the government tuberculin test
and is fully acer edited. My. Dawdy has, in the
course of his career, sold Shorthorns to buyers
from fourteen states. He has the most remark-
able memory for dates and numbers of any man
IT have met. He is sales manager for the North-
cast Kansas Breeders Association.

  

W. H. Graner, ne nison.*—My. Graner is one
of the old breeders of Atchison county. At the
Breeders sale held in Kansas City in 1893 he

bought three cows and a bull. A year later he
bought another cow and from these his entire

Farm near Lancaster.
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herd of 100 head is descended. During
these years many animals of both. sexes were
sold for much more than enough to pay the
maintainance of the herd. Mr. Graner has been
a contributor to sales held in Kansas City and
Wichita. The cattle are not developed to the
best possible degree but they attain medium size
and milking quality is not neglected. It is a
region of blue grass, this country around Lan-
caster, and except in the worst of winter, cattle
thrive without much attention.

One of the early bulls used was Victor Archer
by Golden Areher 149821 out of Pleasant View
Victoria by Blue Valley Duke 3d, a son of imp.
Double Gloster and imp. Lovely 41st. Ballechin
Archer was by Ceremonious Archer and out of
hnp. Ballechin Charming Maid. The three bulls
how in use are imp. Proud General 77409, Vil-
lage Minstrel by Sittyton Minstrel out of Mag-
net’s Pride 41823 and Red Villager by Villager
Jv. These bullsare all of accepted good breeding.
Mr. Graner, while iving in Atchison, gives the
herd mueh personal attention and expects to be
succeeded by his son, Louis F. Graner.

Ed Heglund, Lancaster.—Three elegant roan
cows, even in size, style and color and said by Mr.
Heelund to be representative of his entire herd,
were what [I had the pleasure of seeing in a small
pasture near the house. The foundation eame
from C. D. Bellows and H. C. Duncan with some
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additions made later. One of these cows, it seem-
ed to me, was just what a Shorthorn cow should
be, good sized, fine in appearance, finished from
end to end and suckling a big calf, yet carrying
thick, smooth flesh. In addition to the desirable
qualities mentioned, this cow is a heavy milker.
Among the bulls used by Mr. Heglund was
Roan Goods, by that outstanding sire, White
Goods, by Choice Goods. Another was Goods by
Golden Lancaster, dam by Good Choice. (See
Gigstad sketch.) This bull was the sire of the
cow mentioned above. I liked the young bull
now in service. He, like the cows, is a beautiful
bright roan and comes from C. P. Tut’s herd at
Bunceton, Missouri. His sire is Denmark 7th,
a D. R. Hanna bred son of Village Denmark, the
great Villager bull used at Anoka, and out of an
Avondale dam. His dam is by Sultan’s Duke, a
son of Waverly Dale by Avondale, a line of
breeding which should give profitable results.
This herd has furnished some valuable founda-
tion stock for other herds, among them for that
of Harrison Meyers of Leavenworth county.
John Q. A. Miller, Muscotah.—Mr. Miller was
raised with Shorthorns as his father, J. L. Miller,
was a breeder forty years ago, owning one of the
well known herds of Atchison county. He has a
herd of about twenty females, and only one cow
has been added by purchase recently, the rest
having come from the herd kept on the farm
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since 1880. The eow purchased is by imp. Proud
Marshall out of a dam by Pitilivie Chief. In gen-
eral, E found the cows of eood size, straight-lined
and indicating that they were reliable breeders
and good sucklers. An excellent bull is in service,
Rosedale by Avondale, out of imp. Rosebud 2d.
This big red is a typical son of Avondale with
plenty of size and uniform: from end to end. Al-
though cight years old, he would not be a bad
show bull if put in anything like show condition.
He was used for three years in the herd of C. A.
Scholz before coming to Mr. Miller’s and his
purchase by Mr. Miller should prove one of the
fortunate hits of his eareer, HExeellent eondi-
tions are found on this farm for the successful
production of every kind of live stock. It is a
land of good pastures and alfalfa and with the
experionce the proprictor has had with Short-
horns he should have no trouble, if he chooses to
do so, to put his herd well along toward the top
in Shorthorn rank and prestige.

Scholz Bros., Huron.*—Scholz Bros. made
purchases from ©. A. Scholz six years ago ob-
taming some of the best things from the herd, in-
cluding Westlawn Blanche. (See CL AL Scholz
sketch.) hese cows have been very prolifie and
the firm has had heifer Inek. Tn addition to
using the ©. A. Seholg herd bulls ineludine Rose-
dale by Avondale, they have kept a bull of their

Ship oon Mo. Pae. or Boek Pshine
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own all the time. Golden Prize bred by K. G.
Gigstad was by Golden Lancaster. (See Gigstad
sketch.) His dam was a Bellows bred daughter
of Victorallan, followed by Lavender King 3d
and Armour Bearer, all high-class bulls. Golden
Prize proved a good sire and much benefit re-
sulted from his use. The present bull is imp.
Rosewood Stamp. His ancestry is largely Duthie
bred and ineludes the best of that ¢reat herd. He
is a big fellow, very compact, carrying thick,
even flesh and the calves by him out of the big
cows are altogether promising. It is the inten-
tion to put up a first-class herd and improve-
ments just constructed will facilitate doing so.
The pasture is excellent and there are alfalfa
lands and fine water in abundance. With these
favorable natural conditions are found the en-
ergy and intelligence on the part of the owners
to insure success.

Since the article above was written the calves
by imp. Rosewood Stamp are developing so well
as to attract the general attention of breeders.

M. C. Vansell & Sons, Muscotah.—This herd
has been closely culled. One of the good females
in the lot is a roan, Peerless Lady. Her sire,
Snowflake Stamp, was by Snowflake and her
dam was by the Carpenter & Ross bred Afton
Clipper. Proud Blossom, a two-year-old roan,
is by Proud Monarch, a son of the noted sire,
imp. Proud Marshal and the imported cow,
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Spicy Beauty 8th. The entire herd is as accept-
ably bred as the two mentioned, not only through
the line of sires but on the maternal side also.
One of the bulls that has been used in building
this herd is Rosedale by Avondale out of imp.
Rosebud 2d. Another was Primrose Royal by
My. Hanna’s Prince Royal. One of the choice
things in the herd, Dale’s Golden Gift 2d, is by
this bull. Dale’s Cumberland, one of the best
known of the herd bulls was a white by Cumber-
land’s Last out of Dale’s Golden Gift by Avon-
dale. Another bull that has attracted attention
is Beaver Creek Sultan. He went from Vansell’s
to Tomson Bros.’ herd where for several years he
did good service. The bull now used is Roan
Sultan by that noted sire, The Callant, the white
son of Avondale, and the great cow, imp. Rose-
wood Pride. He is not only the right kind of a
bull but he is getting the right kind of ealves,
that bid fair to develop into high-class cows.
Louthian Bros., Huron.*—This is a firm of
young men, nephews of the Scholz Bros., and
their foundation was seeured from C. A. Scholz.
They have some valuable cows and the young
things on the farm show good eare. The best al-
falfa hay I have seen this vear was on this farm
and alfalfa is a big factor in Shorthorn develop-
ment. Louthian Bros. have a first-class bull,
better than is usually found in a small herd.

 

e Ship on Mo. Pae. or Rock Esland.
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Orange Victor 454255 by Premier Victor 385110,
is a grandson of Whitehall Sultan and out of a
dam by the Norton bred Courtier 4th. Orange
Victor did some service in Mr. Scholz’s herd and
is siring a splendid class of calves.

BARBER COUNTY

V. E. DeGeer, Deerhead.*—In 1908 Mi. De-
Geer stepped into the business which his father
had established in 1892. There are sixty females
inthe herd. The calf crop is being sold off every
fall and these calves are giving satisfaction.
Duchess of Ardlethen is by imp. Ardlethen Mys-
tery and her dam is by Lord Nonpareil 2d, son
of Golden Lord, the last bull used by Col. Harris.
Emblem’s Victoria is by imp. Proud Emblem
Jr., one of Oklahoma’s popular sires, and her
dam is Lovely Victoria by Lovely Sultan 2d 307-
481. Christmas is by Daring Archer, a Tomson
bred son of Archer, he by imp. Collynie out of
imp. Circe 8d. The dam of Christinas is by Lav-
ender’s Choice, a George Bothwell bred son of
Golden Lavender out of imp. Winifred 4th.
Some of the cows have pedigrees that would mect
with approval anywhere.

Bulls of a splendid line have been used; Baron
Godoy by Godoy Butterfly out of Barmpton’s
Joy, the dam of Barimpton Knight; imp. Ardle-
then Mystery used and much advertised by Col.

 

- Station, Lake City; telephone, Ranchman’s, Lake City.
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Ed Green; Royal Pavonia of the same ancestry
as Mr. Nevius’ Prince Pavonia with imp. Con-
queror added and Orange King 2d by the out-
standing sire, Victor Orange. The bull now
used is Albino by Alfalfa Leaf News 7th, son of
Good News out of Nonpareil Victoria of John
Regier’s breeding for several generations.
His dam is by Hallwood Goods, son of Choice
Goods and imp. Sylvia.

BOURBON COUNTY

C. M. Howard & Sons, Hammond.—This is one
of the big herds of Kansas and consists largely
of double standard stock. While an effort is
being made to breed of f the horns it is not carried
to such an extent as would effect either the
size or the quality of the cattle. IT have seen a
number of animals from this herd and liked them
very much for they had size, finish and a high
degree of practical utility. The herd was estab-
lished in 1898 and now 100 females are
kept on the farm a few miles north of Fort Scott.
While the cattle are not fed for the best possible
development, yet they are being well grown and
the cows range in size from medium to large.

The earher purchase of foundation stoek re-
presented good individuals and the bulls used
have been such as to work improvement. Later
purchases have been more within the line of uni-
versal approval as to pedigree and the tendeney
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seems manifest to eventually bring the herd to
the basis of the more popular blood lines of the
day. At the Salter-Robison sale in May, 1920
three heifers, all well along in calf to Dale’s Re-
nown, were secured. Each of these heifers is
by Public Opinion, a son of the splendid bull,
Masterpiece, by Ben Wyvis and the breeding is
not only of the best but it is also of the kind that
is very popular. Since then Mi. Howard bought
Mina Marigold Lady and her heifer calf by imp.
Proud Archer. This young cow is not only of the
best type but her ancestry is of such quality as to
recommend her to the most critical.

T shall mention only two herd bulls, both com-
ing from the leading Polled herd in America, Of-
ficial Duke bred by J. H. Miller was by Golden
Gauntlet, one of the best of Mi. Miller’s early
bulls. The present herd bull, Forest Sultan,
comes from Mr. Miller’s. He is by Sultan’s
Creed by Sultan of Anoka, sire of more high-
class Polled herd bulls than any other bull of the
breed. Forest Sultan’s dam is by Linwood Favor-
ite by imp. Cock Robin, a bull of national reputa-
tionasasire. That Forest Sultan is a great sire
is shown in his get and the reason for this may
easily be credited to the fact that he represents a
strong: concentration of Whitehall Sultan and
imp. Cock Robin, two of the breed’s great bulls.

J. R. Newman, Fort Scott.—Dr. Newman is a
very busy man with an exacting practice and,
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like many of his profession, he is building up
agricultural and pastoral interests by keeping
on a farm near the city some excelent Short-
horns that atford reereation, pleasure and profit.

Waiving consideration of the herd prior to the
1919 American Royal, the purchases made by
Dr. Newnan at that sale put his herd in a lead-
ing position and assure its favorable recognition
by all interested in the right kind of cattle.
Four cows, sclected from amone the best of that.
exceHent offering, fell to his bidding and those
who are familar with the class of cattle selected
by Mr. Cochel for the Royal sales will admit that
Dr. Newman purchased valuable breeding stock.
He also purchased at the same sale the outstand-
ing bull, Village Alderman 796609, This admuir-
able roan was bred by Tomson Bros. and he was
one of the highest priced bulls in the sale, if not
the top. His sire is Village Marshal, a winner
of numerous prizes and a breeding bull that in
the Tomson herd has attracted national atten-
tion. Village Alderman is out of Norwood Au-
eusta 8d by the Marr bred imp. Creseent Knight
and his grandam is the Bruce bred imp. Augusta
105th by Waverly. The high merit of this bull
combined with his clegant pedigree and with the
class of cows as Indicated, puts the Newman herd
in the first rank.

L. D. Hayes, Bronson.—Mr. [ayes has a herd
of twenty females that are above the average in
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size. He has been showing at Blue Mound and
at the Bourbon county fairs, winning well in all
classes shown. Tle has contributed to the Inter-
state sales at Nevada, Mo., 1919 and at. Fort
Scott, 1920. His location in one of the best cattle
sections in extreine eastern Kansas gives him a
good local market for his production. In the
herd are daughters and granddaughters of the
Cookson bred Admiral Broadhooks, a son of the
well known Young Commodore and imp. Scarlet
Bangle; also of the Bellows bred Victor Sultan.
Lord Victor, an excellent and desirably bred
roan bull, heads the herd.

Elmer McIntosh, Hepler.—Mr. McIntosh has
bred Shorthorns for ten years and has kept his
herd closely culled. Oue of his good cows is
Madeline Lavender by a Bellows bred son of
Chief Sultan 279108, Victor Sultan. Her dam
is by Godwin, famous sive of splendid producing
females. Roan Isabella, another good cow, is by
Marr Cumberland, a son of Cumberland’s Last
and imp. Lady Marr. Victor Sultan, mentioned
above, was much used in the herd. At present
the herd bull is Choice Lavender by a son of
Best of Goods, well known son of Choice Goods
and the excellent cow, Runaway Girl, by imp.
Collynie. There are some cows of very attrac-
tive breeding in this herd.

Will Edmonds, Hepler.—While M1. Edmonds
has only a small herd, he is making an effort to
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have ita good one. LHe has used two bulls, both
from execllent ancestry. Choice Lavender is a
grandson of Bellows Bros.’ Best of Goods and
lus dam is a daughter of the Duthie bred imp.
Lavender Champion. The other bull, Victor
Sultan 518050, comes from Bellows Bros. and
has for sire Chief Sultan by Whitehall Chicf and
his dain is Beaver Creek Victoria, one of a very
popular line of cows.

W. W. Wilson, Walnut.*—Mr. Wilson and tis
sons, While comparatively new in the business,
already have ten females and an excellent white
bull. The cows are rather large and the young
stock is being well grown out. TE have met Mr.
Wilson and lus boys and feel that they wall be-
come successful Shorthorn men. They are co-
operating with other breeders in association sales
and in everything which will build up general
Shorthorn mterests.

BROWN COUNTY

T. J. Sands, Robinson.—Mr. Sands is one of the
best and most favorably known breeders of
northeast Kansas. Lhe began his operations along
pure bred lines in 1893, and to use his own ex-
pression, ‘*The cews just had to pay.’’ While
this condition may no longer apply, they are pay-
ing and will contmue to pay well. Just before
my visit to Mr. Sands’ farm he had sold two aive

Station, Savonburg; telephone, Hepler.
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young cows at $1000 each to go into a good Mis-
sourl herd and had refused the same price for
two more because he telt he needed them tm his
business. Mr. Sands will not be likely to make
the mistake so frequcutly made by breeders, that
of selling anything in the herd regardless of
whether he can spare it or not. Retaining onc’s
best is the only way of achieving success as a
breeder.

Mr. Sands has proceeded and is still proceed-
ing along what is usually known as the hne of
least resistance. He intends to sell his customers
what they want rather than to try to sell them
what they are not looking for. In order to meet
all demands which might be made as far as pedi-
eree is concerned, le has built up lis herd ou
very popular foundations and has used bulls of
entirely approved breeding. This enables hin to
supply the demand of the man who is crit-
ical where blood lines are concerned, in fact he
himself is one of the most critical of men in this
regard, probably because of his desire to have his
herd unobjectionable to any one in this respect.

It would be of little interest to tell in detail of
purchases made by Mr. Sands nearly thirty
years ago and I shall confine myself to the ani-
mals that have gone to build up the present herd.
Lady Cinder ella, bred by Georg a Allen, a daugh-
ter of Lord Missie 252006, was Sout of hup. Lady
Clara 4th bred by Deine and sired by Golden
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Ray, sire of the well remembered Kansas bull,
imp. Mariner. Lady Cinderella not only had
elegant breeding with the prestige of good breed-
ers but she was also a good individual. Two of
her bulls, Classical Sultan and Clansiman, did
satisfactory service in the herd for a time and
there are now cight of her daughters and grand-
daughters on the farm. Another profitable pur-
chase was Naomi’s Ruth by Clipper Chief 174+
514. She was out of imp. Naomi Ruth 2d by
imp. Best of Archers. She has produced a num-
ber of good calves and one of her daughters by
Classical Sultan is an outstanding producer.
Ortiz Victoria 2d from the S. P. Emmons’ Sybil
family, sired by Lord Lieutenant 2d, has been a.
good producer and she and her descendants
have been very protitable and are highly
esteemed by Mr. Sands. Scottish Lady 2d by
Barmpton Imight has several daughters in the
herd and a number of her descendants have been
sold. They are large and smooth and are excel-
lent breeders. One of them, Seotch Lady by
Royal Leader, has a daughter that is the dam of
a show calf. Several of the cows in the herd
come from Miss Orange 4th by Courtier 2d. Miss
Orange 4th was owned by 8. L. Cheney, at one
time the owner of a splendid herd in Cherokee
county. Lmported scottish Belle by Scottish
Gem, a son of Gartley Landseer, is a young cow
and the dam of an unusually low down, smooth,
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even, red bull. Her daim is by Golden Mascot
Favorite out of a cow of William of Orange.
fmported Scottish Belle is highly valued by My.
Sands on account of both breeding and individu-
al merit. Possibly the best purchase made was
that of imp. Nonpareil 35th bred by Campbell.
Her sire was Kintore Hero. She was bought
about ten years ago and the five daughters in
the herd, together with their descendants, are
highly desirable.

Royal Leader bred by W. A. Betteridge was
one of the best bulls used. His sire was Laven-
der Viceroy, son of the International champion,
Lavender Visecunt. His dain was a daughter of
Mnp Spartan Hero, second dam imp. Princess
Royal 6th by Border Clief. Royal Leader sired
a lot of big, smooth, beefy cows that are proving
excellent breeders and sucklers. Snowstorm was
by Snowflake out of imp. Bessie dist, the dam of
the wonderfully good Choice Goods bull, White
(ioods. He was a sire of exceptionally smooth,
finely finished cattle. Classical Sultan was by the
Whitehall Sultau bull, Victor Sultan and out of
Cinderella 2d, mentioned above. Clansman, an-
other bull used, was also out of ae cow and by
Snowstorm. Both these bulls did considerable
service in the herd. The ea herd bull is
Lavender Emblem a two-year-old white. He is
large, very close to the ground, has an elegant

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head and neck, very straight lines, a thick, deep
250 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

body, good quarters and a fine covering of flesh.
This sire is Diamond Hinblem and his dam 1s
Maxwalton Lavender 2d by Avondale. She is <
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walton Renown, secoud dam np. Lavender
~ Bloom by Silver Plate. Lavender Emblem was
second at Topeka and third at the Royal in 1920.
That the merit and breeding of this bull put lim
ina high class can not be dened and the young
calves by lim are most promising,

Jj. F. Lukert & Sons, Robinson.—More than
usual care has been taken i putting this business
on foot and there is more than the usual showing
found with new breeders. The pure bred herd
\ HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 201

is Succeeding a herd of grade cows and it is ad-
mitted that the producer of good high grades is
well equipped to produce pure bred Shorthorns.
The cows selected are uniform in type and that
type is good size, close to the ground, straight
lines, feminine head and neck, with apparent
constitution and at least reasonably good milk-
ing propensity. The calves at foot are numerous
and of desirable type and quality.

The purchases were made from good herds.
John McCoy & Son furnished several head by
Pride of Collvnie, Good Scotchman and Gladys’
Chief, the first named having been a full brother
to the dai of an International grand champion
and the last named out of a full sister to the
champion, Lavender Viscount. (See MeCoy
sketch.) Secret Goods by Howell Rees & Sons’
Ruberta’s Goods is out of a dam by Norton’s ex-
cellent Banker’s Victor. Lord Lancaster by
Governor Shallenberger’s His Highness; Orange
Lad representing Lavender Viceroy; Lovely’s
Scotchman by Good Seotchman mentioned above
and other bulls of simular breeding and quality
are the sires of the cows found on the Lukert
farm.

The bull used the past season, the sire of the
calves, 18 a nice roan, rather large but smooth
and even. He is by Augusta’s Sultan, bred at

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Browndale, and out of Sittyton Augusta 2d by
Masterpiece. He is satisfactory and would be
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retained longer but for the purchase of a red,
imp. Myreton Seal, a Bruce bred son of Sir Star.
This bull has good length, he is smooth and even,
with nice head and neck and is attractive, but
like most of the bulls recently imported, is not
so well grown out as our best American speci-
nens. Two other additions to the herd recently
acquired by purchase are Saturn Seeret and
Choice Butterfly. Saturn Seeret was bred by
Mr. Harshberger and sired by Sir Charming
10th. Her dam was out of a daughter of imp.
Kaight Templar. Choiee Butterfly is by Col-
lyme Goods who was a full brother to Diamond
Emblem, he having had for sire the champion,
Diamond Goods and for dam the clegant cow,
Kmily by imp. Collymie. (See TH. M. Hill sketch.)

If the reader will stop to consider the value of
a foundation such as is presented in this herd, he
will be convinced that it is the might way to begin.
The idea of the Lukerts was to get the kind of
cattle they wanted and in doing so they got ele-
eant ancestry as well, for only rarely do first-
class Shorthorns come from any but. first-class
ancestors.

John McCoy & Son, Sabetha.—There are fow
better herds in Kansas than the MeCoy herd.
It is one of the oldest in the state and alter forty-
one years is still partially under the care of the
founder. Phe foundation was laid with excellent
judgement. Mr. MeCoy tells the story of how he
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 2538

went to John G. Cowan’s in 1881 with money
enough to buy, as he thought, seven or eight cows
and Unele John explained to him why he should
buy the very best though fewer in number. He
took the advice and went home with four fe-
males, two by Loudon Duke 6th and two that
were out of his daughters.

Loudon Duke 6th was one of the greatest
American bulls and these excellent purchases
were worthy of consideration anywhere. Lord
Byron, also from the Cowan herd by Bell Duke
of Thorndale was a show bull of the first class
and proved a good sive. Again the Cowan herd
was resorted to for a bull and this time a son of
imp. Scottish Lord was chosen. It was the first
strong infusion of Scotch blood and on the big,
smooth cows a great success was scored.

For years no additions of females were made
but later some choice specimens were added. As
I saw them they were all of the same old McCoy
type as the cows descended from the Cowan pur-
chases. They are all of the choicest modern
breeding. Three of them I especially noted. One
came from W. A. Betteridge, one from T. J.
Dawe and one from Hiverett Hayes and a few
other choice ones came from R. T. Scott of Ne-
braska.

Good bulls have always been used in this herd.
While this does not mean that in every case they
were bred in the latest fashion, yet it would be
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hard to find a more popularly bred bull, or one
descended from better ancestry than Pride of
Collynie. He was own brother to Captain Archer,
Stodder’s famous sive, and to Sweet Mistletoe,
dam of the $4100 Imperial Mistletoe and Les-
pedeza Collynie, the 1919 International grand
champion. Gladys’ Chief, another good one, was
by Chief Justice by imp. Spartan Hero and out
of a full sister to the International champion,
Lavender Viscount. Seeret Goods, by Ruberta’s
Goods was used with excellent results for sev-
eral years and Good Scotehman by Scotchman
245103 out of Good Lassie, a granddaughter of
nnp. Golden Hair by Choice Goods, grand
champion of America, was used until recently,
siping a splendid lot of females.

The history of the McCoy herd is one of con-
tinuous success. It has almost ceased to be a
question of improvement but it is now rather a
question of maintaining unusual size and quality.
This standard has been attaimed by sound judg-
ment, liberal feeding and good eare. The herd
is a living monument to a man who recognized no
rule except that of individual excellence.

N. B. Hansen, Willis—Mr. Hansen apparent-
ly has everything needed to make a suceess of
Shorthorns meluding a first-class farm. More
than ordinary judgment has been used in mak-
ing Initial purchases. The cows are good indi-
viduals, nearly all of them having plenty of size
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and being of the type usually proving reliable
breeders. Bulls from good herds have been used
with satisfactory results.

Three of the cows eame through Miss Sharon
oth bred by G. Y. Johuson and sired by Royal
Sharon, a son of Courtier 2d by imp. Prince
Bishop out of Norton’s Sweet Charity 4th. Two
others are worthy of special mention. One is
Emblem’s May by the well known Diamond Eim-
blem, Mr. Dawe’s late show and breeding bull,
whose get in the Dawe show herd recently won
honors at the Missouri state fair. Her dam is
by Good Seotchman, the splendid bull used so
successfully by D. E. Reber and John McCoy.
The other cow is Lady Marshal by Cumberland
Marshal, best known to Kansas breeders as the
sire of Village Marshal, the big white bull at the
head of Tomson Bros.’ herd. Her dam is by
King Cumberland 2d by Cumberland’s Last,
a line of breeding not excelled. Mr. Hansen
made a valuable addition to his herd in
Victoria Dream 756125 bought at the 1920 Cen-
tral sale and will continue to improve both by
breeding and by purchase.

H. V. Kleppe & Sons, Everest.*—Here isa herd
of fifty females descended from excellent an-
eestry. Matilda, a daughter of the MeDermott
bred True Goods, is out of Naomi Ruth 5th, a
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good daughter of True Goods is the red, Goldie.
Her dam is by Snowflake Baron, son of Snow-
flake, sive of the International grand champion,
Ringmaster. Seotehman’s Helene is a white by
Good Scotchman, a bull that did splendid service
for years in Brown county. Good Scotchman’s
dam was the well known Good Lassie by Choice
Goods. Emblem’s May is by Diamond Emblem,
well known sire and show bull in T. J. Dawe’s
herd. The dam of Emblem’s May was by Good
Seotchman. The cows range in size from medium
to large and the herd is being given hberal treat-
ment.

One of the best bulls used was True Goods, a
son of Fair Goods, the sou of two famous show
and breeding animals, Choice Goods and Ru-
herta. Choice Goods was America’s champion
for three vears and Ruberta was the undefeated
show cow of her day and one of the country’s
best producers. Clansiman, bred and much used
by T. J. Sands, was also in service. The present
herd bull, Homewood Augusta Lad, is a red by
Village Glory out of Village Augusta, both his
sive and dam being by Villager Omega, one of the
favorably known sons of dnp. Villager.

E. E. Taylor, Hiawatha.—Mr. Taylor has a
eood little herd which he is planning to inerease
both in numbers and im quality. He is well
located for the business. Recently he has taken
steps which make lis an aceredited herd. Some
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real Shorthorn bulls appear in the immediate
ancestry of Mr. Taylor’s cattle. Pride of Col-
lynie out of imp. Collynie and out of imp. Mistle-
toe 15th was a bull that sired a great lot of cows
for John MeCoy and he was own brother to
Captain Archer and Sweet Mistletoe; Snow-
flake, owned and well known in Brown county,
later the sire of Ringmaster, American grand
champion; Victor Butterfly, the sire of Victor
Orange, Henry Stunkel’s great breeding bull;
Dale’s Cumberland by Cumberland’s Last;
Prince of Tebo Lawn; Royal Diadem and Snow-
storm, both good ones, used locally; imp. Cup-
bearer, three years America’s champion;
Barmpton Knight that went from this locality
to Tomson Bros. and became famous all over the
West and Hampton’s Best, a great sire by imp.
Merry Hampton.

The herd bull is Secret Cumberland by Dale’s
Cumberland and his dam is by Golden Lavender
from George Bothwell’s herd, out of a Grand
Victor cow. It is only reasonable to presume that
this infusion of excellent blood both in females
and in the herd bull with the practice of proper
care and liberal feeding will enable Mr. Taylor
to produce first-class Shorthorns.

C. A. Babbit, Willis —Mr. Babbit keeps only a
few cows but he savs these may as well be Short-
horns, even though he milks them. The little
herd is selected with a view of producing good
258 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

calves and a profitable amount of milk. This
line of work will be continued. Thoughtful
people everywhere recognize that on high priced
land every edge must cut if anything like a rea-
sonable profit is to be made in farming and this
plan of Mr. Babbit’s with good milking Short-
horns instead of scrubs is rapidly gaining in
favor.

BUTLER COUNTY

Park E. Salter, Wichita.—This is one of the
leading herds in the entire central West and its
vise to prominence has been very rapid. The
farm upon which the herd has been kept until
this time is twenty miles southeast of Wichita
and consists of about 1000 acres of excellent
limestone blue stem land. Good crops of alfalfa
are being grown. Mr. Salter has recently bought
two farms of 160 acres each, close together,
lying ten miles east of Wichita and the three
farms will be used in the growing of Shorthorns,
the cattle being divided to suit the occasion. It
would be difficult to find better natural re
sources for successfully carrying on the work
than are found here—all kinds of pasture, an
abundance of running water of the best quality,
fertile fields that will grow big crops of forage,
with plenty of sheltered locations in belts of tim-
ber to furnish shade in summer and comfort in
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and those planned for the future will facilitate
the handling of stock in the best possible manner.
How Mr. Salter came to take up breeding Short-
horns and what he has accomplished is one of
the interesting stories of the development of the
industry in Kansas.

It was in the cheap times, about 1890, that Mr.
Salter’s father bought a red Shorthorn bull calf
(they had to be red in those days) and turned it
over to Park, then a boy, with instructions to
take care of it. The boy did so, not only feeding
it well but breaking it to lead and to ride. The
bull developed into a big, fine fellow and was
the basis of Mr. Salter’s early fondness for
Shorthorns.

Some years ago while still handling steers in
large numbers, as was the custom of all farmers
in his neighborhood, Mr. Salter decided that the
buying and selling of steers was too uncertain
and coneluded he would keep cows instead. Be-
ing unable to buy a lot of good grade cows, he
bought some cheap pure breds but, ike many
others, he did not adhere closely to the original
plan of producing only market cattle. By selling
and buying he improved the quality of his cows
and, after using medium bulls for two years, he
awoke to the fact that if he was to make any
mark asa breeder he must have a high-class bull.
Rosewood Dale, a son of Avondale, the outstand-
ine bull of his day and out of imp. Rosewood 92d,
 
262 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

one of the best cows in the Carpenter & Ross
herd, was available and for $3000 he was placed
at the head of the Salter herd of Shorthorns.
Better cows were added, some of the first good
ones having been secured at the dispersion of the
Hasebrook herd in Wilson county.

Mr. Salter now had some cows of real excel-
lence and an outstanding bull. Most men would
have been satisfied with this start and would
have settled down to a quite, easy life. It was at
this time that I first met Mr. Salter and he told
me within fifteen minutes that he was going to
have cows as good as any one had and as good a
bull to help Rosewood Dale as he could find. The
purchase of some excellent cows in Canada along
with the bull, imp. Newton Friar, followed. In-
ported Bapton Corporal, the top bull of the Car-
penter & Ross importation and more high-class
cows were added. Imported British Emblem
came a little later and all the while Mr. Salter
kept his eyes open for cows. This process has
been going on and the indications are that it will
continue indefinitely.

The buying and selling of the cheaper class of
Shorthorns, in which line Mr. Salter did a large
business, have been mostly discontinued and it
is now the main object to produce as good a herd
as possible and to have it unobjectionable in
every way to the critical buyer. The material on
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best. In fact, the herd is already on the farm
but the same desire for improvement that led
Mr. Salter to change from medium to high-class
cows and froin a common bull at $150 to Rose-
wood Dale at #3000 will manifest itself as long as
he breeds Shorthorns for by nature and imelin-
ation he belongs in the class that secks better-
ment.

A visit to the pastures will convince any one as
to the quahty of the cattle. Good ones are plenti-
Ful and it is not diffienlt to find those of out-
standing quality. Aamong these is Hallwood Lavy-
ender by the well known sire, Village Flash. She
is the dain of a very pronusing roan bull calf.
Lavender Leaf comes from Canada, from the
herds of W. ©. Edwards. Her sire, Prince
of Orange, was a noted son of Missie’s Champion.
One of her daughters sold in the 1919 Salter sale
for #2000. An imported daughter of the noted
bull Keep Smiling is Whitehall Mist. She is deep,
thick and smooth and her maternal ancestry for
several gencrationus comes from Ma. Durno’s
noted herd. She has a wonderfully promising
white calf that looks every qeh a real bull and
is Slated for at least some service in the herd and
probably for a show yard career,

It will be recalled that in his 1919 sale Mr. Sal-
ter sold a cow for $3500. Cherry Blossom 6th is
a highly prized daughter of this cow that topped
the highest sale ever held in Kansas. Countess
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Missie is an elegant light roan and comes
from Canada. Her sire was Bandsman Coim-
mander and her dam was by imp. Old Lancaster,
one of the best bulls among the many good Can-
adian sires. Fair Mona is by Fair Acres Sultan,
the most noted son of Whitehall Sultan ever
used in the Southwest and her dam is by Fair
Goods, the son of the champion, Choice Goods
out of Ruberta, that as a heifer and cow occupies

leading position in American Shorthorn his-
tory. I shall not close this account of the cows in
Mr. Salter’s herd without telling of three splen-
did daughters of Hampton Spray. These are not
show cows; Hampton Spray was not known as
asire of show stock, but he did get heifers that
developed into big, rugged breeding cows sueh
as few bulls have to their eredit. On their dam’s
side these cows represent four bulls whose names
are household words in Kansas and Oklahoma
Shorthorn eireles: imp. Collynie, Captain Arch-
er, imp. Lord Cowslip and Royal Knight. (See
Hanna sketch. )

The regard in which Mr. Salter’s herd is held
is best found in the appraisement placed on its
products by the buying pubhie. Several public
sales had been made prior to 1919 at whieh good
prices had been secured and numerous private
transactions had seattered Park Place Short-
hors over a wide territory. The announcement
that fifty head from the herd were to be sold at
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 267

auction in Wichita, May 16, 1919, brought out a
large crowd from a number of states. The sale
was a success in every way with a general aver-
age for the entire lot of more than $1500 making
it the record sale for the state. The top price for
bulls was $10000 paid for 2d Fair Acres Sultan
and for females $3500 paid for Cherry Blossom
6th. Two bull calves and two heifer calves by
unp. Bapton Corporal brought an average of
$1450 and a yearling heifer by Rosewood Dale
brought $2000.

When the 1920 sale was announced for May 15,
there were those who wondered if Mr. Salter
would be able to secure so high an average as the
year before. It was pointed out that he did not
have a $10000 two-year-old bull to help pull
values up and that the money market which was
tight would naturally affect purchases of high
priced stock. The day was rainy but a large
crowd from seven states was present and the
entire offering from Park Place Farm was sold
at an average of more than $1900. Missie’s Last
a six-year-old grandson of Whitehall Sultan that
had been doing service in the herd brought $6100
going to H. C. Lookabaugh and the fifteen-
month-old Emblem Jr. by imp. British Emblem
went to E. §. Dale of Protection, Kansas at
#4000. Miss Snowbird Sultan and her white
heifer calf by Fair Acres Sultan Jr. went to Car-
penter & Ross at $5000 and Lady Supreme,
268 \ HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

grand champion at Denver, the Kansas National,
Kort Worth, at innumerable state fairs and at.
the Aimerican Royal was knocked off to Frank
Scofield of Texas at $4800. By reason of these
prices Mr. Salter now holds the record of having
made the highest priced and second Inghest
priced sale of Shorthorus tn Kansas; also of
selling the highest priced bull and the highest
priced cow sold in the state and of producing and
selling the Inghest priced fifteen-month-old bull
ever sold in the state.

John Regier, Whitewater.—If vou do not
know Mr. Regier you should get acquainted with
hin for he is one of Nature’s noblemen. Quiet,
Uhassunine, and conservative he is honest as the
mid-June day is long. When he makes a state-
ment, it is true. But that is not all. He is a
Shorthorn breeder with a record of achievement
such as only a few breeders in Kansas can show.
His twenty-five females, with the exception of
two, were bred on the farm and most of them
ave from cows of lis own breeding. There is
hot a second-class animal in the lot.

It isa umform herd, nothing extremely laree
and nothing small, just a herd of good, big, becky,
smooth Shorthorns.  Hvery cow raises her own
calf and it grows big and fat. The Regier herd is
well fed and well cared for but the feed is not
expensive. Knsilage and alfalfa are used with a
protem ration for the calves. LT saw the cows
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 269

recently, some of them suckling, and they are
as thrifty a lot as one could wish to find. This
abihty to do well on farm feeds is second nature
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with a httle culling out—not much culling has
been necessary—has done the work.

Mr. Regier began breeding in 1902. In 1905
he began showing. He went to the Butler county
and the Harvey county fairs and quoting his own:
words, ‘‘I got first in every class entered.’? The
next year he ventured farther from home, going
to Hutchinson, which was at that time endeavor-
ing to be the permanent location for the state
fair, where with plenty of competition he did not
270 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

win everything for which he showed but he won
his share, among which was first on bull calf. W.
A. Harris was the judge. Later he showed at
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always well in the money but seldom at the top
for the reason that most exhibitors had nurse
cows and all kinds of dainties and Scotehmen for
their cattle while Mr. Regier had only the calf’s
mother and good ordinary feed and himself as
herdsman.

The reader will want to know something of
these cows. Calla 2d, a twelve-year-old red, but
very vigorous and thrifty, is by Nonpareil Star.
Her dam is by Orange Hero, a son of Godoy, he
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN. KANSAS 271

by imp. Spartan Hero out of imp. Golden Thistle.
Calla 2d’s second dam is Bashful 6th by Prince
President 2d, the son of imp. Prince President
and Mysie 45th, a cow that was the dam of sever-
al good herd bulls. Then there is Calla 3d, a roan
daughter of Calla 2d by Good News, the bull that
was shown at three state fairs and won three
firsts, before Mr. Regier bought him. News Vic-
toria—the cattle are named after their ancestry
—is one of the good ones and like Calla 3d she is
a daughter of New Goods but her dam breaks in-
to a new line. When Jas. Tomson, away back in
1897, saw the red bull calf that tickled his fancy
and straightway told his father that was the
bull they must buy, Gallant Knight had his com-
ing-out party and this daughter of New Goods
had for a dam 5th Elderlawn Victoria by Gallant
Knight and for grandam Victoria of Maple Hill
by Chief Violet of Maple Hill. Another daugh-
ter of New Goods is Edelweiss 9th, a seven-year-
old roan out of Edelweiss 3d a daughter of imp.
Lord Banff.

It was in 1904 or 1905 that Mr. Regier wanted
a Shorthorn cow as good as the best. M. E. Jones
had bought imp. Lord Banff, a bull for which G.
E. Ward had paid the then unheard-of price of
$5100 and Jones was selling some cows bred to
him and some with calves at foot by him. Im-
ported Edelweiss, probably the best, at least the
highest priced one and one of the highest priced
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cows sold in America that yvear eame to Mr.
tegier’s along with a heifer calf by imp. Lord
santt. This heifer was Edelweiss 3d and it is
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Mr. Regier topped one of the Salter sales at
$1625

We have been told and are telling over and
over again that the bull is the big end of the busi-
ness. Nonpareil Star was the first of Mr. Re-
gier’s bulls. So good an authority as B. O. Cowan
has told us in his History of Missouri: Shorthorns
that there was little use of any one else showing
against George Bothwell and the get of imp.
Nonpareil Vietor. Nonpareil Star was the bull
calf in one of Mr. Bothwell’s greatest show herds
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 273

and he was by imp. Nonpareil Victor. His dam
was by Clief Violet 4th, a son of Scottish Chief,
sive of Rosedale Violet 9th and out of Rosedale
Violet 2d, a daughter of imp. Marsh Violet.

Good News is the next bull that left an impress
on the herd. His sire was New Goods, a son of
Choice Goods out of a cow by imp. Collynie and
his dam was by a son of Lavender Viscount,
erand champion at the first International show
in 1900. Then came Dale Emblem, son of Owen
KKane’s Double Dale, the great double cross
Avondale sire of such unusual excellence. Dale
Emblem’s dam was by Snowflake, sire of Ring-
master, the only bull ever awarded the Inter-
national grand championship three times. Scotch
Cumberland followed Double Dale. His sire is
Cumberland Type, the most sensational show
bull of reeent years, said to have been shown
thirty-seven times at America’s biggest shows
and to have won thirty-seven first prizes. His
sire was by Cumberland’s Last, the greatest bull
in C. A. Saunders’ herd. Scotch Cumberland’s
dam is by Burwood Royal bred by Herr Bros. &
Reynolds and sold to Mr. Saunders. Maxwalton
Mandolin is the present herd bull with a reputa-
tion to make and a good chance to make it. He
is by Maxwalton Revolution and is a typical
representative of his family. His dam is by
Avondale.

Since writing the article above, Mr. Regier has
274 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

purchased two yearling heifers of Tomson Bros.
for $3000. It is needless to say they are from
the tops of that excellent herd. It will be of in-
terest to note that his six entries by Scotch Cum-
berland in the Purple Ribbon sale at Wichita,
though only a httle more than twelve months old,
averaged $645.

J. C. Robison, Towanda.—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 of Nodaway county, Mis-
sourl, 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 ad-
dition 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 $25
or more in the ordinary Kansas town. These
houses are oceupied 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 T have found else-
where. If this farm is used to its capacity
in the production of Shorthorns, one can only
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The reader will recall the Robison farm as a
great Percheron breeding establishment, the pro-
duets of which won nation-wide fame. There is
a little story connected with its shifting from
Percherons to Shorthorns aside from the regular
one furnished by the auto and the tractor and the
truck. Wm. Ellett, oldest son of the family, is
a 1920 graduate of the Department of Animal
Husbandry in the Kansas State Agricultural
College and wants to specialize in Shorthorns.
Mr. Robison, while apparently good for many
vears, realizes what some middle-aged men do
not seem to understand, that natural inclination
for any vocation, if properly directed, is an in-
valuable asset in the race for suecess. He knows
that in the natural course of events his sons
should be in the prime of life when for him lfe’s
activities have ceased, hence the trip to Scotland
for Shorthorns, direct from the locality that has
elven fame to the breed.

It is an ‘‘all-imported”’ lot of reds, whites and
roans that is the foundation for the herd of the
future. Some of the younger animals are not as
well developed as the better American specimens,
and at the time I saw them, April 29, were still
showing effects of their recent hardships, imnei-
dent to importation. They are, however, nice,
smooth, breedy looking specimens and within a
few years the good pastures and the alfalfa will
have done the work so scriously interfered
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with by the war time conditions in Scotland.

There are about thirty females including
heiter calves at foot, in the herd. I was partieu-
larly unpressed with Balleechin Rosewood 3d, a
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BRIGHT GEM As A TWO-YEAR-OLD WITH BULL CALF
A prize winner in Scotland, imported by Myr. Robison.

short legs, has fine length, great depth and very
straight lines. Her head and neck and covering
of flesh ave superb. Barring a little prominence
of hip and unevenness of rump, she could hardly
be improved. She is by the Duthie bred Golden
Baron out cf Rosewood 82d. Her grandam is
Rosewood Toth by Waverly, which cow is the
dam of inp. Rosewood 92d, dain of John Potter’s
Rosewood Dale. Bright Gem is a red two-year-old
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daughter of the noted sire, Collynie Bright Star.
She stood third in her class at the Perth-
shire show last season. She is large, smooth and
looks like a good breeding prospect. txintore
Beauty 4th and Kintore Victoria came from
Sutherlands in Aberdeenshire. Their sire is
Cluny Prince Victor, bred by Lady Catheart.
They look like the making of good breeding cows.
Bouquhan Bellona Princess is by the highly es-
teemed bull, Collynie Cupbearer, and in addition
to beig one of the best cows of the importation,
she has proved a breeder of excellent stock, her
bull calf being one of the best on the farm. May-
flower Mint is a three-year-old roan, bred by
Robert Bruee. She is Bruce bred for ten gen-
erations on her dam’s side and the sires were
bred by Bruce, Duthie, Marr, Taylor, Shepherd
and Cruickshank. Those who want something
coming from top herds all the way down should
be pleased with this pedigree.

T could go on at length and tell of cach of the
several females on the farm, but I shall do so only
in a general way. Some of the choicest herds
of Perthshire and Aberdeenshire have been
dvawn on for these cattle. Amone them are
those of Messrs. Butter, Drone, Strang, Syms,
Hunter, Jaffrey, Wilson, Major Graham Sterl-
ing, Robt. Bruce, Rennie, Durno, Stephen,
Sutherland, Campbell of Kinnellar fame and
Duthie, whose reputation is world-wide.
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Mr. Robison realizes that it is the bull that
must be relicd upon for a good herd and he has
made an effort to get the best available. In order
to have a better chance at selection, he is saving
four young bulls until he can see how they de-
velop. One of these, Herald, (vol. 66 E. H. B.)
is a white of unusual promise, low down, wide,
smooth, well covered and large. His sire is the
Duthie bred Collynie Lavender King. He will
be used liberally this season. Another that is now
being tried out is the red, Diamond Star, bred by
Mr. Drone and sired by Gloaming Star. Though
less than fourteen months old at the time of my
visit and having had at least some set-back by
reason of the long trip and quarantine, he
weighed in only light flesh, 1115 pounds. He is of
accepted show vard type with a full share of
qualifications for the show ring. Another is
Lord Aberdeen bred by James Durno. This
fellow proved a very poor sailor but is doing well
now aud will be given a chance to develop into a
good bull as Mr. Robison believes he will.

As illustrating the owner’s determination to
put a top notch bull at the head of the herd, he
said to me, ‘‘ Now if neither of these calves makes
as good a bull as can be had elsewhere, I will get
one elsewhere, for I am determined to head this
berd with a bull of the highest class.’’ I believe
the spirit which prompted the purchase of Ca-
sino, admittedly the best stallion of bis day, for
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the Whitewater Stock Farm will find a parallel
in the bull which will head this herd.

At the Salter-Robison sale held at Wichita
May 15, 1920, a consignment of twenty-seven
head, which included several of the imported
eattle, made an average of $920. Sweet Fra-
grance, bred by Wim. Duthie, sold to Albert Hul-
tine of Nebraska for $2400, and a number of the
American bred females sold for more than $1000.
It should be kept in mind that the cattle were in
thin flesh and that Mr. Robison retained the
most desirable ones in his foundation herd.

Fremont Leidy, Leon.*—Mr. Leidy is the old-
est breeder of his community. Nine years ago he
went to the Alex Fraser dispersion and bought
three of the best cows of that excellent herd. Pre-
vious to this he had bought from the J. F. Stod-
der herd a trio of splendid cows. This gave him
daughters of Falsetto, the noted Norton bull;
Silk Goods, the son of Choice Goods and Lassie
of Tebo Lawn and Captaim Archer, one of the
best sires in the West. They were out of dams by
th Duke of Hillsdale, one of the last of
his great family; Lord Thistle, son of the
noted cow, Mysie 45th and Gwendoline’s Prinee,
another son of Mysie 45th. he herd has been
very prolifie and four sales of about forty head
each have been held, the greater part of the of-
Ferines having been descended from these cows

Ship ou Frisco or Santa le.
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and from two purchased from B. B. & H. T.
Groom. Some of the best of these cattle are
still on the farm.

Other purchases of good stock were made of
which only a few of those now in the herd will be
mentioned. Ewing Acres Victoria, a handsome
dark roan, is by Linwood Dale. She comes from
the Ewing Bros.’ Missouri herd and is by the
the sire of immerous prize winners. On her danv’s
side she combines the blood of four of America’s
and Europe’s great Shorthorns, nap. Nonpareil
Victor, imp. Collynie, imp. Craven Kiight and
inp. Princess Alice. Lady Ikatherine is a two-
vear-old of great promise. She is out of a mag-
nificent cow by Captain Archer and would be a
eredit to any herd. Lawndale Wildeves 24th has
been and still is an extraordinary breeder. She
is a daughter of Falsetto out of a Falsetto dam.
second dam by Prince Royal 2d giving her the
cross to imp. Princess Alice, the greatest cow of
her day. Princess Beauty by Captain Archer
must be counted among the best cows I have seen
this year. She is large, very attractive, very
smoothly covered and has furnished several
raluable additions to the herd. Maid of Orieans
is another Fraser cow that bas added wealth to
the herd in raising exceptionally good calves.
Two elegant young cows are Rosebud 7th and
White Beauty, both bred in Lowa and by
Prince Blythesome, a grandson of Victor Baron
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and unp. Craibstone with an imp. Nonpareil
Victor cross near the top of the  pedi-
gree. ‘They are four crosses from imp. Rose-
blush bred by Duthie. Secrecy, a good young
cow, is a granddaughter of Secret of Hill Farm
3d, a Dustin bred daughter of imp. Merry Hamp-
ton. She has a white heifer calf by imp. Bapton
Corporal for which tempting offers running
near four figures have been refused.

Three additions were made at the Royal sale
in 1919. Musical, twenty-five months old with
heifer calf at foot, was not only one of the bar-
gains but one of the really desirable things in
the offering. Hew Shorthorns have such a wealth
of ancestry. Among her immediate ances-
tors are Pleasant Dale 2d out of the dam of the
$10000 2d Fair Acres Sultan; Captain Archer,
own brother to Swect Mistletoe, dam of Lespe-
deza Collynie, 1919 International grand cham-
pion; limp. Collynie, the sire of Sweet Mistletoe
and scores of the best Shorthorns ever owned in
the central West besides Royal Knight, the best
son of imp. Princess Alice, the outstanding cow
of her generation. As an addition to a breeding
herd Musical should prove of great value. Miss
Monarch 2d, two years old with four grand
champions of America in the first three crosses,
was one of the clegant heifers sold by Harriman
Bros. and fell to Mr. Leidy’s bidding.

The present herd bull is leaving so great an
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lmpress that too mueh could not be said in his
favor. In looking over his calves I was struck
with their valuable Shorthorn characteristics.
They have plenty of size and are uniform in type
and general appearance and they are excellent
feeders. This bull is Cedar Dale. He is not par-
ticularly impressive in appearance and has been
dehorned, but as a sire of real Shorthorns he
will need to be classed among the truly good Kan-
sas bulls.

Mr. Leidy for the first time entered the show
ving at the 1920 Kansas National in Wichita and
won more than the usual honors given new ex-
hibitors. His young herd bull, recently bought
of Tomson Bros., was placed fifth following the
entries of the professional show men with highly
fitted animals. His young herd won second place
in the contest and two of his junior heifer calves
were well in the money. It is a great credit to
any breeder to be able to make a showing in such
closely contested classes,

My. Leidy has ereditably served his district as
state senator and is recognized as one of the best
orators 1n Kansas. Those who have visited the
Leidy home will agree that much of the success
achieved with Shorthorns is due to Mrs. Leidy
who takes an unusual interest in the cattle and
whose judgment on Shorthorns is excellent.

Joe King & Son, Potwin.—This firm has a
large establishment and a pure bred herd has
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heen kept for about twenty years. The main herd,
however, has consisted of high grades and com-
mercial stock. This is to be changed and in the
future they will specialize on Shorthorns. Early
in their work they bought of C. S. Nevius a few
of his famous Scotch Josephines, one of the best
fanules of Kansas Shorthorns. They also
secured Poppy’s Pride bred by B. O. Cowan and
sured by his great bull, Norfolk, and out of a dam
by Victor Knight; Lovely Lassie by Victor Areh-
er 163364, a Prather bred son of Fearless Archer ;
Paquita by Prince of Tebo Lawn out of a cow by
Prince Armour, the great white son of imp.
Princess Alice and others of simular class. This
gave them a splendid working foundation. The
bulls used have, as a whole, been good ones.
Wlule no extravagant prices have been paid,
Messrs. King have held in view first of all the
market requirements and profit to the producer
and have demanded that thei herd bull be a
strictly good beef animal. A study of the pedi-
erees of the bulls used shows them closely de-
scended from the best Shorthorns of the day.
Among the first sives in service was Airdrie Vis-
count bred by CG. KE. Leonard. His sire was Lav-
ender Viscount, American grand champion and
his dain was by the 538d Duke of Airdric, one of
the best bulls of the most popular family of
Shorthorns in the world. The S. C. Hanna bred
Inele 231949; Master Mason 374696 bred by
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M. E. Jones and Supreme Victor 394156, a Stun-
kel bred son of Victor Orange, were among the
good ones used. The bull now in service bred by
H. G. Brookover, Victory 2d 690174, is a nice
roan descended from choice ancestry. He is a big,
smooth, rugged fellow, and, like his predecessors,
one of the profitable kind. The conditions under
which the herd has been kept are such as to de-
velop medium size and to insure to the purchaser
an animal which will continue to do well with
good ordinary farm eare.

Clarence Leidy, Leon.—I feel sure that My.
Leidy is going to be a good breeder. Among the
excellent females in the herd is Superb Cecelia, a
“superb” light roan. Her sire is Superb Omega
by Uppermill Omega and she traces through a
line of good Canadian breeders to the Campbell
bred imported Cecelia 4th. Mysie 2d, a smooth
red, carries her credentials as a producer in her
twelve-month-old heifer, an extra good one by
Cedar Dale. In her immediate ancestry is found
the great old bull Lord Mayor and the equally
great cow imp. Marigold 50th. Two other cows
of the kind it pays to have, come from Mr. Roe-
ingk. The one combines the best Scotch blood
lines with Col. Vaile’s noted Waterloos. The
other is a daughter of Superb Sultan by White-
hall Sultan. She is not only of exceptionally
good beef type but is also a heavy milker. At the
1919 Stunkel sale Mr. Leidy bought two choice
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Fomales. Royal Empress 12th is by Cumberland
Diamond. She was not only the best heifer in
the sale but she would look good in any herd and
her breeding is as good as her individuality. Her
dam was by Victor Orange, one of the noted bulls
of the breed and her second dam was by Star
Goods, own brother to Bellows Bros.’ champion,
Diamond Goods. The other cow is by Star Goods
out of a Victor Orange dam and is of the regula-
tion Stunkel breeding.

Mr. Leidy has been using Fremont Leidy’s
Cedar Dale and the two brothers who live on ad-
jJoming farms will continue to co-operate to some
extent in the matter of bulls, but it was also
deemed necessary to have a bull on this farm. At
the Purple Ribbon sale held in January 1920 at
Wichita, the excelent young prize winning bull
from EF. C. Barber & Sons’ consigument was
secured at one of the high prices of the sale.

G. W. Brown & Sons, Leon.—It is a good lot
of cattle which this firm is getting together. The
herd represents their purchases at the last two
sales held by Fremont Leidy where they were
quite critical in their selections. About forty
females are now on the farm, most of them of
the well known Leidy breeding, coming from the
Fraser herd through daughters of Falsetto, Silk
Coods and Crown Prince of Lawnsdale and from
J. FL Stodder through daughters of Captain
Areher and Gwendoline’s Prince, lines” of
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breeding typical of splendid results. They have
added to their purchases some of the very best of
Mr. Leidy’s later acquisitions. Roan Violet, an
outstanding three-year-old heifer, a daughter of
the excellent sire, Wooddale Chieftain, a son of
The Choice of All, is out of a cow by Violet
Chunk, an outstanding sire of H. C. Dunean’s
breeding. Mr. and Mrs. Leidy reluctantly
parted with this cow. Roxana, a splendid roan
by Secret Robin, now at the head of Miss M .V.
StanJey’s herd (see Stanley sketch) is out of a
dam by Wooddale Chieftain followed by Lord
Mayor 3d and Secret Archer, all strictly ligh-
class bulls. Another excellent purchase was the
red, Geraldine, that in her three top crosses
carries the blood of famous sires such as Lord
Lovel, Lavender Viscount and imp. Cupbearer.
With proper handling this should become a
first-class herd.

A. G. Sowers, Leon.—At the Leidy sale held
recently, Mr. Sowers made four valuable addi-
tions to his little herd. His cows are of the same
breeding as Mr. Leidy’s and are good individ-
uals. This herd is built on a foundation largely
representative of the most famous cattle of any
breed in the world’s history, the Bates Oxfords,
Kirklevingtons and Duchesses and it is nicely
topped out with Scotch bulls. Searchlight Lad
by Searchlight; Silk Goods by Choice Goods;
Falsetto, the famous sire in the Fraser herd and
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Hampton’s Sharon by Hampton Primrose, an
excelent Hampton Spray bull, are some of the
sires appearing in the top crosses. This insures
a select line of breeding cows. Mr. Sowers will be
able to use Mr. Leidy’s bulls.

Hubert A. Haynes, Rosalia —Mr. Haynes isa
new breeder with ten females and a good bull.
Most of his purchases came from Fremont
Leidy and a few from J. C. Robison and the
cattle are representative of these two herds. The
first bull used was by a son of Searchlight out of
a Kellerman Scotch Josephine. The present sire
is a Leidy bred son of Hampton Sharon, a son
of Hampton Primrose.

A. J. Tull, Leon.—Mr. Tull is another one of
Fremont Leidy’s near neighbors who laid a good
foundation at his sale. A very promising roan
heifer by Sceret. Robin (see Miss Stanley’s
sketch) should serve as an excellent foundation
to which he intends making an occasional addi-
tion. This heifer comes from an elegant line of
ancestry four generations of which, on both
sides, I knew well and admired on account of
their merit.

CHASE COUNTY

W. J. Sayre, Cedar Point.—The man who ean
breed trom his cows a ear load of ealves and feed
them so they will sell at twelve months at a high-
er market price than any other calves on the
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Kansas City market is not only an accomplished
feeder but he is also a breeder of the first class.
Mr. Sayre did that, not only onee, but he did it
nine times out of ten years he has been feeding
his calf crop. It was not a load selected from
many, but these wonderful market toppers were
the entire crop, culls and all. No breeder within
my knowledge has te his eredit a higher accom-
plishment than has Mr. Sayre for he has gone to
the court of last resort and has received for his
cattle and for his methods the strongest possible
endorsement. Most of these calves were grades,
some were pure breds, probably the culls of both
sexes and the reader can imagine what the choice
ones would be when developed.

A new order of things has arisen. The nursery
which furnished the material for the conquest of
the beef market of the Southwest has now turned
into a different channel. The grades have been
disposed of and the least desirable of the pure
breds have gone into other herds. The forty-
five females now on the farm are such as to meet
the exacting requirements of the owner. This
means that they are not only first-class individu-
als but also that they carry through their anees-
try an inheritance of merit and uniformity rich
enough to almost guarantee they will reproduce
their kind. This is an inestimable advantage to
the buyer of breeding stock for he can be sure
before hand of the kind of calves he will ect from
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a bull so descended. A study of the ancestry of
Mr. Sayre’s cattle reveals the fact that I am
eorreet in making the foregoing statement.

The first bull used was Lopez 231291. His sire
was Lord Mayor 112717, a son of Baron Laven-
der 2d, the most wonderful bull ever produced at
Linwood and imp. Lady of the Meadow, one of
the best breeding cows in the Linwood herd. His
erandsire was imp. Baron Victor, the bull that
established Cruickshank prestige in America.
The dam of Lopez was by Vanquish by Galahad
the sire of Gallant Knight, the state’s greatest
sire of prize winners, and her sire was imp. Mas-
ter of the Rolls, sire of Master of the Grove,
Ameriean Royal and International grand cham-
pions. Another bull used was Victor Chief, also
out of a Gallant Knight cow. His sire was Dicta-
tor by Norfolk, a bull said by B. O. Cowan to have
been seeond only to imp. Seottish Lord. An own
sister to Dictator, Forest Daisy 2d, was the dam
of New Year’s Delight, grand champion every-
where west of the Mississippi and junior echam-
pion at the International. Norfolk, by the way,
was by Prince Royal, son of imp. Princess Alice,
ereatest American cow of her day. Another bull
was Hampton Crown by Hampton’s Best, prob-
ably the best son of imp. Merry Hampton.

The bulls now in use are Jolly Dale and Glen-
dale, both by Maxwalton Rosedale, full brother
to Whitehall Rosedale, the grand champion bull
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all over the central West and sire of the 1919
champion, Violet Dale. Maxwalton Rosedale was
out of the same dam as Pride of Albion, Royal
grand champion. They both came from Tomson
Bros., being the best bulls of the desired age and
out of the best cows in the herd. Female addi-
tions by purchase have been few. Eight heifers
were recently bought from H. C. Stephenson and
what I have seen of Mr. Stephenson’s cattle war-
rants me in saying they are good ones. These
heifers are of choicest ancestry. Their sire, Non-
pareil Knight, was by Gallant Knight’s Heir and
their dams are by Cherry Knight by Barmpton
Knight out of Cherrybud, dam of one of Tomson
Bros.’ best prize winning heifers.

Ina letter of December, 1920, Mr. Sayre says
that Glendale is proving the best bull he ever
owned and that his 1920 calves are the best he has
ever produced. Ona ration of alfalfa and three
pounds of oats each, per day they are carrying
more flesh than any of the car lots he sent to
market carried at a corresponding time.

Mr. Sayre’s twelve-year-old son, Paul G.
Sayre, bids fair to grow into a good Shorthorn
man while working with his father in this ex-
cellent herd.

Frank H. Yeager, Bazaar.—Mr. Yeager is one
of the most prominent breeders of this section,
his herd having been established fourteen years
ago and now numbering fifty females. He is
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producing eattle for service that will give maxt-
mum results from the feed consumed and one of
the requirements is that the cows be good nulkers.
Pushing for extra development is not practiced,
but thrift and a good growth are maintained.
The result is that eattle purchased here are not
stunted, yet will respond well to good farm care.

The herd consists of choiecly bred cows. One
ot the most valuable and best is Collynie Prim-
rose and she is so royally bred that but few cows
in Ameriea could be classed as having a pedigree
as good. Her sire, imp. Collynie, has the distine-
tion of being sired by the world’s greatest pres-
ent day breeder, Win. Duthie. Collynie’s dam,
Lavender 45th, was Mr. Cruickshank’s favorite
from among all his Lavenders and her ancestors
for five generations were all bred by Cruick-
shank and were the eattle that made Scotch
Shorthorns famous the world over. Collynie
Primrose is out of Primrose 6th, one of the
smoothest, thickest, large cows in Mr. ITanna’s
herd when that herd was at its best. Primrose
6th was by imp. Inglewood, a 2500 pound show
bull at four vears old and the sire of much out-
standing stock imeluding the dam of Ingle Lad,
now famous as the sire of great producing cows
such as Lad’s FKmimia, seeond dam of the grand
ehampion, Lady Supreme. But this is not all.
Primrose 6th was out of imp. Primrose 4th by
Seottish Archer, an own sister to the cow that
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for three years produced the highest priced bull
in the Duthie sales and to Prince of Fashion,
leading show bull in Scotland. Tmention Collynie
Primrose at such length because Mr. Yeager has
several of her daughters and granddaughters
and her family is mereasing rapidly and becom-
ing a ereat part of his future herd.

There are other good females, but I shall now
call attention to the bulls Mr. Yeager has used.
Hampton, bred by Mr. Hanna, was by the 2500
pound Hampton Spray, one of the best sires used
in Kansas and sold with the herd to F. A. Gilles-
pie of Muskogee, Oklahoma. UWampton’s dam
was Golden Queen 3d by imp. Collynie and she
was out of imp. Golden Queen, one of the largest
cows of the breed. (See Hanna sketch, Part 1.)
The bulls now in use are Village Champion and
Seotchman. Village Champion is by Double
Champion, son of Choice Goods, the champion of
America for three years and out of Russella, dam
of Ruberta, the greatest heifer and cow of her
day, and for three years the undefeated female
of the American continent. Village Champion’s
dam is by imp. Invincible and his seeond dam by
imp. Hospodar. Scotchman is by Hampton and
Collynie’s Primrose, both mentioned
He is an exeellent young bull that Mr.
‘er finds it advisable to use on a part of the

OWE “OL

 

herd. Any one at all familiar with the Short-
horn history of the past will readily see that Mr.
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Yeager has in his herd, as outlined above, all the
elements necessary for success and popularity.

CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY

Chas. Casement, Sedan.—This is the largest
and most prominent herd in Chautauqua county.
The cattle are strictly a utility lot, handled to
get very good growth and development without
any disposition toward forcing. While the herd
could have been better developed without injury,
yet it has not been underfed or neglected to the
extent that deterioration has taken place, rather,
the cattle are in the best possible condition to
make profitable returns for increased attention
given them.

These cows are from desirable ancestry. Sev-
eral females by St. Valentine 12th by St. Valen-
tine were added a few years ago. The herd
represents a blending of Scotch ard Bates with a
toueh of Booth and the blood lines chosen have
been good ones. This probably came from a dis-
position to use the right kind of bulls rather than
from a study of pedigree, but as is always the
ease, good bulls come from good ancestry, so I
was not surprised to find in evidence near the
top of the pedigrees, Gwendoline’s Prinee by
imp. Prince President, Champion’s Best by Val-
ley Champion, Choice Goods, Collynie, the Vaile
bred Winsome Duke, Mr. Snodgrass’ prize win-
ning Seott Jr. and imp. Scottish Emperor that
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did service for Bellows Bros., T. O. Ford and H.
M. Hill.

Among the herd bulls used were Majestic, bred
by D. P. Norton by the Canada bred Buccaneer ;
Sedan Chief, a graudson of Collynie; Hallwood
Viscount by Choice Goods Model, a son of Rose-
dale Violet 9th and Victor Hampton by Hamp-
ton Spray. The present herd bull, Lord’s Dale,
is a big, straight, heavy fellow with a very mas-
culine appearance. While not a bull of extra fin-
ish, he is not at all rough and must be classed as
a good bull and a good breeder as his calves will
prove. He is by Mr. Lookabaugh’s Lavender
Lord and came from M. W. Babb’s herd where
he had done satisfactory service.

The article above was written in June 1919.
Since then Mr. Casement sent a cow to the
Southeast Kansas sale held at Independence
April 2, 1920 and she sold for $625 to so good a
judge as 8. M. Knox. Mr. Casement bought for
use in his herd a yearling bull, Rose Dale bred by
Park E. Salter and sired by Rosewood Dale out
of adam by Count Broadhooks 2d 36437.

M. L. Holroyd, Cedar Vale—I met Mr. Hol-
royd frequently while he was a student at the
Kansas State Agricultural College in the depart-
ment of Animal Husbandry. There was a large
Shorthorn herd on his father’s farm but the eat-
tle had not all been kept recorded. Mr. Holroyd,
now in charge of the farm, is building up a
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registered herd from the recorded ones, and ad-
ditions that will be made from time to time. Good
bulls have been used and the eattle are good.
Among recent sires was a son of Careless Oon-
queror 2d by imp. Conqueror out of imp. Blythe-
some loth. This bull was out of a dam by Violet
Chunk, a Duncan bred show bull by Headlight,
and proved an excellent sire. He was followed by
a son of Royal Gloster, well known in the Garver
herd as a high-class show and breeding bull. This
farm, destined to become the home of a real
Shorthorn herd, is one of large pastures, splen-
didly watered, and big ficlds of alfalfa,

J. M. Hamill, Grenola—Mr. Hamill has a
lierd of about thirty females which he is keeping
in the ordinary farm way and he is getting fair
development. Ie finds a market for his surplus
at moderate prices near home and, while not ob-
taming the measure of suecess which would fol-
low more careful handling and more liberal feed-
ing, he is producing a useful class of cattle and
is seeurine far better returns than he eould
secure from common stock. In addition to the
usual crosses from good bulls found in loeal
herds, Mv. Hamill’s eattle carry a cross of Forbes
Bros.’ Baron Gloster and the splendid Bates
bull, Peeulated Wild Eyes. The herd bull is by
Victor Hampton, a son of Hampton Spray.

Chas. J. Buchele, Cedar Vale—Mr. Buchele
boueht a few Shorthorns recently. One, Minnie
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Sharon by Refinery 377210, is out of Minnie 37th
bred by Abram Renick and sired by his splendid
bull, The Professor. This cow, in Mr. Stodder’s
herd, was an excellent producer of high-class
show stock. Mr. Buchele also has a daughter of
Minnie Sharon by Johu B. Potter’s Avondale
bull, Rosewood Dale, formerly much used by
Park E. Salter. Other cows of approved breed-
ing are in the little herd which is headed by Red
Warrior 612235 by Hampton 2d, a son of Hamp-
ton’s Demonstrator.

CHEYENNE COUNTY

R. K. Standish, Saint Francis.—It will doubt-
less be a surprise to many to learn that in the ex-
treme northwest corner of the state is found a
well cared for herd built from very excellent
foundation stock. Private sales have taken care
of the surplus as rapidly as it could be produeed.
A silo is to be built and a show herd started out
this season (1920) and occasional choice addi-
tions will be made by purchase. The herd now
ee May was bred by

consists of forty females.
Rapp Bros. and is by the sire of American Royal
and state fair prize winners, Gladstone, an excel-

ce

lent breeding son of

 

Wi hite a all Sultan. Victoria
Beauty 3d is by Gloster’s Favorite, a bull of the
ehoicest biarce dine, Wn 1 her dam is of the best
blood lines. Lady B. was bred by Geo. Allen and
her sire, Victor Sultan, ranks with the best of

 
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Whitehall Sultan’s sons. Her dam is Dorothy B.
bred at Browndale from the noted family of that
hame.

One of the bulls used is Palmetto Cumberland
by Roan Cumberland, a son of Cumberland’s
Last out of Pine Grove Mildred 11th. Another
is Model Type by Cumberland’s Type out of
Marengo Cumberland, a daughter of Cumber-
land’s Last out of imp. Lady Marengo. The
roan, imp. Grand Fortune, a son of imp. Modest
Princess, was also somewhat used.

My. Standish has just written me that he re-
cently purchased the massive roan calf, Supreme
827618 for $2100. This calf was well in the money
at the Nebraska State Fair last fall. His sire is
Royal Supreme by the International grand
champion, Village Supreme. His dam is from
choice ancestry, having been out of a cow by the
ehampion bull of his day, Viscount of Anoka.
This brief outline given an idea of the excellent
blood lines found in these cattle. Plans for the
future include the production of a large and
high-class herd.

CLAY COUNTY
S. B. Amcoats, Clay Center.—Mr. Ameoats
has been very active in Shorthorn circles for ten
years. His early purchases were made from M.
C. Vansell of Atchison county and later he
bought the entire I’. M. Gifford herd. The best
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of these cattle were retained and the process of
making occasional purchases with the retention
of the best has been continued until there is now
an excellent herd on the farm. In addition to
the purchases mentioned, Mr. Ameoats has
drawn on the herd of Governor Shallenberger, E.
D. Ludwig, R. T. Scott, W. A. Betteridge and
George Allen & Sons.

The array of good bulls, whose blood was
brought into the herd through the cows acquired,
includes such animals as Missie’s Sultan by
Glenbrook Sultan; Victor Sultan by Whitehall
Sultan; Godwin, son of imp. Spartan Hero and
Golden Thistle; Lord Marr by Lord Mayor out
of imp. Marigold 50th; Barmpton Knight by
Searlet Knight; Sempstress Valentine, T. P.
Babst’s bull that sold for $1000 in the era of low
prices; Lavender Viceroy, possibly the best
known son of the grand champion, Lavender Vis-
count; Baron Violet by Victor Bashful, the son
of Sweet Violet 2d, and many others that figure
at the top, not at the bottom, of the pedigrees.

Among the choice cows in the herd is Matchless
Princess by His Highness, dam by Victor Sultan,
second dam by Godwin. Her first calf by Type’s
Goods is the best thing ever calved on the farm
and tempting offers have been refused for her.
Barmpton Knight has an excellent daughter in
the herd that is a great producer. Her bulls have
gone to head good herds while her daughters
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have been retained. Butterfly Sultan by Se
cret’s Sultan is a valuable cow with several toppy
heifers to her eredit.

Secret’s Sultan that came from Bellows Bros.
was one of the best bulls used. His sire was Mis-
sie’s Sultan by Glenbrook Sultan and his dam
was by the well known Victorallan. Ilis heifers
matured into great cows and fine breeders.
Type’s Goods by Cumberland Type has been
used for more than two years. He is a low down,
large bull, good all over, but very strong in the
back and loin. Like Secret’s Sultan he is an ex-
ceptional heifer getter and a lot of yearlings by
him show a number of prospective outstanding
cows. Type’s Goods is out of a cow by Carter’s
Choice Goods, son of Choice Goods and imp.
Clara 6th by Silver Plate. Royal Marshal by
Village Marshal, an attractive white yearling
has recently been purchased from Tomson Bros.
His dam is by Victoria’s Snowflake by The
Choice of All, second dam by imp. Lord Cowslip
out of imp. Roseleaf by Scottish Archer. He is
an unusually smooth, young ae with extra
depth and he isa first-rate prospect. The outlook
for this herd is bright, for Mr. Amieoats has first
class facilities for doing good work and he has
the modern and successful type of eattle

Jacob Nelson, Broughton.*—Mvr. Nelson has
used exceptional judgment im making his

Ship on Rock Lsland or Union Pacific.
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chases and he has a herd that should take a lead-
ing position in his territory. Among the
cows are Charming Butterfly by Sir Charm-
ing 10th, dam by Baron Daybreak 292830
and her yearling heifer by Orange Dale,
a son of Whitehall Rosedale; the Bellows bred
Choice Beaty 2d by Missie’s Sultan, son of
Glenbrook Sultan and her dam by Good Choice,
with an exeellent bull calf at foot and Gipsy
Cunberland 5th bred by C. A. Saunders and
sired by Cumberland’s Best out of a dam by
Burwoced Royal, second dam by Ruberta’s Goods.
Gipsy Cumberland Sth is a very valuable breed-
ing proposition. Not only does she carry in
every cross what is best in Shorthorns, but she is
reproducing the type of her good ancestry as
may he seen in her excellent white bull calf seven
or eight mouths old. This calf won second prize
in the State Association show at Manhattan,
1920, and sold for $775.

An outstanding cow is Sweet Carmine, re-
eently purchased from the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College. She is by Barmpton Knight, the
bull that in Tomson Bros.’ herd sired outstand-
ing breeding and show stock. Her dam is by
White Goods, one of the best, if not the best, sons
of the champion, Choice Goods and her second
dam was by Lavender Viscount, C. E. Leonard’s
ereat breeding bull and International grand
champion. Other good cows of nice breeding are
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found here and it is Mr. Nelson’s intention to eull
the herd closely, adding occasionally an especial-
ly desirable female.

Imported Lawton Tommy is the herd bull. A
single glance conveys the impression that he will
be a good breeding bull and he possesses to a high
degree the qualities needed in profitable cattle.
He was used for some time by Tomson Bros., but
owing to their having several other bulls of great
excellence, they could spare him so Mr. Nelson
was able to buy him. He is by Diamond Fav-
orite 680396 bred by Alex Crombie and his dam
is by Douglas Chieftain by Collynie Marshal.
The calves by him at Tomsons show excellent
Shorthorn character.

Paul M. Borland, Clay Center.—Mr. Borland
has been in the Shorthorn business for nine years.
He bought his foundation stock of F. M. Gifford,
securing some of the T. P. Babst Butterflys well
known in Shorthorn cireles then and now. The
herd, as a whole, represents excellent breeding,
coming through such bulls as Barmpton Knight;
Golden Victor Jr.; My Lord by imp. Spartan
Hero out of imp. Lady of the Meadow, the dam
of Lord Mayor; imp. Cupbearer, American
champion; Athenian Coronet 4th by imp. Bap-
ton Coronet; Prime Minister; Clay & Winn’s
noted Golden Victor and others of like quality
that could be named. The cows are not so well
grown out as they should be but they are very
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smooth, of breedy type and good Shorthorn char-
acter, descended from excellent ancestors and
are producing good calves. The milking tenden-
cies are quite well developed in this herd. The
herd bull, Gloster Boy, was bred by 8S. B. Am-
coats. His sire is Secret’s Sultan, (see Amcoats
sketch) the son of Missie’s Sultan out of a dam
by Victorallan, the sire of so many good breeding
cows in the Bellows herd. His dam is by a son of
Captain Archer, J. F. Stodder’s bull, second
dam by Violet’s Prince by Potts & Sons’ Laven-
der King 3d. Better development of the young
stock would be all that would be necessary to
produce some really good cattle.

Warren Watts, Clay Center.—Mr. Watts
bought his start from F. M. Gifford twelve
years ago. These cows were a select lot, nearly all
sired by Cordelia’s Knight, a son of Red Knight
by Pro Barmpton the well known Cookson sire.
Cordelia’s Knight was an unusually thick, short-
legged bull that carried along with his
Scotch blood that of Cordelia’s Duke, the noted
show bull by 4th Duke of Geneva. The herd is of
correct Shorthorn type and is a profitable lot of
breeding cows, the money-making kind. Mr.
Watts has exceptional facilities for handling
eattle and should he decide to do so, he can
build up a first-class herd.

Two good bulls have been used, Newsboy by
Gallant Knight out of a dam by the Harris bred
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Laird of Linwood by Galahad and The Cardinal,
bred by Governor Shallenberger, a son of Lan-
easter Lad by Seoteh Bank and his dam by Com-
ing Star out of imp. Maud 50th. The present
herd bull is Brilhant Type by the champion,
Cumberland Type, the greatest show bull of the
deeade. His dam is by imp. Manchester, second
dam imp. Bonnie Belle. Brilliant Type is a
show bull. He has fine length, good depth, is
very straight-lined, full in all vital points, covers
well and has an elegant head and neck. He should
make a splendid individual and a suecesstful sire.

M. E. Householder, Clay Center.—Mr. House-
holder is a new man but one who has made a
good start. He has a cow from the Hunt herd at
hy Nonpareil Star, also a bull of outstanding
Blue Rapids by Wodan, the choice Regier bull
worth. Her dam is by Grand Lavender 153671
and she is exceptionally good foundation stock.
On my visit to Mr. Householder I saw a two-
year-old heifer that impressed me very favor-
ably. She is possibly an extreme beef type, but
from the view point of beefy superiority, she
evades high. She eame from the Ameoats herd.
Her sire is Mystie Victor by a good son of
Barmpton Kinight and her dam was by Lord
Mavor, a souree of Shorthorn excellence. Mr.
Householder is breeding to the Ameoats bull and
getting splendid results. This course is highly
recommended to smaller breeders.
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COFFEY COUNTY

C. H. White, Burlington.—Mr. White began
operations in 1°06 and for the last ten years he
has been one of the leading breeders in southeast
Kansas. His herd is kept elosely culled and the
visitor will find some very good Shorthorns on
this farm. Mr. White maintained a show herd
from 1911 to 1913 and exhibited successfully at
the Nebraska State Fair and at the best Kansas
fairs including Topeka, winning well in both
open and state classes. He also showed at the
American Royal with some of his entries well in
the money.

Possibly the best cow that Mr. White owns
and one that would be a eredit to any herd, is
Roan Heather. Her sire, Lord Mayor 3d, was a
high-class show bull by Lord Mayor out of Forest
Daisy, own sister to the dam of New Year’s
Delight, American Roval grand champion and
International junior champion. Roan Heather
was third in her elass at Lincoln and Topeka.
Her dam was a combination of White Goods,
Barrister and Col. Harris’ best line of breeding.
Sweet Novelette 2d is by Richelieu out of one of
the best Shorthorn cows of her day, Charm’s
Novelette by Seotland’s Charm out of a dam by
Viscount of Anoka. Richelheu was by The Choice
of All, son of Choice Goods and the famous
Rosedale Violet 9th. Since Scotland’s Charm
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put size, quality and milk into nearly everything
he sired and was by imp. Lavender Lad out of a
cow by ump. Baron Cruickshank and sinee Vis-
count of Anoka was a great sire and one of
America’s) greatest show bulls, it is easy
to see why Sweet Novelette 2d should be espe-
cially valuable.

Roan Heather and Sweet Novelette 2d are rep-
resentative in value and in quality of ancestry, of
the eows. Of the bulls, Richelieu, mentioned
above, was probably most used. Castellar 449-
834, a very rugged, deep-bodied roan, is now in
service. On lis sire’s side he carries the blood
of Snowllake, sire of Ringmaster, the only bull
ever three times International grand champion,
and that of imp. Bessie 51st, the dam of White
Goods, probably the best son of Choice Goods.
Castellar’s dam is by Vietor Sultan, a son of
Whitehall Sultan that won fame as an outstand-
ing sire in George Allen’s herd.

W. S. Bozeman, Colony.—Mr. Bozeman has
been breeding Shorthorns for nine years and at
the time of my visit his herd munbered twenty
head of breeding age. Hither the foundation pur-
chases were made with exceptional judgment
or Mr. Bozeman was unusually fortunate. At
any rate, he has a good herd and as is generally
the case, it is well loaded with the blood of real
Shorthorns. Among the aneestors found in the
top crosses are such bulls as inp. Magenta,
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Symphony’s Last, Ceremonious Archer, Mystic
Archer, imp. Chief Steward, 56th Duke of Air-
drie, imp. Collynie, imp. Inglewood, imp. Prince
President, Lavender Viscount, Spartan Iero,
Whitehall Sultan, Godwin, Good Choice and
unp. Conqueror.

The bull at the head of the herd is Chief Stew-
ard, bred by T. J. Sands. His sire is Clansman
by Snowstorm and his dam is by Lavender Viece-
voy 2d, second dam by the Norton bred Courtier
2d. [have not seen this young bull but have been
told that he is a very thick, smooth, short-legged
fellow, attractive in appearance. Mr. Bozeman
has good facilities for handling his cattle, he
seems to be full of energy and his pride in the
business speaks well for future success. If he
fails to produce a real Shorthorn herd it is be-
cause he fails to live up to his opportunities.

E. E. Heacock & Sons, Hartford.—Shorthorn
breeding which began here in 1916, has made
rapid progress. The large herd has been federal
tested and is accredited. The cows are of good
size and quite smooth and are satisfactory breed-
ers and sucklers. While this is not a herd of sky-
high prices, yet it is well bred and useful and is
making money. The management is efficient,
feeding is liberal and the young stock is well de-
veloped. The local show ring is patronized and
at least a full share of the prizes are carricd
away. The Heacocks have an excellent stock
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farm with aburdant pasture and alfalfa and a
silo furnishes sueculent winter feed. That the
Shorthorn business will continue to be carried
on successfully here seems assured for the sons
of the family are even more interested than is
Mr. Heacock himself.

Several bulls have been used more or less but
the leading one is Brawith Heir 351808. Tle was
bred by Tomsons and sired by Gallant Knieht’s
Heir, first prize bull at the Kansas State Fair
and elsewhere. His dam is Gratitude 5th by White
Goods, the great son of Choice Goods and imp.
Bessie 51st, owned by Thomas, Jameison &
Mitehell. Brawith Heir has been used in the
herd with good results. A new bull, Augusta’s
Archibald by the Anoka bred Right Stamp by
Sultan Stamp, has just been bought. Augusta’s
Arehibald is out of imp. Brandby’s Augusta 4th
and carries the prestige of most excellent an-
eestry.

C. L. Buchanan, Lebo.—Mr. Buchanan is one
of the older breeders of Coffey county, having
started with Shorthorns in 1906. A few years
ago he held a suecessful publie sale and there are
now about thirty females in the herd. The ma-
ture cows are of good size for some of the
older ones have been sold on the market and the
average weight of 1400 pounds off grass proves
the assertion. There has been no systematie ef-
fort made to keep up with the fashion in blood
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lines or to produce the highest-class cattle, but
rather to breed a lot of the practical money-
making, farmer’s sort. To do this, however, it
has required the use of pretty good bulls and
they are obtained only from good ancestry.
Among these bulls has been one sired by Prime
Minister whose dam was a full sister to the In-
ternational champion, Lavender Viscount. The
last bull used was Victor Mysie, a splendid breed-
er, as Shown in his get. This same bull also sired
the fine cows mentioned in Hall Bros.’ sketch.
(Allen county.) Aside from the sale referred to
above, the produce has been sold locally at satis-
factory prices.

Stephen C. Odell, Leroy.—Mr. Odell made his
first purchases from the J. C. Thorn sale of ex-
cellent cattle and secured some of the choice
heifers of the offering. They were sired by the
badly named but splendid breeding bull, Kaiser,
a son of the great Collynie cow, Sycamore Secret.
In their top crosses they carried the blood of
Harding, full brother to H. M. Hill’s cow, Sar-
casin, the prize winning Lord Mayor 3d and the
Choice Goods bull, Choice Prince, whose dam
was by Alice’s Prince. Three of the best cows in
the C. E. Hill sale were added a little later. The
herd bull is by Sycamore Victor, a son of
Mr. Hill’s $2000 Svcamore Secret 3d and out of
the top cow of Mr. Thorn’s sale, sold to J. H.
Holeomb of Humboldt for $505. Mr. Odell is a
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young man of splendid physique and ability that
should cnable him to build on this foundation a
herd that would be a credit to himself and a
benefit to the surrounding country.

Wi. Cronin & Sons, Burlington.—Mr. Cronin
began in a small way with Shorthorns in 1909
and in 1919 the firm was able to hold an excellent
sale of thirty-five head. The herd is of popular
breeding. Stock has been shown with success at
the Coffey county fair and it is one of the plans
for the future that showing be continued. Ter-
haps the best bull was Hall’s Cumberland, bred
by C. A. Saunders. His sire was Sce A. Cum-
berland by Cumberland’s Last and his damm was
Lady Dorothy 11th by Baron Golddust 3d. Vus-
ter Dale, a good young bull, now heads the herd.
He is by Robert Russcll’s W alnut Type and his
dain is by Glenview Dale 8d, a son of Avondate.

Ivy Allen & Sons, Burlington.—A small herd
has been kept here for ten years, but real effort
dates from 1920 when the firm added two out-
standing cows with heifer calves. More such
females and a bull to match were secured a little
later. These purchases included Janette 4th by
Choice Prince followed by Morning Star and
March Kuaight and Diamond Queen 13th, one of
the best cows in the 1920 Royal sale.

E. E. Brott, Burlington.—Mr. Brott has a few
eood cows and he is planning to inerease his
numbers and become an active breeder. Practical
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utility will be his guiding star and with a favor-
able location and bright boys who are taking a
lively interest in the Shorthorns, the way to suc-
cess is clear. These boys especially attracted my
attention because of the knowledge they had of
the cattle as well as their interest in them.

R. L. Clark, Leroy.—Mr. Clark is laying the
foundation for a good herd and aside from sceur-
ing a few nice cows he has been fortunate in
obtaining a bull that is much better than the av-
erage beginner gets. He is one of the best types
of bulls I have seen in the county and his
ancestry is such as to promise satisfactory re-
sults. Nothing more is needed than sticking to
the business and giving the cattle proper care.

J. W. Harrington, Burlington.—Mr. Harring-
ton is a new breeder who bought three useful
cows and who has a thick, short-legged bull bred
by Win. Cronin & Sons. Like many others
who own land, he realizes that cattle must be
kept on the farms and he believes a rugged
Shorthorn cow that is a good milker is the prac-
tical and profitable kind for the small farmer.

J. F. Knight, Lebo.*—This little herd consists
of purchases that are of very nice breeding from
Cc. L. Buebanan and Win. Cronin & Sons. The
Buchanan cows are by Victor Mysic, an unusual-
ly good breeding bull. The bull used is also by
Victor Mysie. Ulis dam is by a son of Andrew

 

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Pringle’s Prime Minister, a big, smooth animal
of ereat excellence and the best of breeding.

M. H. Lyon, Waverly.—Mr. Lyon has seven
attractive females and a bull. Wenaford 226317
and Beatrice 226308 are five-year-olds from C.
L. Buchanan’s herd. Their sire is the exception-
al breeding bull, Victor Mysie 345498, sire of
a number of excellent cows in Hall Bros.’
herd at Carlyle. Red Scotch, a desirable bull
from the herd of William Cronin, is in service
and is getting first-class calves.

Harry Shannon, LeRoy.—Mr. Shannon bought
three cows at the R. A. Drummond sale in Feb-
ruary 1919 and he is another of those well fa-
vored persous who can furnish his cattle every-
thing needed for their best development. The
calves that [ have seen would indicate that. at
least two of his cows are excellent breeders, a
fact which only men old in the business appreei-
ate at its full value.

CLOUD COUNTY

F. J. Colwell, Glasco.—Mr. Colwell has a herd
of thirty females above the average in size und
of good conformation. Mand 2d was sired by the
Rustler, a son of The Lad For Me, International
evand champion tn 1900, and out of Russella, the
dium of Ruberta, undefeated American cow sunid
Ditermational grand champion im 1901. The dam
of Maud 2d was by Mr. Gifford’s outstanding
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bull, Red Knight. Flora 185502 is by Marquis, a
son of Mr. Hanna’s Prince Royal, son of imp.
Collynie and imp. Princess Royal 62d and out of
a daughter of imp. Lord Cowslip. Flora’s dam
is by Gallant Knight that in Tomson’s herd was
the sire of many prize winners at the big shows.
Red Mollie is by Bariupton Model, a Tomson
bred son of Barmpton Knight, one of the best
sires ever used in the Tomson herd. Lady Wash-
ington 54th is by Barrister, a bull that during his
show yard career won 247 first prizes.

One might continue to write such facts, but
enough have been given to show the remarkable
line of ancestry in this herd. The bull in use is
well selected. He is Gainford Lancer by the
great sive, Gainford Champion, a son of imp.
Gaintord Marquis, Junior champion at the Inter-
national in 1911, later famous as a Canadian
sire, and now recognized as one of America’s
ereatest bulls. The dam of Gainford Lancer is
by imp. Jilt Victor and from an elegant line of
ancestors.

Arden Jewell, Concordia.*—Mr. Jewell’s herd
was started a few vears ago and now numbers
thirty females. They range from medium to
large and it is the owner’s intention to grow his
young stock as large as he can. With all kinds of
good grass inchiding alfalfa, with big wheat
fields and plenty of alfalfa hay, he will be

Station and telephone, Talmo

 
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enabled to come out with a herd of more than
average size. The original purchases came from
Blank Bros. & Kleen of Nebraska and from F.
C. Kingsley of Auburn. The bull being used is
Marshall’s boy 751953 by Marshall’s Choice
340687. Mr. Jewell is fortunately located near
other breeders among whom co-operation is prac-
ticed in the larger sense.

COMANCHE COUNTY

E. S. Dale, Protection.—Eastern Kansas
breeders do not usually associate a high-class
Shorthorn herd with the short grass country,
but had they observed Mr. Dale at the Salter-
Robison sale in 1920 as he bid in $400 install-
meuts on Missie’s Last up to $6000 against H. C.
Lookabaugh and then saw him buy Emblem Jr.
for his Comanche county herd for $4000 over
the bids made by Peter Ross, they might have
changed their ideas. His action is typical of the
man and is reflected in the herd of cattle he
owns. liproved methods of feeding and hand-
ling are being adopted and the second publie
sale from this herd wil be held in 1921. Loeal
shows have been patronized and good winnings
have resulted.

More than fifty females are now on the
farm. The roan six-year-old, Lovely Goods 2d,
is by that outstanding sire, Ruberta’s Goods,
whose get are among America’s most popular
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prize winners and good producing cows. Lovely
Goods’ dam is by Lady Rose of Ardmore by
Scottish Pride. Lavender Mist came from Tom-
son Bros. and is by Mystie Chief, one of the best
known sons of Barmpton Knight out of a Lord
Mayor dam. Lavender Mist’s dam is by Archer,
the splendid son of imp. Collynie and imp. Circe
3d.

Several different bulls have been used. Col-
lynie Lad combined the blood of Prince of Col-
lynie, imp. Collynie and Royal Knight; Mari-
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BULL EVER BRED AND SOLD IN KANSAS —.
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Barmpton Knight and imp. Marigold 50th.
Roan Monarch was bred by IL. TL Horbes and
was by Royal Monarch out of Sweet Orange.
(See Forbes sketch.) Butterfly Royalist, now
in service, 18 by imp. Butterfly Duke out of imp.
Lady Marion 2d.) In the purchase of Emblem
Jv. for $4000 Mr. Dale secured what will prob-
ably be his best investment, for the bull is even
better than his pictuve shows him. His sire, imp.
British Emblem, was one of the most promising
young bulls in the entire country and his dam
is a cow of great excellence by Prince Valentine
4th, one of the best sires in kansas.

COWLEY COUNTY

Fred Abildgaard, Winfield.—When I first
met Mr. Abildgaard I made up my mind that
here was a man who would become a real Short-
horn breeder. A few hours conversation with
hum later, confirmed this opinion and when I
reached his home, looked over the cattle, ob-
served his methods and listened to his state-
ments, I knew that Mr. Abilgaard was already a
real breeder. Ife has an additional enarantee of
success In his sons who take a very active inter-
est in the Shorthorns and who are giving them
personal attention not offen given except by pro-
fessional herdsmen. he results of such eare
and attention are apparent.

Mr. Abildgaard is no novice in the business. A
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few years ago he was owner of a herd in northern
Missouri, which was sold to Bellows Bros. and
some of these cattle brought high prices in their
sales and sinee then have been resold at from
$2000 to 4000. Three vears avo Mr. Abildgaard
located near Winfield.

There ave teu cows in the herd, all reds, al
three to four years old, all goed ones and as ma-
tured cows they should be a grand lot. Eight of
them are sired by Athene’s Scotchman, a splen-
did bull of H. F. Brown’s breeding, one is by
Rosewoed Dale and one by a son of Maxwalton
Renown. Each of these cows either has a calf
at foot or will calve shortly. It is needless to say
that they carry the blood of excellent Shorthorn
sires. They are being bred to a white bull and
elegant calves, all rears, are the result.

This bull, Villager Magnet, is worthy of atten-
tion. He is about five vears old, a son of Village
Faney 417901 out of a cow by imp. Mutineer that
sold in Bellows Bros.’ 1917 sale for $1750. In
lookivg over my notes I find this entry in regard
to Villager Magnet :‘Can’t say anything too good
about this bull ard his calves.’’ He is the big,
deep, thick kind and a wonderful breeder. He
might stand a little closer to the ground but he
is so massive and has such good Shorthorn ehar-
acter that he ean not fairly be subjected to ser-
ious criticism, especially when his two-year-old
heifers are under inspection.
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While this herd is splendidly developed along
beef producing lines, special attention is being
paid to milk development. Al] the cows are far
above the average as milkers and Villager Mag-
net, the herd bull, is from heavy milking ances-
try of the best Scotch type, his dam having given
six gallons of milk per day.

Ina general way, Mr. Abildgaard handles his
cattle for best results without overcrowding. The
herd receives liberal care and the young stock
is grown and developed to reach what the merit
of its good ancestry makes possible. It is evi-
dent that the cost per day does not enter into the
caleulation so much as does the result to be ob-
tained and the ultimate profit to be derived from
intelligent care and feeding. Mr. Abildgaard’s
location on an ideal stock farm and the eo-oper-
ation of such boys as his sons, assures for his
cattle a leading place among Kansas herds.

Sinee the article above was written, Mr. Abild-
gaard has purchased J. E. Paton’s excellent
herd. This ineludes two cows of outstanding
merit. One comes from the Kansas State Agri-
eultural College and is by that great sire, Mateh-
less Dale. The other comes from C. E. Leonard
and represents the very best of the aneestry
for which that herd is famous. He has also
bought a splendid producing daughter of Cap-
tain Archer out of a Bellows bred Cruickshank
Columbia cow and two Stunkel bred Star Goods
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Victor Orange cows. The acquisition of these
cows, together with the stock already on hand,
gives Mr. Abildgaard one of the choice herds of
southern Kansas.

J. E. Paton, Winfield.—Mr. Paton has dem-
onstrated his ability as a suecessful breeder and
handler of Shorthorns as few young men of my
acquaintance have done, for nowhere in my
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VELVET TYPE

results from a herd that did he. The stock on
Shady Brook farm at present consists of only
five high-class females and the herd bull. Em-
erald’s Choice is a big red, bred by C. E.
Leonard & Son. Her sire, Rosedale’s Choice is
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one of the three noted sons of the cham-
pion, Choiee Goods out of the famous
Rosedale Violet 9th. Her dam is imp. Emerald
4th from Wim. Norie’s herd and sired by Wrang-
ler, son of Mr. Duthic’s greatest bull, Scottish
Archer. Silver Lavender is a promising daugh-
ter of Cumberland Star 703360 out of a Leonard
bred daughter of Wooddale Stamp, one of the
best known sons of the Choice of All. This heifer,
Judged by her ancestry aid her merit, should de-
velop into a magnificent cow. The herd bull is
Velvet Type, a prize winner at the Kansas Na-
ational and a bull of such quality as is seldom
found at the head of a small herd. His sire is
Nareissus Type, the Cumberland’s Type bull
used at the Kansas State Agricultural College,
and his dam is Golden Lavender 4th by Wood-
dale Stamp out of a cow by Marengo’s Viscount.

Chas. M. Baird, Arkansas City.—Mr. Baird
has the large herd of Cowley county and it is a
good, useful one, where cattle are kept in a nat-
ural way, reaching normal development and re-
sponding well to care and attention. The cows
represent a desirable line of ancestry, well bred
bulls have been used ever since breeding opera-
tions were begun. The herd is deseended from
such sires as Golden Vietor Jr, used for a num-
her of years by H. M. Hill; Seott Jr., loeally fa-
mous asa show bull in the Butler county herd of
W. J. Snodgrass; Galahad, Col. Harris’ bull and
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many other good ones that might be mentioned.
At no time has any effort been made to use spec-
lal blood lines, Mr. Baird demanding size and
true Shorthorn character rather than certain
kinds of breeding. He has had local demand for
the bulls and the females have so far been re-
tained in the herd. There are now on the farm a
lot of heifers sired by Marshall’s Best, a son of
the Hanna bred Scottish Chief and to mate with
these, the massive roan bull, Silverheel, has been
purchased. He is by Silvermine, well known in
Stodder’s and Marshall Bros.’ herds. He is a
good one from end to end and he should be a val-
uable breeding bull. Mr. Baird is one of the
state’s heavy farmers, progressive and up to date
in every way, and the Shorthorns produced here
will be satisfactory to purchasers.

J. A. Fasken & Son, Atlanta.—J. A. Fasken &
Son have a splendid tract of land on which to
handle cattle. They began breeding in Morris
county about fourteen years ago, going to Cow-
ley county seven years ago. The present herd
was founded by purchases from David Ballan-
tyne & Sous of Herington and those who knew
the Ballantyne herd know there was a rare
opportunity to select foundation stock. Five of
the cows secured were by Collynie Pride, a splen-
did Hanna bred son of Collynie, that had for
dam one of the excellent cows coming from
Elbert & Fall, and four were by Marshall
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Abbotsburn 3d whose sire was out of Mary
Abbotsburn 7th, the unrivaled cow of her day.

A splendid bull was secured from 8. D. Mitch-
ell, a son of White Goods, dam by 47th Duke of
Airdrie. (See Mitchell sketch.) Another one
was by Captain Lovely out of a dam by Mr.
Stodder’s great Captain Archer. The present
herd bull is a massive roan by Mr. Hanna’s
Hampton Spray out of Golden Queen 38d by imp.
Collyniec, second dam, imp. Golden Queen. (See
S. ©. Hanna history.) This is a very desirable
Hull and those who lke the big, beefy, deep, thick
kind could not help liking lim. A promising
yearling bull, recently bought from EK. L. Stun-
kel, will also be tried. Ife is by Cumberland
Diamond, dam by Star Goods, second dam by
Victor Orange.

J. W. Sickles & Sons, Winfield.—Substantial
care is being given the good sized herd of Short-
horns on this farm but they are not beimg pushed
for extra development. The appearanee of the
calves speaks well for the cows as producers. I
was impressed with the fact that the Sickles have
ample facilities for handling their eattle and that
it would probably be only a question of time un-
til their ambition would lead them to put up a
high-class herd. The material they have on
hand is good enough, if mated with the right
kind of bulls and developed rightly, to produce
such results.
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In common with all the cattle of this territory,
the blood of imp. Collynie is found strongly in-
fused in the top crosses, also that of Prince of
Collynic, imp. Scotchman and 47th Duke of Air-
dvie, three bulls that figure prominently in many
of the cattle coming from H. M. Hill’s herd.
From the Stedder herd, located near by, came
the blood of the noted sire, Captain Archer. Mr.
Palmer’s Commander; the Bellows bred Cham-
pion’s Best; the well known Valley Champion;
Scott Jr, an outstanding show and breeding bull ;
Dr. Primrose, the great son of Baron Victor
owned by Wilhams Bros. and others of like qual-
ity are much in evidence. With good sized, strong
females of such ancestry and a high-elass bull
which the Sickles intend to secure, the task of
producing real Shorthorns will not be diffieult.

CRAWFORD COUNTY

Theo. Jagels, Hepler.—This is a = substan-
tial herd founded in 1916 to which some out-
standing females, that could not fail to attract
general and favorable attention, have recently
been added. Mr. Jagels has the practical utility
idea firmly fixed in his mind and the eattle T
have seen that went into his herd convince me
that here will be an establishment that will tuin
out a splendid class of best money making Short-
horns.

Three of the ehoicest heifers in Col. Bureess’
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sale at Fort Scott in June 1920 fell to Mr. Jagels’
bidding. Village Butterfly and Rosebud’s Goods
9th are both low down, thick, beautiful speci-
mens of the breed and show anunals of the best
type. The first is by Brawith Villager by imp.
Villager and her dam is by imp. Mutineer out of
a cow by the Duthie bred imp. Royal Fancy. The
other is by Golden King, a son of Mr. McDer-
mott’s famous Cumberland Marshal out of a
Fair Goods cow. Her dain is by a son of Morn-
ing Star out of a granddaughter of Carter’s
Choice Goods. Banff’s Cecelia, while not of such
pronounced show yard type, is a big, smooth two-
year-old that promises to become a valuable
breeding cow. Her sire is by an execllent son of
inp. Lord Banff, the first Seotch bull to sell for
more than $5000.

A herd bull worthy of such females is found
in Barmpton’s Villager. His sire is Mina’s
Avon Villager, a son of Village Flash out of
Maxwalton Mina 9th by Maxwalton Renown out
of an Avondale cow. His dam is by the Norton
bred Crown Prince, an outstanding and well
known sire used by A. O. Stanley, and the rest of
the pedigree is of the best and most popular
blood lines of the breed. With Mr. Jagels’
judement and determination to produce the best,
his suecess ean not be doubted.

H. I. Gaddis, McCune.—I have seen quite a
number of Shorthorns from Mr. Gaddis’ herd
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at different sales and they were all good ones. A
recent visit to the farm has added to the favor-
able impression I held of the cattle and of Mr.
Gaddis himself. There are more than fifty fe-
males on the farm. They are of medium size,
both extremes being well avoided. They are an
unusually neat lot of cows with good heads and
necks, feminine, yet not delicate, in appearance,
the class of females that experienced breeders
would select as profitable producers. Bulls sold
from this herd have proved these assertions in
several instances by winning in state fair con-
tests. Mr. Gaddis has been a contributor to
the Central Sale at Kansas City, the Kansas
National at Wichita and the Southeast Kansas
both at Coffeyville and Independence and his of-
fering is always well received. The herd was
founded in 1898 by his father and himself and he
has been sole owner for a dozen years.

Sultan’s Queen by Red Sultan is one of the
best cows. Her sive is by Village Sultan, a son
of Whitehall Sultan out of imp. Village Maid
30th. Her dam is Village Cup 3d. Rosebud Sth
is by Orange Model, one of the most favorably
known sives in the West and her dam is by Lay-
ender Viceroy by the International grand chain-
pion, Lavender Viscount. A large part of the
Gaddis herd is of similar breeding and most of
the herd is of the most popular blood lines
throughout.
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It would hardly be practical to mention in de-
tailall the bulls that have been used. Among the
valuable ones was Scottish Viceroy. He was by
Lavender Vieeroy, mentioned above, and out of
Pride of Orchard Farm B 15th by Secret
Barmpton. This line of breeding is now very
popular in the herds of W. A. Betteridge and
Bellows Bros. Seottish Viceroy was directly
descended from some of America’s best Short-
horns including Lavender Viscount, Baron
Lavender 2d and imp. Baron Victor. Choice
Collynie, used with success, represented on his
sire’s side imp. Collynie and Choice Goods. He
was out of the excellent eow Wistful (see H. M.
Hill sketch) giving him another cross to Collyme
and through Royal Knight to imp. Princess
Alice, one of the country’s greatest cows. Secret
Baron, used until reeently, was by Snowstorm,
the best known western son of Snowflake, sire of
Ringmaster, three times International erand
champion. Secret Baron sired a splendid lot of
stock and he was perhaps the best known of the
Gaddis bulls. The bull now used is Challenger’s
Knight by Dale’s Challenger by Double Dale,
one of the most noted of Avondale’s sons. His
dam is White Marigold by imp. Crescent Knight
out of imp. Seoteh Marigold. Ife is a good vounge
bull from the very choicest ancestry.

E. L. Holstine, Girard.—Mr. Holstine’s early

purchases meluided an exeellent daughter of
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 327

Baron Marr, one of the best sons of Cumber-
land’s Last. For several years Lord Hampton
by Haimpton’s Challeneer 287618 was used with
satisfactory results. In 1915 Mr. Holstine
bought the bull that proved an outstanding
sive. Hampton Primrose by Hampton Spray out
of Primrose 6th, one of the best cows in Mr.
Hanna’s herd, has been used by him for five
years and the herd now consists largely of his
daughters. I have seen many of Tlampton Prim-
rose’s calves and all were good ones. His dam
was by imp. Inglewood and his second dam was
unp. Primrose 4th bred by My. Duthie and sired
by Seottish Archer, Mr. Duthie’s greatest bull.
This herd of young cows by such a sire should
prove very valuable. Roan Robin, a young bull
of excellent type and quality, is now inuse. His
ancestry on both sides is of the best.

Adam H. Andrew, Girard.—Myr. Andrew has
been with Shorthorns all his life and since 1895
he has been breeding on his own account. <A sue-
cessful sale was held in 1914. It is planned to
make an oceasional addition by purchase and to
exhibit at the county fair. The cows are of very
popular breeding and are medium in size with
deep bodies set on short legs. They are main-
tained in thrifty condition on the ordinary farm
feeds. The herd has always been kept closely
eulled. Such bulls as the Kellerman bred 8th
Prince of Vinewood; Mayor of Valley View by
. 328 A UISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Lord Mayor and the well known sire, Orange
Major have been used. Hdgewood’s Stamp by
Clara’s Choice is now in service. Mr. Andrew
has recently added to his herd an elegant, big,
red cow by that great sire, March Knight. Such
cows are not usually found in small herds and her
value can not be estimated.

DICKINSON COUNTY

C. W. Taylor, Abilene.*—It is a farm worth
looking over that furnishes the home for the
Taylor Shorthorns. Several large houses and
large barns and sheds provide shelter for men
and annnals required in carrying on operations
on this tract of 1760 acres of exeecllent, tillable
land. Everything is done on a big seale on this
farm. Just now the herd is comparatively small
—between 100 and 200 head—having been re-
duced temporarily in order that more wheat
could be raised. Its normal size is from 200 to
300 head. Everything indoors and out is under
the immediate supervision of William Harvey
and his estimable wife, who came from Scotland
some ten years ago to take charge of this big
farm. The proprictor devotes much time and
thought to the business and every minute spent
with him reveals the wide awake man of big af-
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Union Pacifie or Rock Tsland.
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Mr. Taylor has followed the plan of having
herd bulls and females of true Shorthorn type
and usefulness. The cattle have been kept on a
reasonable amount of feed and not pushed for
more than good development, the theory being
that the customers were not heavy feeders and
that the output would give better satisfaction in
the long run than if developed to a point beyond
that maintained by the man into whose hands
they would fall; and that if the purchaser cared
to feed more heavily the product of this farm
would respond to such a system. Local and west-
ern trade have taken the surplus at satisfactory
prices and at no time in recent years has there
been a lack of customers. The Shorthorns are
paying well and giving general satisfaction to
the buyers, which is as high a compliment as can
be paid any establishment.

The herd was founded with eight cows from
Col. Harris’ Linwood herd. These, of course,
were of execHent ancestry. With them came the
bull, Vandal, bred and used by Col. Harris. Few
female additions have been made but those
bought have been carefully selected. One of them
is Lassie 79626 by Senator bred by Col. Harris
and sired by Godwin, the excelent son of imp.
Spartan Hero and imp. Golden Thistle. Sen-
ator’s dam was 20th Linwood Victoria by Gala-
had. The dam of Lassie was Lula Lancaster by
Barmpton Bud 152945. Roan Seraphina was
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one of the cows purehased earlier. Her dam
came from Linwood and her sire was Golden
hKoneht, the son of np. Craven Knight and Nor-
ton’s Golden Drop, that was used so freely by
Col. Harris. Seraphina’s dam was by Galahad,
sire of Gallant Knight. This gives an idea of the
quality of the cow foundation,

As before stated, Vandal was the first bull
used. One of the next was Lafitte by Royal
Kanieht, one of the best bulls of the breed used by
Col. Harris and later by Mr. Hanna. Bold
night came from Tomsons and was by Gallant
hKoneht, the bull that made the Tomson herd one
of national importance. Lis dam was by imp.
Thistle Top. (See Tomson sketch.) THeadlight
2d was bred by Joseph Dunean and was by
Knight of Meadow Farm 3d out of the Harris
bred Starheht by Galahad. Valiant was bred by
Tomsons and was by St. Clair, a son of imp.
Crescent Knight, out of imp. Clara 59th. Mar-
engo’s Pearl, a bull much used, came from C. FE.
Leonard. Ie was by Marengo’s Choice, one of
the best of later day Ravenswood sires.

Two bulls are now dome service. Village Heir

‘comes from Uppermill and is a son of the great
Villager and Ins dam is Rosetta Grassland 2d, a
daughter of tap. Conqueror out of imp. Rosetta
2th. Vietor Dale is by Maxwalton Rosedale,
well known sire in the Pringle and Tomson
herds. This gives these bulls close connection
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with the best Shorthorn breeding in America.

There is inuch to recommend the general
pohey of Shorthorn production as practiced by
My. Taylor. Securing fair development on ordin-
ary farm feeds is the ideal way of producing
cattle aud stock so produced is always responsive
to increased feed. The success of Mr. Taylor’s
establishment has rested and will continue to
rest on the satisfaction given by its output.

T. A. Ballantyne, Herington.—For nearly
forty years David Ballantyne raised an excellent
class of Shorthorus and his son, T. A. Ballan-
tye, is his successor in the business. The Ballan-
tyne cattle were first of all practical and useful
for the old Scotchman had enough of the sound
sense with which Scotch breeders are credited to
avoid anything that would not pay its way and
put money into his pocket. His was the method
of procedure which, ignoring all minor consider-
ations, demanded a good animal.

The twenty females with which T. A. Ballan-
tyne began in 1917 were the more desirable of the
young animals in this herd. Most of them
were by Choice Orange descended through a line
of bulls coming from goed herds and having had
the best of care. They represent on the side of
both sire and dam the werk of the real breeder.
Mention is made of a few to give an idea of the
blocd lines. Fancy 2d is by Choice Orange brec
by E. L. Stunkel. The sire of Choice Orange was
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the Bellows bred Star Goods, own brother to the
champion, Diamond Goods. His dam was by
Victor Orange, referred to in these sketches, a
sire of outstanding merit. The dam of Fancy
2d is by Wooddale Chieftain, one of the best sons
of Mr. Gentry’s Choice of All. Her second dam
was by Marshall Abbotsburn 3d, one of the most
highly prized bulls used in the herd. Another
Choice Orange cow is Golden Lady 4th out of a
cow by Director, a son of Gallant Knight out of a
Godwin cow. Her second dam was by Marshall
Abbotsburn 3d. A third daughter of Choice Or-
ange is Miss mma 5th out of Miss Emma 2d by
the International grand champion, Master of the
Grove. Miss Emina 2d was one of the few addi-
tions the elder Mr. Ballantyne made to the herd.
It was a two-year-old heifer from this herd, by
Wooddale Chieftain out of a Pride of Collynie
dam, that stood first in elass at the big Central
Show at Kansas City in 1918. Pride of Collynie
was by imp. Collynie out of a dam by Royal
Jonght and he was one of the best bulls used.
The student of Shorthorns will recognize in
this outline a herd of cows with ancestry of the
most desirable kind. The herd bull is a worthy
animal Roan Model 528012 as IT saw him in
1919 was one of the best, big bulls Thad seen. He
weighed more than 2100 pounds at thirty-six
months and he had splendid finish and quality.
Tn pasture condition he would have made quite a
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good show. He comes from G. A. Betteridge and
is of the regulation excellent breeding of that
herd.

Few young men breeding Shorthorns in Kan-
sas have begun business under more favorable
conditions than Mr. Ballantyne who grew up
with cattle and can not remember the time he was
not identified with the work of a superior Short-
horn herd.

E. P. Flanagan, Chapman.—Mr. Flanagan he-
longs in the class of breeders that should be more
generally known. He has evidently been keep-
ing quiet about his cattle but the quality of those
I have seen from his herd would justify more
publicity. He made a nice little exhibit at Wich-
ita in 1920 and his herd bull, Sultan’s Pride,
stood third in aged class, which is quite a compli-
ment to any new exhibitor.

Audrey’s Princess is one of Mr. Flanagan’s
best cows. Her sire is by Choice Goods Model,
one of the well known bulls of his day, a son of
Choice Goods and Rosedale Violet 9th, the
greatest breeding cow in the Tebo Lawn herd.
Rosedale Violet 9th was dam of The Choice of
All, Rosedale’s Choice and Runaway Girl, the
dam of Bellows Bros.’ Best of Goods. Another
cow by the same sire is Janet’s Princess. Her
dam is by the Dryden bred Golden Prince by
Prince Gloster, sire of the $10000 Prince In-
perial and her second dam was a daughter of
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Golden Knight and comes from the Warris herd.

The herd consists of about sixty females with
two bulls in service, Sultan’s Pride, mentioned
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is strong in the blood and characteristics of
Whitehall Sultan. Je is an unusually even,
well developed bull from end to end and stands
close to the ground. Asa sire he is giving such
satisfaction that Mr. Flanagan expects to use
him for at least two more years in order to get
more cows by him. Linwood Topsman was bred
by Forbes & Son of ILenry, Illinois. He has
plenty of size and is very true in his lines and
smoothly covered. Tis sire is Selection’s Gold
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951519 by Seleetion, grand champion at the In-
ternational in 1909, His dam is by Seottish Con-
sul 181231, son of imp. Consul and imp. Violet
od, second dam by imp. Golden Fame out of imp.
Scottish Ringlet. Mr. Flanagan seems to be a
good care-taker and there is nothing in sight to
interfere with success.

J. H. Taylor & Sons, Chapman.*—M1. Taylor
began the Shorthorn business when he boueht
four cows and a bull of A. H. Lackey & Son in
1885. Two years ago he purchased nine desir-
able heifers. One of his best cows is Ruth 3d by
Marengo’s Pearl 391962 by Marengo’s Choice,
the splendid son of Rosedale’s Choice and imp.
Marcngo’s Lavender Countess. Another one
by Marengo’s Pearl is Goldie 532001. Her
dam is by Silvery Knight by Gallant Kimeht out
of a cow by Strathallan Chief.

The herd has had the benefit of the use of
good bulls. Students of Shorthorn history will
recall Baron Lavender 2d as one of the most
wonderful bulls ever produced in America, and
Emma 5th as the famous twin with Emma 4th in
the Potts show herd. Lord Lovell, a calf from
these two celebrities, was one of the Taylor
herd bulls. Golden Knight, the famous old sive
used by Col. Harris, was one of the earlier bulls
purchased by the Taylors. Marshal Goods by

 

Telephone and railroad station, Pearl. Ship on Rock Island or
Union Pacifie.
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Star Goods and out of the outstanding cow, Miss
Belle, was another. Baron Butterfly 2d from
the herd of H. I. Gaddis, is now in service.
His sire, Snowstorm, is by Snowflake, sire of
Ringmaster, the only bull ever awarded three In-
ternational grand championships. His dam is by
Seottish Viceroy by Lavender Viceroy, the best
known son of the International grand champion,
Lavender Viscount.

William Woodson, Chapman.—Mr. Woodson
is a Shorthorn beginner. He has four females all
nicely bred. Birdie Gloster 8d is by Baron’s
Pride, one of R. E. Owen’s Queen of Beauty
bulls. Her dam is by The Cherub by imp. Prince
Oderick. Sultan’s Pride Jr. heads the herd. The
voung stock is being well cared for, and it is the
intention to keep the heifers. Ma. Woodson has
two sons, Wilfred L. and Edgar W. who are
growing into Shorthorn men.

DONIPHAN COUNTY

T. J. Dawe & Son, Troy and Hiawatha.—No
herd in northeast Kansas is better known than
that of T. J. Dawe & Son. It has been shown at
the state fans of this section, winning its share
of honors, and liberal expenditures have been
made for breeding stock from some of the best
sources in the country. The herd is being kept
in excelent condition and visitors always find
the eattle looking well. The elder Mr. Dawe
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hegan breeding forty vears ago but not until 1910
did the firm buy really high-class stock. In 1911
the Dawes began showing, exhibiting at both
Kansas state fairs and at St. Joseph, Missouri.

In the space allotted T can not tell of all the
good cows. The three-vear-old Last Rose comes
from H. H. Kupper. She is by imp. Seottish
Sentinel ont of a daughter of imp. Strowan Star,
second dain by Baron Kear 2d. An outstanding
cow is the roan, Maxwalton Lavender 2d by
Avondale and out of imp. Lavender Bloom by
Silver Plate, second dam by Roan Robin. This
cow is a full sister to the famous Carpenter &
Ross sire, Maxwalton Renown. In the herd isa
daughter of Maxwalton Lavender 2d by Max-
walton Revolution, that is very promising and
representing, as she does, an extreme concentra-
tion of Avondale blood, she may prove exception-
ally valuable. Villager’s Baron 4th by imp. Vil-
lager out of a daughter of imp. Evening Baron-
ess, carries near the top the blood of imp. Cup-
bearer, America’s champion bull. Wayside Lav-
ender is by Maxwalton Revolution out of a dam
by Avondale. A typical Ruberta’s Goods heifer
of the best type is the four-year-old Nonpareil E.
that proved herself a fine breeder. Miss Rams-
den 6th by Baron Pride 275479 is not only a good
cow but she raised and suckled a calf geood
enough to be well in the money at the Missouri
State Fair in 1919. This ealf was sold to M. R.
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Peterson, Mr. Dawe’s neighbor. Sobriety 8th
by imp. Strowan Star out of imp. Sobriety 2d is
the dam of two heifers that were in the 1919
show herd and were winners. She has pro-
dueed and raised five calves within considerably
less than five years. Autumn Queen Star is an
elegant four-year-old. She is by imp. Scottish
Sentinel out of a dam by imp. Strowan Star.
Her ealf, an exeellent prospect, was in the show
herd in 1919. The old herd bull, sire of much of
the good young stock on the farm and winner of
many prizes, died recently. He was Diamond
Emblem, a son of Diamond Goods and the noted
breeding cow E:mily by imp. Collynie. He was
the highest priced bull in the Bellows sale of his
year and was one of the smoothest aged sires on
the show cireuit. The herd bull of the future is
the white two-year-old, Rosewood Pride, bred by
Carpenter & Carpenter. Asked for a description
of this bull Mr. Dawe said ‘‘He is the right
kind’?

A. A. Hoverson, Moray.—Mr. Hoverson has
been breeding Shorthorns for fourteen years and
he now has a large herd of good cows. His orig-
inal purchases and a few subsequent ones were
made from such herds as that of T. J. Sands,
Robinson, T. J. Dawe & Son, Troy, D. P. Ricke-
baugh, Sheridan, Missouri, E. C. Holland of
Iowa and E. D. Ludwig of Sabetha. They were
by bulls such as Morniig Star; Topsman by
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Red Cup, son of imp. Cupbearer, the grand
champion of America for several years; imp.
Master of the Mint and others of the same class.

Amore the bulls used was Bashful Conqueror
2d, bred by T. J. Wornall & Son. His sire was
imp. Conqueror and his dam, Bashful Sth by
Prince President 2d, second dam Bashful 4th
by Knight of the Thistle out of imp. Bashful 2d.
Baron Blythesome, another herd bull was by a
son of imp. Blythesome 27th. His dam was a Me-
Dermott bred cow by Senator, a son of imp.
Fashion’s Favorite and imp. Augusta Bruce, sec-
ond dam by imp. Craibstone. This bull was used
for six years, proving an execptional breeder
and a eveat factor in building up the herd. The
two bulls now in serviee are Silver Star and
Barmpton Butterfly. Silver Star bred by H. 8.
& W. B. Dunean was by Cumberland Again 370-
944 out of Sunlight 10th by Banker’s Victor, the
well known Norton sire. This isa big fellow and
Mr. Hoverson is well pleased with him. The oth-
er, Barmpton Butterfly, is by a son of Missie’s
Sultan out of a dam by Hampton’s Best. His
dam is by Acanthus King by Godwin. He is a
big, heavy, smooth bull and very satisfactory in
service.

Mr. Hoverson has a detinite object in view and
is working consistently toward that end, his ob-
ject being to produce with regularity a class of
eood, useful cattle of medium size and good
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feeding quality which will enable them to do well
onordinary farm feeds. He avoids any extremes
such as pushing or starvation and finds his busi-
ness profitable. The cows, as [ saw them, indi-
cated the degree of development as outlined by
Mr. Hoverson and they have every appearance
of practical utility.

M. R. Peterson, Troy.—Mr. Peterson has been
in the business only two years but he has a nice
herd of females of splendid conformation and
good blood lines, some of which would satisfy
any one. Countess Gloster 6th comes from 8. B.
Ameoats. She is by Seeret’s Sultan, a son of
Bellows Bros.’ Missie’s Sultan out of a dam by
Lord Marr, a son of Lord Mayor and imp.
Marigold 50th, second dam by imp. Prince Oder-
ick. Countess Gloster 6th is a splendid breeder.
Another daughter of Seeret’s Sultan is Secret of
Cedar Lawn by Baron Violet by Victor Bashful,
a son of the noted cow, Sweet Violet 2d. This cow
is the dam of two fine heifers, one a last Septem-
ber’s ealf that could show in strong. class.
Hampton’s Emblem by Diamond Emblem, dam
by Hampton’s First, a son of Ilampton’s Best
is a typical Diamond Emblem heifer. She is
big, thick and smooth and has a splendid calf
at foot. The dam of this heifer is one of the
extra good ones. She has a bull ealf that is hard
to beat, that, lightly fitted for show, was a winner
at the big Free Fair at Topeka in 1919. Besides
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the cows mentioned above, there are other good
ones. Three of them are by Goods, a Gigstad
bred son of Golden Lancaster, out of a dam by
Good Choice. Thomas, Jameison & Mitchell’s
great bull, White Goods, comes in through a cow
sired by one of his sons, Roan Goods, while
Searchlight is represented in Redbud Lady.

Orange Count 716175, the sive of excellent
valves, has been used, combining DBarmpton
Knight and Lord Marr. A new herd bull has
been secured from T. J. Dawe & Son, the ex-
cellent rean calf in them present show herd,
a winner at the Missouri State Fair. He is a
big-bodied, good-quartered, thick-fleshed, smooth
fellow and is a splendid prospect for a breeding
bull. His sive is Diamond Emblem and lis dam
is Miss Ramsden 6th by Baron’s Pride 275479,
second dam by tmp. Red Velvet out of inp.
Marietta,

J. F. Libel & Son, Leona.—This is a compar-
atively new firm working on a small scale but
with a splendid start for a choice herd. At D. E.
Reber’s sale they bought the cow, Edna, by
Scotchman by Royal Pride 149651, a son of imp.
Helen 20th and several of her descendants are in
the herd. There are a few heifers by Vain Val-
entine, a son of Bapton Valentine out of Park
Violet 5th and out of dains by imp. Conqueror, A
cow that is making good is Marvel by The Con-
queror out of Lavender Rose (vol. 51) by the
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J. G. Robbins & Son bull, Golden Dutchman.

One of the bulls used was Magnet Searchlight
by Searchlight out of a cow by Prince Pavonia,
the two bulls that established C. 8. Nevius as a
breeder. The second dam of Magnet Searchlight
came through imp. Golden Gem 2d and Lord
Lovel. The present herd bull is an excellent one,
New Year’s Emblem, bred by T. J. Dawe & Son,
by Diamond Emblem, their show bull by Dia-
mond Goods out of a dam by imp. Collynie. New
Year’s Emblem’s dam is Sobriety 8th by imp.
Strowan Star out of imp. Sobriety 2d. (See
Dawe sketch.) This bull is not only a good in-
dividual but it will be noted he is of great an-
cestry and he is proving a tine breeder.

The Libel herd, as a whole, impressed me
very favorably, not only as consisting of a lot of
valuable cattle, but also because surrounding
conditions indicated almost certain success.

E. A. Myers, Troy.—Both Mr. and Mrs. Myers
know good Shorthorns and a visit with them econ-
vinced me that they understood how to handle
their cattle. Mrs. Myers is a daughter of T. J.
Dawe and is as much interested in Shorthorus as
any other member of the Dawe family. The
start was made two years ago by the purchase of
five desirable cows from the Dawe herd and they
now have fifteen females. Autumn Queen Rose
is by imp. Strowan Star out of Autumn Queen
by Baron Kear 24 and comes from H. H.
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Jkupper. Lily 2d is by Dale Clarion, now win-
ning fame as a sire of show stock. Fair Mvsie
is by Fair Knight 2d by Choice Knight. Sobri-
ety Bess is by imp. &: -ottish Sentinel out of So-
briety 8th and Mysie Treasure is by Master
Mysie Sultan.

The reader is asked to consider this sketeh in
connection with the T. J. Dawe & Son sketch and
thus see clearly the excellent bloed lines these
cows represent. The cows bought had calves at
foot by the Dawe show bull, Diamond Emblem.
As he was used as long as he lived, practically all
the young stock is sired by him. The Myers herd,
as I saw it, was altogether excellent and all con-
ditions favoring judicious development were be-
ing well met. Rosewoed Pride, the present Dawe
herd bull, regarded as an outstanding animal, is
being used and should maintain high quality in
the Myers herd.

DOUGLAS COUNTY

Willis R. Colman, Lawrence.—At Mr. Col-
man’s I found a number of excellent females and
a very superior bull, for Mr. Colman is an ex-
ample of the rare individual who received far
more in a purchase fan he knew, or expected to
receive. He had a few good Shorthorns and, be-
ing in need of a new bull, he bought of G. F.
Brown who was selling his cattle, the berd bull,

3
Marquis Cumbe land: S88134, and a red cow,
Bd \ HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Cainbay 662-H, the latter bred to the bull men-
tioned, From which service he has an excellent
heifer, Phe purchase of these animals was made
ata very moderate price and, added to the al-
ready good start, it has put Mr. Colman im line
fora veal Shorthorn herd, conditioned on proper
care. and feeding. The cows and hei'ers are of
rood size and are attractive in form with
fleshing quality. Apparently they are heavy
milkers. They represent in the top crosses such
sires as Silk Goods, the son of Choice Goods, and
the Norton bred Falsetto, both of which proved
excelent sires in Alex Fraser’s herd; Sempstress
Valentine; Prince Royal, T. TH. Mastin’s well
knowh som of imp. Princess Alice and inp.
Craven Inight.

It was in the purchase of Marquis Cumberland
that Mr. Colman was fortunate. This bull is of
meditun size, SIX years old, very smooth and well
covered. He mapressed me as being a little helt
in the hind quarter and in the flank but he is
every inch a bull and his calves up to three years
old which T saw, indicate that he is an exceptional
breeder, Marquis Cumberland was bred by ©.
A. Saunders and was in Ma. Saunder’s 1913 show
herd as junior calf, winning first at Des Moines
and at the South Dakota State Maiv and he was a
eood winner atthe American Royal, the National
Shorthorn Show and the Minnesota State Mair.
He is by Cumberland’s Best and lis dam is
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Anoka Mildred bred by F. W. Harding, she by
Anoka Sultan, second dam imp. Pine Grove Mil-
dved 1ith.

Asher & Allison, Lawrence.—Mr. Asher is
with the Watkins bank and My. Allison is on the
farm. They own a herd of cows, a number of
them bred along fashionable lines, and all are of
acceptable breeding as indicated by a wealth of
ancestry. The herd includes two highly prized
reds purehased from Tomson Bros., one by the
vreat Stunkel bull, Vietor Orange, and her
daughter by Nonpareil Vietor 2d, a full brother
to the bull sold by Pomsous for $2000 to go to
California. The herd is representative of such
bulls as Vietor Orange, Star Goods, White
(hoods, Orange Viscount, Baron Marr, Gallaut
Knight, Archer, Barmpton Kineht, Village Mai-
shal, Avondale, Whitehall Sultan and others of
merit that night be meutioned.

The bull at the head of the herd impressed me
favorably. He is a two-year-old white by Mavx-
walton Rosedale, full brother to Whitehall Rose-
dale, grand champion at the American Royal and
at the biggest western shows. His dam is by imp.
Crescent Knight and the second dam is imp.
Augusta 105th. Ile is a big, deep-bodied fellow
with much natural flesh and though quite thin,
shows smooth. Those who demand a fancy head
and neck night consider these points a little
coarse but he has a well-shaped Shorthorn bull
346 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

head that is anything but delicate and with 400
pounds of flesh, which he could easily carry, he
would be called a good bull anywhere.

Perkins & Alley, Lawrence.—In thus partner-
ship we have a commendable case of co-operation
between the man who owns the land and the man
who does the farming. Mr. Perkins is a banker
in Lawrence who owns valuable farm lands near
the city. He was wisely placed live stock on his
land aiddJ. W. Alley is his partner. The Short-
horns [ saw on my visit to the farm left no doubt
as to the excellence of the selections or as to the
care given them,

One of the best cows I have seen in looking
over Kansas herds I saw here in June 1919. She
is of the kind that never gets thin, as we gener-
ally understand the term, for she is naturally
thick, besides she is large, weighing 1650 pounds,
feminine in appearance and a heavy milker. Her
yearling heifer is very similar in type and gener-
al characteristics and the calf at foot was an
extra good one. The best cows are being bred to
Willis Colman’s outstanding bull, Marquis Cum-
berlind, a ©. A. Saunders bred son of Cumber-
land’s Best, son of Cumberland’s Last and sire
of Cumberland’s Type. This story is dedieated
to bankers of Kansas who own farms, with the
hope that others will follow the example of Mr.
Perkins.

John Black, Wellsville—Myr. Black is one of
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 347

the state’s old breeders who closed out in 1919
but likes Shorthorns so well he ean not do with-
out them. The small, but choice, herd recent!y
acquired consists of two heifers coming fro
Tomson Bros.; two bought at the 1920 Central
Sale, one of which is among the best young cows
I have seen lately and the fifteen-month-old
grand champion heifer sold at the Southeast
Kansas Show and Sale April 1920 for +500.
Park E. Salter furnished the bull. He is by
Rosewood Dale out of a dam by Sultan Victor,
the well known George Allen bred son of Victor
Sultan. Mr. Black has grandsons who plan to
sueceed him in the Shorthorn business.

EDWARDS COUNTY

J. P. Ray & Sons, Lewis.—i have seen an ex-
cellent young bull from the Ray herd and as I
write I have before me a photograph of three
calves from eight to thirteen months old that
settles the question of size and quality. Mr.
Ray bought two cows in 1903 and two more in
1904. Nothing has been purchased since except
herd bulls, vet he has sold a lot of stock and is
now holding annual bull sales from his herd of
about 100 head. This is my idea of a safe and
sure business. No young or middle-aged man,
who does as Mr. Ray has done, need worry about
the wolf at the door in old age.

One of the-early bulls was Buccaneer by imp.
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Collymie out of a dam by imp. Mariner. This
bull was uscd extensively and those who know
his ancestry need not be told more. He was foi-
lowed by a son of Forest Knight, a son of Gal-

 

THE KIND PRODUCED IN THI RAY HERD

lant Knight, and the Cowan bred Lily Forest 8th
by Norfolk, second dam by imp. Scottish Lord.
Mabel’s Goods 442060 by Henry Stunkel’s Star
Goods, own brother to the champion, Diamond
Goods and out of a cow by Victor Orange, was
once of the next bulls in service. The two bulls
now beme used ave Victorious by Nonpareil Vie-
tor, own brother to the Stunkel bred son of Vie-
for Orange sold te Tomson Bros. and sold) by
them for #2000 to vo to the Paecifie coast, and
Ciunberland Pero 668018. Cumberland Ilero is
by HW. L. Stunkel?’s Cumberland Diamond and his
dam is by Victor Orange which gives hun, right
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at the top of the pedigree, two exceptionally
good bulls.

ELK COUNTY

M. W. Bower, Grenola.—Mr. Bower bought a
few desirable cows two years ago and he is taking
good care of them. Rebecea Tth is by Lord Noy-
ette, an excellent bull owned by H. G. Brookover
and out of Rebecca by Rosewood. She has a
wealth of good ancestry. Lord Novette was by
imp. Collynie, dam by Lord Mayor, both among
the state’s greatest bulls of all times. Rosewood
was by imp. Inglewood that until recently held
the record of the top bull sold at the American
Royal sale and out of imp. Roseleaf by Scottish
Archer, My. Duthie’s greatest bull. There are a
few other cows of very similar breeding, in fact
all the cows in the herd are of these elegant blood
lines. A roan bull of choice ancestry is used.
A valuable object lessou to be found in My.
Bower’s methods is that in starting a herd the
cows selected should be closely descended from
well known sources of excellence as his were.

Geo. L. Dickie, Grenola.—Mr. Dickie bought
a cow in northwest Missouri some years ago and
he now has five females. Ue sells his bulls. My.
Dickie is in business in Grenola and has uo
farm but hires his cattle kept. He owns them for
pleasure and he says they are making money be-
sides. They are nicely bred, representing in
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ancestry such herds as that of J. F. Finley of
Missouri and such top crosses as ave represented
by Chief Violet 4th, Lord Lovel, Collynie and
Hampton Spray. The bull now being used is
Scottish Lad by Silvermine out of a dam by Cap-
tain Archer. If Mr. Dickie can make Short-
horns pay while he hires everything, why should
not the man with his own feed and labor make
the business profitable ?

W. W. Gragg & Sons, Severy.—T'wo of the
bulls used in this herd were Hardy Knight and
Masterstroke. Hardy Knight was by Gallant
Knight out of adam by Lord Mayor, second dam
by unp. Thistletop. Masterstroke was by imp.
Collynie. His dam was by Admiral Godoy, sec-
ond dam by Duke of Oakland 2d. Admiral Godoy
was by Godoy out of a dam by imp. Barbarossa.
The union of Scoteh bulls on American bred cows
strong in Bates blood has been one of the best
crosses known in Shorthorn history. The few
cows I saw at Mr. Grage’s were good and such as
one would expect from this line of breeding. The
present bull is Aeroplane, a rugged fellow, strong
in Collynie blood.

ELLSWORTH COUNTY
Roy Helmer, Geneseo.—Mr. Helmer bought
three cows from H. C. Lookabaugh that are by
Rosebud’s Light, a son of Watonga Searehlight
out of a daughter of imp. Rosebud 2d. Their
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dams are by such bulls as Violet’s Searchlight
and Owen Kane’s Augustive by Villager. A few
more were bought locally. Mr. Helmer’s cows
are for family use as well as for raising good
Shorthorns, since he believes it more profitable
to keep pure breds for this purpose than to keep
serubs or gradez, and in this view he is correct.
His bull was bred by Rousseau Smith & Sen and
is out of one of their best cows. (See Smith
sketch.) He is large, thick and smooth and from
a herd in which the cows are heavy milkers.

O. E. R. Schulz, Ellsworth —Mr. Schulz has
heen in the breeding business for six years. He
has a nicely bred herd of twenty females and the
good bull, Cclor Bearer by Maxwalton Rosedale,
full brother to the champion, Whitehall Rose-
dale. Color Bearer’s dam is by Gallant Knight
and out of imp. Clara 59th. There are some valu-
able cows in the herd, one of which is Model
Milkmaid, bred by W. A. Betteridge by the well
known Orange Model out of a dam by Victorious
out of Rose of Autumn 21st. This is exception-
ally good breeding and is very popular. The bull
used prior to the purchase of Color Bearer was
Abbotsford Lad by Wooddale Chieftain, a son of
The Choice of All. Myr. Schulz has a splendid
local demand for his stock.

FINNEY COUNTY
R. J. Ackley, Garden City.—Mr. Ackley’s
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large herd is composed of some excellent mater-
wil. Among other good eows is Pleasant Jeal-
ousy 2d by Watonea Searchlight out of a dam
by imp. Shenstone Albino, Harriet Sunshine is
by Seeret Aberdeen, a son of Aberdeen by imp.
Collymie and out of the “aplendid cow, Lilac
Bloom. The bull, Seeret Aberdeen was mueh
used in the herd. Another herd bull was Faney
Velvet by Faney Lord, coming through Tomson
Bros. from R. O. Miller. The bull now in use is
Avondale Villager, an Owen Kane production
by Augustine. His dam is by the great son of
Avondale, Double Dale. A herd with such ances-
try should be a desirable source of supply.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

R. H. Lister, Ottawa.—On this farm condi-
tions present a bright outlook for the future. Mr.
Lister has had successful experience in breeding
and feeding cattle and appearances indicate that
he should be good for enough lease on life to put
up a herd of extraordinary merit. . The cattle
are almost exclusively high-class females, seleet-
ed not from the pedigree standpoint but for in-
dividual worth and they are of the true Short-
horn money making type. Mar. Lister has paid
little or no attention to the blood lines, though
as is invariably the ease, when the right kinds of
Shorthorns are selected, they ave from the right
kinds of aneestry for ‘‘Figs do not grow on
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thistles’’ any more than they did 2000 years ago.
An inspection of three crosses in the pedigrees
of these cattle, selected as My. Lister says, with-
out regard to pedigree, reveals much high-class
material.

Among the bulls are Searchlight, sire of the
$3500 cow in the 1919 Salter sale; Prince Pa-
vonia, the noted son of the noted cow imp. Glen-
dale Pavonia; Golden Victor, the Baron Victor
show and breeding bull; Golden Day out of imp.
Mistletoe aud sive of the dams of International
prize winning steers; Lavender Viscount, Inter-
national grand champion and famous sire at
Ravenswood; Lord Mayor, one of America’s
ereatest bulls that lived fifteen years in Kansas;
Choice Goods, America’s champion show bull
and leading sire of his day; imp. Hospodar sold
to go to South America; the splendid Bellows
bred Valley Champion; Barmpton Knight, sire
of prize winners and breeding cows in great num-
bers: Matchless Dale, the noted bull at the Kan-
sas State Agricultural College and sive of dozens
of America’s champion steers and Cumberland
Type, the undefeated and sensational bull bred
and developed by C. A. Saunders.

Mr. Lister’s herd was founded in 1916 and the
first bull used was the Nevius bred Searchlight
Bloom, a son of Searchlight out of a dam by
Golden Day, (sce previous mention) a sire of
eveat breeding cows in the T. P. Babst herd.
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The bull now in service was bred by H. H.
Holnes. Tle is a roan son of Prince Valentine
tth, a successful show and breeding bull used by
C. 8. Nevius, Tomson Bros., H. H. Holmes and
A. L. Harris. His dam is by Captain Archer,
noted sire of show stuff in J. F. Stodder’s herd.
The calves sired by this bull have size, depth and
thickness with nice finish and if they mature as
they promise, they will make the right kind of
Shorthorns. My. Lister’s operations, covering a
period of only three vears, show that 1f a man
really knows eood cattle and will give them the
nieht kind of care, he ean be successful from the
start without speeial Shorthorn knowledge.

A. L. Johnston, Ottawa.—Mr. Johnston is pres-
ident of the Eastern Kansas Shorthorn Breeders
Association and of the Duroc-Jersey Association

ff the Ottawa territory. He is nicely located
near town and has a munber of high-class Short-
horns and his herd should become one among the
best in the state. About two years ago the first
purchase of extra good stock was made when he
secured among others Rosewood Cathay by the
46100 Missie’s Last, and this cow produeed in
1919 an elegant roan heifer ealf by imp. Bapton
Jorporal. Another valuable purchase was Ein-
blem’s Butterfly by imp. Proud Emblem Jv. that
now has a calf by imp. British Emblem. This
cow earries right at the top of her pedigree such
sires as Fair Knight 2d, Choice Goods and Mr.
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Duthie’s noted bulls, Joy of Morning and Seott-
ish Prince. Pavonia 6th, a Tomson bred year-
ling by Village Marshal out of Glendale Pavonia,
a daughter of imp. Glendale Pavonia, should
prove especially attractive to eastern Kansas
breeders who know so well what these Short-
horns have done for breed interests. This heifer
is safe in calf to imp. Bapton Mariner, the ex-
cellent herd bull now in use.

Bapton Mariner comes from England’s lead-
ing herd, that of J. Deane Willis and his sire,
Hoar Frost, is one of the most noted bulls ever
used by Mr. Willis. He is generally well re-
garded by breeders and My. Johnston considers
the $2500 he paid for him an excellent invest-
ment.

Vail & Scott, Pomona.—T'wo years ago these
men came from Missourl where Mr. Vail had
been breeding Shorthorns for quite a number of
years. Their herd includes about twelve fe-
males of good size and quality and of very nice
breeding, some of them meeting the demands of
sticklers for certain Scotch blood lines. Among
the well known bulls found in the top crosses
might be mentioned Lavender Viceroy of the W.
A. Betteridge herd; tmp. Daydreams Pride;
Galahad, sire of Gallant Knight; Baron Laven-
der 2d, possibly the outstanding bull of Col.
Harris’ production; Silk Goods, the son of
Choice Goods used by Alex Fraser and later by
356 A UISTORY OF SHORTIIORNS IN KANSAS

H. BE. Huber of Meriden; Choice Goods, grand
champion of America; The Conqueror, Senator
Wornall’s well known son of Choiee Goods and
other good ones. The herd bull is a nice red, bred
by Owens Bros. of Towa. He is of fair size and
acceptable ee type, quite smooth, and
the calves I saw by him indicate that he ae been
a satisfactory sive. He is by the Bellows bred
Sultan’s Goods and comes from the Owens
Queen of Beauty line.

Vail & Seott ave in a natural small farm stock
country and conveniently near to the great eattle
section of the state so that their business is both
pleasant and profitable. Building up a herd
from a start hke theirs should be easy.

H. F. Cornell, Ottawa—This herd was founded
in 1919 and now numbers ten females, coming
from splendid sourees of supply and from exeel-
lent aneestry. Lady Harmony is by Baron Marr,
an outstanding son of Cumberland’s Last, fa-
mous in F. O. Lowden’s and ©. A. Saunder’s
herds, out of imp. Lady Marr. Lady Harmony’s
dam came from T. P. Babst and was by Proud
Orion by imp. Daydreams Pride, second dam by
Laird of Linwood, almost a full brother to Gal-
lant Kinieht, third dam by Lord Mavor. The
richness of these blood lines should satisfy the
most eritical. Amy eame from Kelly Bros. Her
sire, Aberdeen, was by Lord Banff, the first
Seoteh bull to sell for more than #5000 and a
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show bull and sire o* yuausnal merit. Pine Queen,
a nice roan is by Pine Champion, a Purdy Bros.
production by Lerd Champion, a well known
Purdy sire out of the famous cow, imp. Lady
Douglas, dain of Cuimberland’s Last. The dam
of Pine Queen was by Lord Lovel, one of the
West’s famous sires. While My. Cornell holds
extensive banking interests he has a patural in-
clination toward live stock.

R. 8. Maag, Pomona—This is a herd of twenty
females, founded in 1916. The cows are of
medium size and, like the inajority of Short-
horns in this section, they receive good farm eare.
Desirable blood lines and ancestry are found in
this herd. Pride’s Beauty came from J. A. Lori-.
mer and her sire was by Baron Marr, the ex-
cellent son of Cumberland’s Last and imp. Lady
Marr. Baron Mary was also the sire of College
Duchess, dam of College Duchess 2d, sold in the
State ene dation sale in 1920 for $3900. Other
Lorimer bred cows are Peggy Princess 3d by
Prince Pavonia and Fanny 2d, a five-year-
old roan by a gon of Baron Marr. The herd
bull is Lovely Knight by a son of Gallant
Knight’s Heir and his dam is Lovely of Park-
dale 3d by Good Choice. Lovely Knight is of
very popular breeding.

John Milier, Richmond.—Mr. Miller has nine
cows representing, like most Franklin county
cattle, thoroughly good blood lines. He is well
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located to produce stock, having limestone pas-
ture and alfalfa land and with such facilities and
& previous successful experience in raising
market topping grades, he should have no ditt
culty in building upa good pure bred herd. The
bull in use, not yet two years old, 1s a very large
one, pleasing ti gencral appearance, but possibly
a little lacking im depth and thickness for best
results, although the small calves by hint looked
quite promising.

T. C. Brown & Bro., Ottawa.—The Browns,
old breeders of Hranklin county, have a herd of
useful cattle of very nice breeding. They have
not been developing toe the poimt required for
best results and the produce has been sold locally
at moderate prices. Like many others who have
followed this plan, the Browns think of putting
more into their Shorthorns and when they do,
theiv herd will become a strong factor in local
cattle Tmprovement.

Floyd Carter, Rantoul—Mr. Carter has been
breeding grade Shorthorms ever since he began
raising cattle. Three years ago he bought a few
cows from the well known MeHechron herd at
Richmond and a bull From tlenry Sobba of An-
derson county and he is now building up a pure
bred herd. dle is favorably located where Short-
horns are popular and he should sueceed for
with good management success is certain it sueh
commutes.
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GEARY COUNTY

George J. Caspar, Alida.*—I*ive years ago
My. Caspar bought his start in Shorthorns from
H. H. Holines and he acted wisely in buying good
cows from good ancestry. ep sar Lady is by
Clipper Model (see Holnes ee. nd out of
adam by Captain Archer, own brother a Sweet
Mistletoe, dam of the Tite eAttional erand cham-
pion in 1919, Lena Lady came from G. H. WI
and is by Hampton’s Counsellor by ee 8
Best, a son of imp. Merry Hampton and a sire
of outstanding merit. Her dam is by the Duthie
bred imp. Lavender Champion. Rose Victorious
is by Victorious, famous sire in N. H. Gentry’s
herd, a son of Lord Mayor out of a dam by imp.
Baron Victor. (See Holmes sketch.) The bull
used is Silver Stamp by Viscount Stamp 2d out
of Hallwood Golden Drop. It is only necessary
to state that this bull combines the blood of the
best Shorthorns from the Ravenswood herd and
from Ed Hall’s herd. Sueh a selection of foun-
dation stock should, with the good feed and care
being given the cattle, put Mr. Caspar in line
with the best breeders of his section or any other.

GREENWOOD COUNTY

H. G. Brookover, Eureka.——Mr. Brookover
has the oldest herd in Greenwood county, the

 

= Telephone, Upland.
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Foundation having been Jaid in 1900 by purchase
from O. L. Thisler. Later two cows, Sunny Maid
bd and Tlappiness, were bought from: Tomson
Bros. Sunny Maid 8d was by the Barmpton
Koneht bull bord Marigold, dam by imp. Cres-
cent Koanght, second dam imp. Sunny Blink 6th
and Tappiness was by Gallant Kinight, dam by
Lord Mayor, second dam by tinp. Thistletop.
Mr. Brookover has been careful in his selec-
tion of herd bulls and, as might be expected, the
herd has taken ona uniformity far beyond that
of imost herds. The care and feed eiven have
been such as to mative a desirable class of cattle,
the matured cows off erass that have becn sold
weighing about 1400 pounds. Among the first
bulls used in building up this herd was Green-
wood, bred by V. R. Ellis and sired by Sir
Charming 4th, a grandson of the noted cow,
Sweet Charity. This bull was followed by one of
the best ever owned on the farm, a bull that
would have been aeredit to any herd, the massive
red roan, Rosewood, bred by S.C. Tlamna. Lis
sive was the splendid show and breeding bull,
inp. Lnelewood, the Iighest priced bull sold at
an Americal Royal sale wntil within the last few
years. This dam was imp. Roseleaf by Mr.
Duthie’s ereatest sire, Scottish Archer After be-
ing used to the Timid, Rosewood was sold to HH. M.
Hall for whom he sired mueh good stoek imelud-
ine the white bull, Silvermine, J. EL. Stodder’s
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successor to Captain Archer, Then came Bap-
ton Lord a Forsythe bred grandson of imp.
Bapton Arrow, one of the ereat bulls of the
breed. Another Hanna bred bull was then used,
Loid Novette by imp. Collynie out of an excellent
cow by Lord Mayor. Next was Victory, a roan by
Hampton Spur, out of one of My, Hanna’s cows
by Count Violet

Two good In ite are now in use. One is by
John Resier’s Dale’s Emblem, a son of Double
Dale. His dam is by the outstanding show and
breeding bull, Nonpareil Star. He is siring a
nice lot of cattle, both bulls and heifers being of
splendid form avd quality. The other is Master
ee a ee ae ed son of Beaver Creek Sul-
tan, for which $1000 was paid recently. His dam
is ne Barinptou 8 and, while hardly more
than a ealf, he will bear very close inspection
and he should prove a bighly acceptable herd
bull.

Mr. Brookover is one of the most modest of
men and is conservative in his statements almost
toa fault. This is especially true when he speaks
of his own oe which buyers have learned are
fully as good as they have been represented. In
this he might well serve as a model to all but
especially to young breeders, who seldom realize
the value of a couservative description.

W.H.& B. Brookover, Eureka.—These young
inen bave about twenty females of breeding age
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which represent the choicest specimens from the
herd owned by their father, W. J. Brookover.
Their cattle descend from two cows, Collynie
Jiass and Princess Violet 3d. Collynie Lass by
the 2800 pound Prince of Collynie, dam by Gold-
en Lad, a son of Mr. Dustin’s Golden Rule and
hnp. Germanica 2d, represents a line of breeding
that from the standpoint of excellent ancestry
and desirable blood lines could hardly be im-
proved. The other cow, Princess Violet 5d, was
bred by C. 8. Nevius and sired by Prince
Pavonia and was purchased with a splendid
heifer calf by Searchlight at foot. The dam of
Princess Violet 8d was by the Westrope bred
Gloster and the line of descent further down is
of the best, doubtless such as to meet the ap-
proval of the most critical. Ma. Brookover paid
$525 for this cow and ealf in the days when #100
bought a very good cow. It is not surprising
that satisfactory results have followed the use of
good bulls on such foundation stock and that
this herd is mm line for recognition in the near
future.

Tn the main, the bulls in use have been the ex-
cellent ones owned by H. G. Brookover, also the
splendid show and breeding bull, Blythe Con-
queror, used and shown suecessfully by C. F.
Wolf & Son. Tle was by imp. Conqueror out of
imp. Blythesome T5th and a few big, beefy cows
by him speak well for his worth as a sire. A
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nice lot of young things are by the Dale’s Em-
blem bull, Oscar. (See H. G. Brookover sketch. )
These heifers are large and show admirable
finish, among them being a senior calf that at the
tine of ny visit was a favorite among calves of
its age for show in the fall.

The bull in service is Village Master, selected
by one of the best judges in Kansas for use in
this herd. He was bred by J. F. Prather of Ih-
nous and his sive is Mr. Prather’s herd bull, Sil-
ver Knight, a bull that stood high in his class
at the Liternational. The dam of Village Master
is by Matchless Robin by the great Forbes bull,
unp. Cock Robin, out of a cow by Baron Gloster,
second dain by the well known Fearless Archer.
It is putting it mildly to say that I liked this big,
beefy, two-year-old bull. He is an animal of the
type that will give the maximum returns for the
feed consumed. He stands close to the ground,
his proportions of length and depth are right, he
has an elegant bull head and neck and carries a
wealth of natural flesh beyond that usually
found in good bulls. L saw ten of his calves and
from them picked out three that would be real
show prospects anywhere. Village Master has
been shown twice at the Greenwood county fair,
winning first place each year. He also won the
American Shorthorn Association championship
in 1919 and 1920, and he would be a strong bull
in larger shows.
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Claude Lovett, Neal.*—Mr. Lovett is a gradu-
ate from the Department of Agronomy in the
Kansas State Agricultural College. Tle has an
excellent farm that produces alfalfa and has
plenty of Innestone pasture. LHe began farming
on lis own account four years ago and has kept
Shorthorns since that time. is first purchase
was made at If. MH. Tuber’s sale in 1916 where he
secured two choice heifers from which he has
made good sales of bulls. A yearling heifer de-
secnded from this purchase was fitted for show
and won first honors at several fairs. Sub-
sequent additions were made to the herd at
strong prices, a lot of four heifers having been
purchased m one sale at an average of $700.

Taken as a whole, the breeding of this herd is
most acceptable and imeludes some of the
popular blood Hines of the day. The individual
merit of the foundation stock is such as to make
if fit for a real Shorthorn herd. The bull in use
at the time of my visit was Scoteh Lord, a splen-
did, big, beefy roan, bred by J. G. Robbins & Son,
sived by Lord Avondale, one of America’s most,
poprlar bulls, whose ect have been selling for ex-
eecdingly lnieh prices. The dam of Scotch Lord
represents two evreat bulls, Choiee Goods and
Spiey Robin and his seeoud dam is imp. Golden

tem by the Marr bred Seotch Thistle. This bull

isa breeder of heifers of pronounced excellence

Station, Tonovay; telephone, Hurelka,
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 365

and light colors, the young females in the herd by
him being very uniform and of most pleasing
Shorthorn type and character.

I glanced over the pedigrees of Mi. Lovett’s
cattle and found a wealth of Shorthorn excel-
lenee near the top. Whitehall Sultan, Gaveston
Collynie, imp. Salamis, Victor Orange, Non-
pareil Victor, Choice Goods, Silk Goods, imp.
Inglewood, March Knight, Spartan Hero, Prince
Pavonia, Searchlight, Lavender Viscount and
Baron Lavender 2d give an idea of the breeding
of the herd. Among the choice cows are Long-
branch Queen whose name indicates her origin,
Seotch Lady by Roval Sultan 380246 out of
Scotch Mysie 7th 141050 and Lady Wharton of
M. H. Lyon’s breeding.

My. Lovett’s method of handling is in keeping
with the general character of the herd and its
owner. Constant growth is the desired object.
While good blood lines do not always insure good
cattle, vet Mr. Lovett has met the final test. His
herd is not large, numbering ouly thirty head but
from this little herd he made showings at Eureka,
Fredonia and Jola in 1919, winning every first in
each class except two at these three fais. In 1920
a larger showing was made with even greater suc-
cess. Three head were shown at Topeka and all
were well in the money, his two-year-old heifer
having stood third in open class.

T. M. Etherington, Hamilton.—Mv. Ethering-
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fon has a large herd of Shorthorns which is be-
ing handled ina way to bring out the degree of
development found im the average herd. Hair
size, sinoothness and uniformity are noticeable
features. Mr. Etherington started some years
ago with a few cows bought from local breeders.
He has been using good bulls and retaining the
heifers, selling his bull calves to the farmers near
by. It is evident that the herd has been prolifie
and profitable.

One of the first bulls used was bred by D. P.
Norton and was sired by Buceancer, Then caine
Vindicator by Collynie out of Belle Abbotsburn
by Young Abbotsburn, the grand champion of
America for several years. From Kellerman &
Son was secured a bull by Lavender Dorrit, out
of a dam by Lavender King 4th. <A dash of
Bates blood was introduced through a son of
Winsome Duke 11th. TT. G. Brookover’s herd
furnished a son of Rosewood, the son of inp.
Inglewood and inp. Roscleat hy Scottish Archer.
The last purchase came from Kd St ee and is
by True Sultan, Iiternational errand ee
a son of Anoka Sultan and one of the best bulls
In the state or nation. Roan Acacia, a bie fellow
bred by D. C. VanNiece and sired by the well
known Belvedere, the excellent. prize winning
and breeding bull used so lone by Mr. VanNiee,
Is also In service.

J. C. Parks, Hamilton.—IIere is a herd that
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 367

receives close personal attention and shows cor-
responding results. The young stock is large
and has quality as well as size. The cows are
kept in thrifty condition and range from medium
to large. There are about twenty-five females
in the herd. Roan Calla 6th is a five-year-old by
Our Choice. She represents a blending of the
blood lines of Choiee Goods, Whitehall Sultan
and other high-class bulls, less known. Miss
Ellen is another cow with an infusion of Choice
Goods blended with imp. Collynie. Morning
Glory is a roan by Snowball, son of Mr. Hanna’s
Hampton Spray out of a dam by imp. Lord Cow-
shp. Another good cow by Snowball is Miss
Phyllis 12th, a roan out of a dam by Orange
Master. (See H. T. Forbes sketch.)

One of the bulls used was Inele Lord by Ingle
Lad. Ingle Lad was an excellent breeding bull
and sired many great producing cows, licluding
Cream Toast, dam of the champion milking
Shorthorn at the Denver show. Lavender V,
grand champion at the Southeast Kansas Short-
horn Show in 1920, is the herd bull. He is by
Clansman, a son of Lavender Viceroy by the
erand champion, Lavender Viscount. His dam
is by the famous Tebo Lawn bull, The Conqueror
by Choice Goods, used so succeessfully by Sen-
ator Wornall.

F. L. Gilbert, Hamilton—Mr. Gilbert keeps
many e¢attle on his farm and he has put in a few
368 A HISTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

Shorthorns, about ten cows, because of the fact
that profits seem much surer to him in raising
cattle than in regulation steer handling and he
is not alone in realizing that cattle erowine is
safer than annual buying. Tis Shorthorns are
of good ancestry and are nice individuals, tend-
ing toward the dual-purpose type, a kind that is
mecting with much favor from farmers just now.
The herd represents in selection and blood lines
two loeal herds, T. M. Etherineten’s and W. E.
Hogan’s and that of Andrew Pringle of Esk-
ridge and is typical of these herds, which means
that a rich infusion of best blood on a good
American foundation is found. The dull in use
is a smooth, short-legged, straieht-lined fellow
and the young calves look promising. Mr. Gil-
hert has a chance to handle his cattle well and he
seems to be making use of his opportunities.

j. T. Martin & Son, Madison.—This herd of
ten females was founded in 1912 and is located im
one of the choice live stock seetions of the state.
Alfalfa, ensilage and the best pasture are the
rule. Blythesome, a large red cow, is a danehter
of the splendid bull, Athenian Coronet 4th, a son
of inp. Bapton Coronet out of Augusta 111th by
Scotch Fame. Ter dam is by Sir Knight, a son
of Col. Tarris’ Golden Kinght and imp. Sorrel
by Roan Gauntlet. Royal Paquita was bred by
Mr. Hanna. She ishy Prince Roval and her dam

is Tebo Lawn Paquita by Prinee Armor, the
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white son of the great imp. Princess Alice. Snow-
bird is another Hanna bred daughter of Prince
Royal out of a dam by Choice Prince, son of
Choice Goods out of a Prince of Tebo Lawn cow.
Perfection, a bull eombining imp. Collynie,
Rosewood and others of Ma. Hanna’s herd is in
service. The Martin herd is strong in the blood
of some of the best stoek of the state.

Kenneth Wilson, Hamilton.—That Mr. Wil-
son has the right ideas of Shorthorn type and the
best methods of handling cattle was quite appar-
ent during a half day spent with him in visiting
other herds. Mr. Wilson’s cattle represent a
mingling of bleed lines rather than the straight
Scotch cross and they are good, big, smooth cows
bred for individual merit from the best ancestry
but not put together in such a way as to win the
unqualified approval of the stickler for
‘“straight.’’ Nevertheless, he is getting results
and the herd, strong in Scotch blood of the very
best kind, is perhaps better for a seeming disre-
eard of straight blood lines. As an evidence of
success it may be mentioned that a calf of Mr.
Wilson’s production won first at the Greenwood
county fair last fall and was recently sold to W.
J. Brookover, an old Shorthorn breeder, for use
in his steer breeding operations, the final test of
merit in Greenwood county.

Rawlings Bros., Eureka.—This firm has been
raising high grade Shorthorns for some time,
370 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

using Jugh-class bulls. Five years ago a pure
bred cow was bought from David Ballantyne.
She was by Collynie’s Pride, the outstanding
sire by imp. Collynie, out of a daughter of Royal
Knight, son of the famous imp. Princess Alice.
Later another good cow was added from a local
herd. The herd bull was bred by O. O. Massa
and is representative of Prince Pavonia
through one of his best cows. Rawlings Bros.
intend keeping a Shorthorn herd and their
location for the business is a most excellent one.

L. E. Downing, Hamilton.—Mr. Downing has
made a start in Shorthorns by buying three good
cows. One of them is an unusually large, ma-
tronly red, that if bred to a suitable bull, should
prove valuable. It is Mr. Downing’s intention
to continue in the business and to improve his
cattle and a young man with such an ambition
will sueceed. He has not yet bought a bull but
plans to buy one for another year.

W. E. Hogan, Madison.—Mr. [logan sue-
ceeded lis father in 1908 and the quality of his
cattle that I have seen testifies to his success.
The cows are of good size, smooth and feminine,
reflecting the character of the bulls used, sueh
as Vindicator by imp. Collynie, dam by Young
Abbotsburn, Snowball by Hampton Spray and
Red Prince by Prinee Violet, dam by Godwin.
This is one of the oldest and best known herds
in northern Greenwood county.
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HARPER COUNTY

D. Wohlschlegel & Sons, Harper.—From high
grades to pure breds is only a step but a very
logical one to take on $100 an acre land and the
men who take such a step almost invariably put
up the best Shorthorn herds. The Wohlschlegel
herd will be no exeeption. Two years ago a start
was made with a few cows bought from local
breeders. Later the imported cow, Kier Jip, was
bought of Park E. Salter. She is a very excel-
lent individual and was in calf to imp. Bapton
Corporal and produced a splendid red heifer. At
the Salter sale in May 1919 the Wohlschlegels
bought imp. Viola Gem in ealf to imp. Aberdeen
and also the Tomson bred Lady Violet 2d by
Beaver Creek Sultan. The dam of Lady Violet
2d was by Barmpton Sultan 3d by Geo. Allen’s
Victor Sultan, a son of Whitehall Sultan. Prior
to this they had bought Stamford Bess, a Can-
adian bred cow by Royal Star, a son of Choice
Star 611569 out of Lovelace 6th by Scottish
Beau. These are all cows of great excellence and,
added to several very good ones already on the
farm, give a working herd that will be recognized
in the future. One of the cows on hand from
the earliest purchase is Clear Echo, a white by
Scotch Laddie, a son of the fine sire, Prince Val-
entine 4th. Her dam is by the Hanna bred Sym-
metrical out of Gayety by imp. Collynie. Another
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one, Silver Poppy, is a yearling by White Hope
486354 out of a dam by Henry Stunkel’s great
sire, Victor Orange, secoud dam by Purdy Bros.’
Lord Lovel.

An excellent bull, ALHfalfa Leaf Dale bred by
Jobn Regier, has been used. This bull is by
Dale’s Emblem, a son of Double Dale and out of
Edelweiss 8th, the cow that topped Park E.
Salter’s 1917 sale at $1625. She had a heifer calf
at foot that has long since anid for ae yand the
cow herself sold in an Towa sale for $1800. 1
mention this to show the kind of ancestry the
bull had. In the recent Carpenter & Ross sale
one of the good young bulls of the offerimg was
bought. He was imp. Bapton Dramatist by
Boqubhan Stamp and his dam was by Newbliss
Augusta’s Champion. This youngster was bred
by Deane Willis. He is a remarkably smooth
yearling, very straight, with thick lom and
ereat covering of mellow flesh. He looks hke
the making of a good sized bull and, barring a
slight unevenness on the rump, he is exceedingly
hard to fault.

The conditions for the production of high-
class Shorthorns are the best. There is plenty of
pasture. Alfalfa, cnslwage and other feeds
are abundant and the Wohlschlegels are not
afraid to feed them. Best of all, the tour junior
members of the firm are strong, husky boys with
a great deal of enthusiasm for Shorthorns and
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they look after details almost to perfection—a
euarantee for a well grown herd in the future.

Not less than cight good females have been
added to this herd since June 1919. Probably the
most Important purchase was that of four im-
ported heifers secured at the Salter-Robison sale.
dn the same sale one of the best American bred
females was also bought. These heifers will be
bred this season, 1920, to np. Bapton Dramatist
and the calves from this cross should be among
the most valuable Shorthorns ever produced in
Jxansas.

John B. Potter, Harper.—Mr. Potter willbe a
permanent man in the Shorthorn business. THe
has some exeellent cows in his herd which is
quite large. A big-bodied roan by Searchlight
is one that attracts attention and a nice lot of
females recently bought of northwest Missouri
breeders with a dozen excellent ones from D. A.
Ewing and others raised locally, make up the
herd. Good bulls have been used. One of the
latest im service and a bull of real worth,
which quality he transmitted to lis calves, was
Master Pavoma by Prince Pavonia. A number
of the cows are by Hallwood Goods, a son of
Choice Goods out of imp. Sylvia. Forest Knight
by Gallant Knight out of a Cowan bred eow by
Norfolk; Chief Archer by Whitehall Chief, son
of Whitehall Sultan and Butterfly Abbotsburn
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the sires of cows in the herd. Some of the
younger heifers are by Rosewood Dale and imp.
Bapton Corporal.

Rosewood Dale by Avondale out of imp. Rose-
wood 92d was recently purchased at a long price
and is now doing excellent service. THe is the sire
of the highest priced female of her age sold in
Park E. Salter’s record sale at Wichita in 1919,
as well as of the highest priced heifer in a sale
held previously. His reputation as one of the
ereat bulls of the breed is fully established and
his use adds much prestige to Mr. Potter’s herd,

Miss Marguerite V. Stanley, Anthony.—Miss
Stanley is the only lady of the fraternity mtro-
duced in these pages. In the data of her herd,
sent me by request, Miss Stanley has told her
story so well that [am using her own version as
she has written it. Her herd is from the very
best sources of supply and those who see it will
like it. Miss Stanley is the leading organizer
and publicity agent for Shorthorn iterests im
her county.

“Waving been my father’s boy for a number
of years, 1 naturally developed a love for stoek.
Seven years ago Lb bought three erade cows but
soon saw where to make more money and today
I take pleasure in introducing to the publie my
modest little herd of twenty Scotch cattle, strong
in the famous Collynie blood, with some infus-
ions of Avondale blood. LT am endeavoring to
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develop my herd for size, bone, flesh and milk-
ing qualities, |

“My herd bull Seeret Robin should fill this
bill. Tle is a deep, broad, thick-fleshed, smooth,
white three-year-old bull weighing 2000 pounds in
Farin condition with ordinary eare and promises
to be as good as his splendid ancestry suggests.
His sive, Linwood Victorious, bred by Forbes &
Son Was a very massive, short-legged, wide-out,
smooth, beefy bull and a double grandson of imp.
Cock Robin. Seerct Robin’s dam, Snow Secret,
isa half sister to the grandam of Lady Supreme,
International grand champion female, 1920,
both sired by Ingle Lad by imp. Collynie. His
grandam, Wistful, is a half sister to the dam of
Lespedeza Collynie, Enternational grand cham-
pion bull, 1918, both sired by imp. Collynie. (See
H. M. Hill sketch.)

‘“*We have in our herd one real cow, sired by
inp. Collvnie; one, a half sister to the $3500
Cherry Blossom, sired by the grand champion,
Searchheht; another, a large, deep, wide, smooth
heavy milker, by Hampton Spray, her grandam
by imp. Collynie; Dale’s Superb by Master of the
Dales, a direct descendant of Sempstress of Oak-
land Sth of Mr. Pott’s famous show herd and
the dam of fifteen calves; one granddaughter of
Genfoyle Magnet, with yearling heifer from
imp. Village Maid foundation; one wide, thick-
fleshed heifer by Baron Exeelsior, a grandson
378 A HISTORY OF SITORTHORNS IN KANSAS

of inp. Villager, sired by Augusta Baron; one
heifer by a grandson of Craven Knight and from
the Duthie Jealous Girl foundation also some
eood heifers by Rosewood Dale by Avondale.

“We feel that our crop of calves by Seerct
Robin from these vood cows and heifers will be
little gold nugeets and we take pleasure in show-
ing them to visitors or prospective buyers. We
have a few females for sale at all times, also
some nice Scotch bulls. We meet trams upon
request at Anthony, Ascot or Harper at any
time.”’

S. D. Cox, Harper.—Mr. Cox had an excelent
herd of erade Shorthorns which might as well
have been pure breds. Seeing the mistake, he
bought two cows by Faime’s Goods, son of Ru-
berta’s Goods and imp. Princess Fame. These
cows were out of dams by Seeret Prince, a son
of Prince Pavonia and a good Gallant Knight
cow. He also bought two heifers by Hampton,
son of Ma. Hamna’s Hampton Spray out of Gold-
m Queen Sd by imp. Collynie, second dam imp.
tolden Queen, Their dams were hy Royal But-
terfly by W. A. Betteridge’s Lavender Viceroy
and by Oakwood, a son of imp. Inglewood. It

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will be seen from this that a select foundation
is being laid from excellent ancestry.

Fora bull Mr. Cox bought Alfalfa Leaf News
10th bred by John Regier. Ile is by Good News,

a son of the Choice Goods bull, New Goods that
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headed Harriman Bros.’ herd at the time of its
(aspersion. His dam is by Nonpareil Star, a son
of imp. Nonpareil Victor, famous as a sire of
show stock ia George Bothwell’s herd and out of
a cow by the well known Chief Violet 4th. This
is a tried sive of merit and a good individual.
Mated with Ma. Cox’s cows, and with the off-
spring given the generous treatment he is said
to give his catile, we may expect to see some
valuable Mhorthorns ou this far.

R. H. Cunningham, Harper.—Not all has been
sinooth sailing with Mr. Cunningham since he
embarked in the cattle business but he has some-
thing to show for his work and he is sticking to
it. It has been lis plan to buy a few more fe-
males and to build up as good a herd as he is
capable of making. His location is very favor-
able for best vesulis in cattle growing.

The stock on hand at the time of my visit was
eood. Silver Belle is by a son of Tomson’s great
sire, Barmpton Knight, out of a cow by the
Bellows bred Haimpton’s Crown by THamptou’s
Best. Tler dam is representative of imp. Ingle-
wood that for vears was the highest priced bull
sold at an American Royal sale, and of Prince
Pavouia. One of the best things is a heifer by
Master Pavonia, (sce John B. Potter sketch)
dam by Joe’s Lord, a son of Lord Mayor out of
an imp. Thistletop dam.

The herd bull is Secret Prince, bred by H. M.
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Hill. Eis sire is Linwood Victorious by Forbes’
outstanding Vietor Linwood out of a dam by Vie-
tor Linwood. Seeret Prince has for dam one of
the splendid cows of the breed descended from
cows and bulls not equalled in quality by many
Shorthorns and his breeding is along the very
best Cruickshank lines. He was used for nearly
two years by J.C. Thorn & Son where he proved
hunself a capital sire.

W. M. Nye, Harper.—This herd docs not run
as evel as some, owing to stock having been
purchased from several sourees yet there are
few herds that, as a whole, are descended from a
better line of ancestry. The sires of the cows are
such bulls as Violet’s Goods by The Choice of All
and out of Violet Mist 7th, the dam of Mr.
Hanna’s Hampton Spray; Villager Sultan, a
son of Double Sultan by Sultan Anoka and out of
a dam by Villager; Protector by Barmpton
Knight and out of a dam by Lord Mayor; Vietor
Archer by Archer and out of a dam by Gallant
Koneht. Their dams were by such bulls as White
Sultan by a son of Glenbrook Sultan and out of a
dain by Good Choice; Sandoval by Baron Lav-
ender 2d out of tmp. Sorrel; Oakwood by imp.
Tnelewood and out of Sempstress of Oakland 8th
by Thistlewood ; Golden Lad by Golden Rule and
out of Germamea 2d: the Duthie bred limp. Lav-
ender Champion and the Marr bred imp. Con-
queror.
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A big, straight-lined, massive bull is in service,
Butterfly Sultan 300788. He is by Baron Sul-
tan, a son of Whitehall Sultan out of Athene of
Rosedale by Vietoria’s Count. His dam is by
Victoria of Evergreen Park 5th 184632 and his
second dam is by the C. C. Norton bred Chief
Lavender 139145, Alfalfa and ensilage are avail-
able and Mr. Nye should become a successful
breeder.

Walter Simonson, Anthony.—Mr. Simonson
has been handling cattle on a large seale and
some years ago he bought a few Shorthorn cows
which have been kept with satisfactory results.
I found here some very good eows and the herd,
as a whole, is a fairly good one. It is the plan
to let the pure breds increase with a view of
gradually closing out the grades.

Among the best cows on the farm is one by
Victor Archer out of a dam by Mr. Stodder’s
Geo. Archer, a son of Captain Archer. Her dam
is by Sempstress Valentine, a son of St. Valen-
tine. Another Vietor Archer cow is Silver
Girl 5th. Her dam is by imp. Aylesbury Duke.
Beauty Belle 3d, bought at one of the recent
Salter sales, sired by Rosewood, the splendid son
of imp. Inglewood and inp. Roseleaf by Scottish
Areher, has a bull ealf by Sultan’s Last by
Whitehall Sultan.

Mr. Simonson is using a bull bred by Mitchell
Bros., Ontario, Canada. His sire is imp. Lochiel
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and his dam is by Rean Chief 361556. More fe-
males will be added by purchase and plans are
being laid for unprovements in methods of feed-
ing and handling. There are facilities here for
keeping a large herd and the foundation is on
hand for making a good one. The outlook for
suecess is increased by the fact that a son of the
family is strongly mnclined toward Shorthorns.
Fred Maninger, Harper.—Here are sixteen
well bred females by good bulls. Choice Echo
that did valuable service for Miss Stanley and
Bennington Bros.; White Sultan by Missie’s
Sultan and out of a Good Choiee cow; Scottish
Prince by imp. Lord Cowslip, dam by imp.
Scotchman and others of this class show the
cows well descended. The bull used was Hamp-
ton Archer by Mir. Babhb’s Silver Hampton out
of a cow by Captain Archer, own brother to
Sweet Mistletoe, dam of Lespedeza Collynie, In-
ternational grand champion in 1919. A splendid
white bull, Favorite 836696, was bought of John
Regier in December 1919. He is by Seoteh Cum-
berland, the execllent son of Cumberland Type,
most sensational show bull of his day and out of
Edelweiss 9th by Good News, shown three times
at state fairs and the winner of three firsts. It
eoes without saying that the use of sueh
bulls will, with proper care, make any herd good.
Marcel Duphorne, Harper.—<As I stood on the
street corner in the city of Harper, order book
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 383

in hand, talking to Mr. Potter, I chanced to men-
tion the matter of securing subscribers to A His-
tory of Shorthorns in Kansas. Mr. Duphorne,
banker and Shorthorn enthusiast, overheard
part of our conversation and before I had
finished he seized my book with the remark
‘77mm in on this if it’s for Shorthorns.’’ He filled
out and signed an order for ten copies.

When David Wohlsehlege] wanted an im-
ported bull and could not leave home to attend
the Carpenter & Ross sale, he sent Mr. Duphorne
as his representative. Does this banker know
Shorthorns? Take a look at imp. Bapton Dram-
atist (Wohlschlegel sketeh) and you will find
the answer.

Note.—Respectfully dedicated to hankers of
the Southwest.

Jesse Rork, Anthony.—Harper county is full
of new breeders and Mr. Rork is one of them. At
Miss Stanley’s 1918 sale he hought three cows.
Lady Lou by a son of imp. Count Violet is out of
a cow by imp. Trout Creek Clan Alpine. Roan
Aline, by a son of Captain Archer, has two fa-
mous bulls in the next two crosses, Winsome
Duke 11th and St. Valentine, sire of the unde-
feated Ruberta. Lady Waterloo is of similar
breeding. Later Mr. Rork secured a daughter
of Pleasant Dale, son of Maxwalton Averne, dam
of the $10000 2d Fair Acres Sultan and other
good ones. He has been using Miss Stanley’s

 
384 A TISTORY OF SHORTITORNS IN KANSAS

Seerct Robin, first prize bull at the Tarper
County Shorthorn show anda breeder of unusual
merit.

HARVEY COUNTY

E. J. Haury, Halstead.—Mr. Haury is in the
business to stay. This is evident when you talls
with him and especially when you look over his
eattle. Like nearly all Harvey county farm-
ers, he is heavily engaged in wheat growing,
but [T suspect he has the vision of the time when,
hy reason of natural law, live stock must be kept
on the land and he knows that the Shorthorn will
come into its own on practically every farm in
his locality.

The original purchases were made some years
ago, from good Kansas herds. The bull Abbots-
ford has left proof of satisfactory service and
another bull that left his mark was Monarch by
Crusader, one of the very best sons of Barmpton
Knight, a bull hberally used by Tomson Bros.
The Tomson bull Archer and Col. Harris’? Gal-
ahad also figure in the breeding of the herd.
Besides the females that have been on the farm
fora number of years, a recent addition of three
cows was made from Park HK. Salter, a
daughter of The Goods, J. Ro Kvans & Bros.’
well known bull, and two bred in Canada. Scott-
ish Maid 55th has great size and good form and
will attract attention any time. The smaller one,
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 385

Ramsden’s Jessie, a cow of medium size, nice
length, true top and bottom lines, short legs and
very breedy, impressed me as an especially valu-
able animal. The third, a big, smooth, roan daugh-
ter of Ingle Lad should, by virtue of inherit-
ance, be one of the best in the herd. She is out of
Syeamore Spiraea, one of the great cows in H.
M. Hill’s herd and a full sister to Prinee of Col-
lynie, one of the beefiest bulls and greatest sires
of useful Shorthorns I have ever known. The
cow 1s so good that ene can readily overlook a
plain horn and f would consider her very valu-
able asa foundation cow. Her bull calf by Mas-
ter of the Dales topped Park E. Salter’s voung
bull sale in 1917 and Mr. Haury is to be congra-
tulated on owning her.

The bull being used is known as Gus Villager,
a rean vearling by Village Glory, son of imp. Vil-
lager. His dam is Village Augusta by Village
Omeea, also a son of imp. Villager, second dam
by imp. Crescent Knight. When I saw him he
was in rather Hght flesh but he impressed me
favorably. He has enough size with length and
depth in right proportion and a good head and
neck.

At the 1920 Salter-Robison sale Mr. Haury
secured Fair Acres Blossom for $1850. She is
an elegant roan daughter of Fair Acres Sultan
and is well along in calf to imp. British Emblem.
She is a valuable addition to the choice lot of
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cows on hand, and calves from her, if well devel-
oped, should be in demand at strong prices. This
establishment is a ereat credit to Harvey county.

O. A. Homan & Sons, Peabody.—When Mr.
Tloman was a young man he worked twenty-
elelt months on a Shorthorn farm in TWlinois
and during this time he caught the spirit. THe
decided that as soon as he could, he would own a
good herd of Shorthorns. Tis chance came
twenty-five years ago when he began breeding
ina smnall way. Later he bought ten cows and
heifers of Col. Ed Green, then of Florenee. All
these cows were sired cither by imp. Ardlethen
Mystery or Double Champion and some of the
Ardlethen Mystery cows were carrying Double
Champion calves. It was a satisfactory pur-
chase, not only because of the quality of the
stock, but also because i imeluded cows that in
some cases were of the most desirable blood lines
of the day.

One of these cows was Pride of Greendale 2d
out of Village Pride by imp. Invincible. This
cow has mumerous descendants in the herd.
There are still on the farm six cows by Ardlethen
Mystery, two by imp. Aberdeen and two by
Double Champion. The Double Champion cows
have been a eood lot wherever [have seen them
and, being Fromeoa bull of merit and first-class
ancestry, they should be so. Double Champion
was by the champion, Choiee Goods, and his dam
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was Russella, the dam of the undefeated Ru-
berta. Three cows by the Hanna bred Victor
Hampton, a son of Hampton Spray, were added
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The bull used is White Hope. His sire is
Archer’s Victor, a son of the well known Tomson
bull, Archer, the sire of many excellent cattle
and numerous prize winners. His dam is by
Ingle Lad, a bull that in H. M. Hill’s herd sired
a lot of breeding cows, practically all of them
heavy milkers. His second dam was by Captain
Archer, J. F. Stodder’s sire of many prize win-
ners and full brother to Sweet Mistletoe that at
Lespedeza produced Inperial Mistletoe sold last
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year for $4100 and Lespedeza Collynie, 1919 Tn-
ternational grand champion. It will be seen that
White Hope’s sire, grandsire and great grand-
sire were all by imp. Collynie and he imparts to
Ins get the thick meatiness of the old bull, with
fine finish. Individually he is a good specimen
of a large Shorthorn bull, short-legged and of
fair finish, a beefy fellow, though not a show
bull.

The Homans have quite a record as developers
of young cattle. At the Wichita show and sale
of 1918 they sold a sixteen-anonth-old bull weigh-
ing 1550 pounds that topped the sale for bulls of
his age and the year before they had topped the
sale on heifer calves with a pair of ten-month-old
heifers. These heifers, according to the figures
furnished by Mr. Homan, made a gain of nearly
five pounds a day for some time. TL remember
seeing them and reeall that they were generally
mueh admired,

A. H. Taylor & Son, Sedgwick.—The Taylors
are located one and one-quarter miles west of
Briges Station on the Arkansas Valley interur-
ban between Wichita and Newton, Cars rn
every seventy-five minutes, giving visitors un-
usual opportunity for secing the herd,

This firm has Shorthorns mueh above the av-
erage insize, form and finish. The greater num-
ber are of blood lines such as would appeal even
tothe most particular. The foundation was laid
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 389

at the J. F. Stodder dispersion where one of the
cows purchased was Jeanie by Silvermine, Mr.
Stodder’s splendid son of Rosewood that sired
the great lot of heifers sold in the sale. Her dam
was by Victor of Evergreen Park 4th. This was
one of the Stodder show heifers and she had been
a winner all along the line. Splendid breed-
ing cows from her ave now in the herd. Another
cow 1s Orlena, a massive Tebo Lawn production
sired by the well known Victor Bashful out of a
dam by Duke of Oakland 2d. Knight’s Victoria,
one of the attractive things on the farm, is a big
roan by the Gentry bred Knight Templar. Her
sire was by Victorious, the Linwood bred son of
Lord Mayor. Knight’s Victoria was purchased
with a good heifer calf at foot by Hallwood
Model, a son of Choice Goods Model. Two desir-
able cows were added later, the last addition
having been a red bought at the 1919 Breeders
sale in Hutchinson. The herd bull is a son of
Searchlight, a nice roan and very much like the
best Searchlight bulls and he is satisfactory as a
breeder. His dain was by Prince Pavonia, the
son of imp. Glendale Pavonia.

The method of handling the cattle as practiced
by the Taylors is such as to develop the animal!
well, as may be seen in the size of the matured
cows, yet it is entirely practical and comy
tively inexpensive. Good pasture, alfalfa
eaveful handling, the prime requisites

  

 
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successful cattle growing in Kansas, are given
this herd. The cattle are kept in that condition
of growth and flesh that is best for the man who
buys them.

Mr. Taylor tells ne they grow Shorthorns as a
side line and sell their bulls readily when twelve
months old or younger at satisfactory prices.
The tari is in the heart of the wheat belt where
land sells high but they recognize the necessity of
raising cattle and if these Shorthorns, big, mas-
sive and smooth, are kept as a side line only, it
night be well for others to adopt their policy.
The Taylor operations, in the section where
Wheat Is growin as a main crop, should be an
object lesson to the farmers of central Kansas in
general. The farm has for years been used in
producing Percherons of high class and the same
energy and good management which contributed
to the successful production of horses will be
manifest in the production of Shorthorns.

G. O. Thomas, Walton.—Mr. Thomas bought a
Few females at the breeders sale in Peabody in
1918. They were principally from the Homan
consignment. One heifer is by the Homan-Wil-
son bull, White Tope, (see Toman sketeh) out
of acow by imp. Ardlethen Mystery. The others
ave of the same breeding as the Toman herd
which gives them a good infusion of very de-
sirable blood. Mr. Thomas has used White Tope,
mentioned above, until recently and has secured
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excellent results. Ife has just purchased a first-
class young bull whieh completes his herd.

JACKSON COUNTY

Ed Stegelin, Straight Creek.—Few, if any,
Kansas Shorthorn breeders are better known
than Ed Stegelin. He has been a fixture on the
big show circuits for a number of years and as
a winner he has excelled prominent exhibitors
and has carried off many blue and purple rib-
bons. It was about ten years ago that I first
met Mr. Stegelin at the Topeka fair. He was
there with a string of his cattle and the regular-
ity with which he took second and third places
was almost striking. He said little while awards
were being placed but after the show he re-
marked ‘*When I go out to show again, I will
have eattle that ean win first place.’? He meant
it and he carried out the resolve.

At My. Stegelin’s sale in 1918 the show herd
was dispersed and since then no showing has
been done. At the time of my visit to the farm in
July 1919 there were about forty females in the
herd and it was a rare treat to look them over.
Half of them are by the many tines grand cham-
pion bull, True Sultan, and every one of these
Tite Sultan heifers I saw was not only big but
was also finished from eid to end. The other
twenty cows are from excellent ancestry. Rose-
dale Charity is out of a dam by Prince Inperial,
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a son of Snowstorm out of a Royal Leader dam.
(See Sands sketch.) Snowstorm will be remem-
bered as a son of Snowflake, sire of Ringmaster,
the only bull that was ever three times Inter-
national grand champion.  Laneaster Lady is
by Red Archer, a son of Ceremonious Archer,
International grand champion im 1905. Her
dam is by Royal Rosewood by Royal Archer out
of imp. Rosewood 97th. An extraordinary two-
year-old is Sultana Waterloo by True Sultan.
Her dain is by Matchless Dale, sire of more In-
ternational prize winning steers than any other
bull of any breed, Hving or dead. Fler second dam
is by Orange Lavender by Lavender Viceroy fol-
lowed by imp. Master of the Rolls. Another
splendid white yearling heifer by True Sultan
is True’s Princess out of a dam by Searchlight,
second dam by Prince Pavonia, a line of breed-
ing that should make her a good producer. There
were also on the farm two imported females.
Mayflower Maid is a three-year-old roan, bred
by Robert Bruce, and her maternal ancestry is
of Bruce breeding for ten generations. ITer sire,
Golden Primrose, was bred by Durno. Mr.
Stegehn had also made a purchase of cight fe-
males of very choice breeding which had not yet
reached the farm.

The first high-class bull used was Orange Lad
2d and still it remained a proposition to eet a
bull as good as was desired. At the International
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in 1912 a white from the famous J. H. Miller
herd of Peru, Ladiana, struck Mr. Stege-
lin’s fancy. John Tomson assisted in looking
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#950. With transportation charges of $36 he
arrived at Straight Creek. This was True Sul-
tan, a bull that did for Mr. Stegelin what Baron
Vietor did for Col. Harris, Gallant Knight for
Tomsous and Collynie for Mr. Hanna. He was
rarely, if ever, defeated in the show ring and he
put the Stcegelin herd among the tops of the
classes. He was by Sultan of Anoka, a son of
Whitehall Sultan out of imp. Lady in Waiting.
His dam was by Marshall of the Mound in whose
ancestry is found near the top four famous
Shorthorns—imp. Craven Knight and imp.
Princess Alice through their son Young Marshall
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and Mary Abbotsburn 7th, the most wonderful
cow in Ainerica and a daughter of Young Abbots-
burn, possibly the greatest show bull of any
breed in America.

The show record of the Stegelin herd covered
three seasons and in that time the cattle were ex-
hibited at Burlington and Des Moines, Lincoln,
Topeka, Hutchinson and Oklahoma City. In
these shows they won 134 firsts, 22 seconds, 19
thirds, 8 fourths, and 3 fifths, 42 championships
and 27 grand championships. In 1914 at the
Nebraska State Fair, True Sultan was made re-
serve Champion over all breeds.

A pleasing feature of the work on Mr. Stege-
lin’s farm is the spirit of co-operation shown by
and with the two sons of the family, ten and
twelve years old, who own several of the best
things in the herd. The boys plan to be ready to
buy farms, when they shall need them, with the
proceeds from their cattle. Mr. Stegelin thinks
with the start the boys now have there is hardly
a question of thei being able to buy and pay for
a quarter section of rich Jackson county land by
the time they are twenty-one.

Tom Bottom, Soldier.—One must meet Mr.
Bottom to appreciate him. Tle is one of the most
enthusiastic Shorthorn men FE have known and
Tam sure that when you have been with him an
hour you will feel as rested as after a stummer va-
eation. Tere is a big farm with plenty of fine
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pasture, plenty of alfalfa and a disposition to
grow good Shorthorus that allows no thought of
failure. Ma. Bottom is not thinking of the neat,
tidy, round, little type, easily fattened on grain,
but of the bie, smooth, massive kind that can 20
out and graze to the best advantage, then winter
well on the farm feeds.

Coustant iuaprovement is being planned for
the herd and it is no mean one that meets the
visitor’s eve at this time. With few exceptions
the cows are large and of correct Shorthorn type,
and they are producing calves that are being
well suckled and are growing into good cattle. As
T recall it, practically every cow in the herd was
suckling a calf or would produce one shortly.
This is no doubt largely due to the common-
sense inethod of keeping them neither fat nor
lean, just thrifty. In general the breeding is
very snnilar to that in Mr. Clement’s herd.

Kansas Pride, a large, attractive roan comes
from Loch Bros. Her sire Walnut Duke, is a
Bellows bred son of Hampton’s Successor out of
a Victorallan dam. Her dam represents Good
Choice and Merry Hampton. A Tomson bred
daughter of Barmpton Knight is out of a dam by
the Harris bred Vanquish, a son of Galahad, sire
of Gallant Raneht. This cow has been an exeel-
lent breeder and her bull calves have all sold at
good prices before being old enough to wean. She
is now suckling a nice heifer. Another attractive
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roan is Walnut Glen Girl by Seoteh Goods.
Three of her heifers in the herd are fine speei-
mens of the breed, one of them, a yearling by
Orange Lad, beg an especially admirable pros-
pect fora big, smooth, breeding cow.

The herd bull bears the gentlemanly name of
My. Marshal. He was bred by Tomson Bros. and
Mr. Bottom says he was the best young bull in
the bunch when he was there and that is why be
bought him. Really he is a good one, in fact, I
have seen few bulls in my rounds that impressed
me more favorably. He is a beautiful roan, a
show yard type and out of a cow by Barmp-
ton Knight. Later when I visited James Tom-
son I saw the mother and grandmother of this
bull. They were not only two of the best cows in
the herd but Mr. Tomson said they were among
the very best bull producers on the farm. One
of these two cows is the dam of Marshal’s Crown,
the outstanding Village Marshal bull retained
for service in the Tomson herd. That Mr. Mar-
shal will be a satisfactory breeder is indicated in
a letter received from Mr. Bottom July 18, 1920
in which he says ‘‘T have thirty of the best ealves
in Kansas.”’

Ivan Clements, Havensville.—I saw a number
of cows and some ealves here whieh Mia. Clem-
ents said were fairly representative of the herd
ane they were real Shorthorns. They combine
plenty of size with good finish, several of them
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being very attractive and they would be credit-
able specimens in any herd. Plenty of roughage
including alfalfa, and pasture, are the feeds
which have done the work. |

The purchase of foundation stock descended
from a line of good bulls gives a clue to the sue-
cess of things. The earliest purchases are in the
main representative of such bulls as D. P. Nor-
ton’s British Lion, Clay & Winn’s Golden Victor
Alex Fraser’s Crown Prince of Lawndale and
15th Duke of Hilldale, Purdy Bros.’ Lord
Champion, V. R. Ells’ Godwin, Harriman
Bros.’*Proud Monarch and New Goods, Kelly
Bros.’ Banning, John MeCovy’s Pride of Col-
lynie, Tomsons’ Barmpton Knight, Bellows

3ros.’? Good Choice and Merry Hampton and
Peculated Wild Eyes, two of the breed’s great
bulls to which no special individual can lay claim.
It is only natural that cows descended from such
a line of bulls and given a chance for de-
velopment should be Inghly satisfactory in a
breeding herd.

One among the best cows that I saw is a big
roan, Augusta by name. Her sire is by Pride of
Collynie, a full brother to Mistletoe 15th, dam of
the 1919 International grand champion. She is
suckling a big, lusty calf and will easily weigh
1600 pounds on grass alone. Another excellent cow
is Alma Rose 4th bred by Loch Bros. of Nebraska.
She is by Seotch Goods, a son of Good Choice,
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out of a Merry Hampton dam. Ther dam is by
Peeulated Wild Hyes and her second dam is the
grandam of Barmpton Kanght. Kelly Bros.
are represented in the herd by a good two-year-
old by Scotch Monareh, a grandson of imp. Lord
Bantl, while Dr. Harkey ’s herd furnished Duech-
ess of Oxford 2d, by Baron Cumberland. The
dain of this heifer was Mr. Fraser’s Duchess of
Independence. She unites through her maternal
ancestry the nghest priced family of Shorthorns
the world has ever produced with bulls of modern
Scotch breeding and type and no one who has ob-
served closely would deny the profitable re-
sults of such crossing.

The herd bull, a bie, thiek fellow, is Warwick
452253, bred by Babst Bros. Eis sire is the Tom-
son bred Donald 359930. Tis dam is by Ingle-
side For Me, an clegant white used by T. P.
Babst and sired by Rosewood, a son of imp. In-
elewood and imp. Roseleaf by Scottish Archer,
the best of Mr. Duthie’s many great bulls. Mr.
Clements is also freely using Mr. Bottom’s ex-
ecllent bull. (See Bottom: sketeh. )

C. P. Humphrey, Denison.—Mr. Ilumphrey,
a banker owning and operating a farm, made his
start with a cow bred by Mis. A. G. Devlin and
from her he raised four heifer calves. has cow
was by Lord Butterfly by Golden Vietor Jr, out
of 8th Butterfly of Valley Grove by Lord Mayor.
Her dam was by My Lord, son of imp. Spartan
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Hero and imp. Lady of the Meadow followed by
two crosses of imp. Thistletop. Later a nice
ly bred cow from J. C. Stone was added
and several of her descendants are now on the
farm.

Well bred bulls have been used. An extra
good one was Modern Scotchman by imp. Ma-
genta, out of Vietoria Butterfly by Victoria
Baron. Another was Orange Cumberland by
Dale’s Cumberland out of a Lavender Viceroy
dam. This bull stood third as a calf in a strong
ring at the American Royal. The present herd
bull was secured at the 1919 Ogden sale. He
is a roan almost a year old and looks like the
making of a good one. His sive Type’s Lord is
by Cumberland’s Type out of a dam by Cumber-
land’s Last. He is out of a cow by imp. Mu-
tineer and she is a daughter of imp. Bapton
Magnet by Silver Plate. My. Humphrey’s farm
is a rich one with much alfalfa land. It is
located where Shorthorns have no active compe-
tition and where all conditions favor their best
development.

J. W. Waynant, Holton.—There are few be-
einners who are as discriminating in their pur-
chases and who are giving their cattle sueh
care as is Mr. Waynant. His farm is splendidly
located with pastures, fine water and soil that
will grow any kind of forage. Since proper feed-
ine and care go with animal husbandry here
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one Inay expect a splendid herd to be pro-
duced as a result of these conditions.

I have seen four of the five females in the
herd and there is little room for adverse eriti-
cism of these cows. An unusually large and well
matured three-year-old bred by Henry Kupper
of Nebraska would attract attention anywhere.
She is by imp. Scottish Sentinel and her dam is
by imp. Strowan Star. A yearling heifer from
this cow is quite pleasing and a two-weeck-old
heifer calf by Superior Rosedale makes her pur-
chase a fortunate investment.

The herd bull, Superior Rosedale, was bred by
Howell Rees. He is by the grand champion,
Whitehall Rosedale, and his dam is by Superi-
mint, a grandson of Mr. Duthie’s ereat Pride of
Morning, second dam by a son of Pride of Morn-
ing. With one exception he is the heaviest and
most massive bull of his age I have seen in
twenty-two eounties. He was junior champion
at Topeka in a big show and this fairly indicates
his form and quality. The voune calves by him
are promising.

Geo. Zeller, Meriden.—Mr. Zcller is a young
man who a few years ago came to the eonelu-
sion that there would be no room in his plans for
serub or nondescript stock. As a result of such
decision he bought four Shorthorn cows from
which he has raised a creditable httle herd. Two
of these cows came from Lowa and one, bred by
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 401

John E. Smith, was sired by Parson’s Proud
Duke, a son of the well known Victor Baron out
of a dam by Duke of Oakland. Later several
cows were secured from Dr. F. M. Marks of
Valley Falls. They were by Choice Lancaster, a
son of C. H. White’s show bull, Richelieu, a state
fair and American Royal winner, and were out
of nicely bred dams.

The herd bull is medium in size, compact and
smooth, He is by the Bellows bred, Double Dia-
mond, whose sire and dam were both by the
champion, Diamond Goods. He is out of a
cow by Modern Scotchman, a well known son of
np. Magenta. The calves by this bull indicate
progress in the right direction. Mr. Zeller, with
good accommodations for cattle, plenty of en-
thusiasm and a well defined idea of what he
wants, should be a success.

F. B. Arnold, Holton.—Mr. Arnold has a very
creditable herd of fifteen cows and practically
all were suckling good ealves when I saw them.
They have fair size, ave straight-lined and
snooth and are the kind of cows that if bred to a
first-class big, thick bull can be depended upon
for satisfactory results. Among high-class bulls
appearing in the three top crosses are Archer
Boy by Ballechin Archer, a son of Ceremonious
Archer; Modern Seotchman by imp. Magenta,
dam by Victoria Baron; George Cook by My
Lord, dam by Lord Mayor; Rosedale by
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Avondale out of imp. Rosebud 2d; Violet Lad by
Golden Lad, son of Golden Rule; Village Lad,
son of Village Boy by Bapton Sovereign; Vie-
tor’s Baronet, a son of the noted Baronet and
others of like ancestry. These show the line of
breeding from whieh the cows come. A
straight-lined, smooth bull heads the herd. Tle
has sired an exeellent lot of calves that speak
better than anything else could both for him and
for the milking qualities of the cows.

Joe L. Evans, Holton.—There are about
twenty-five females in this herd and they are sat-
isfactory breeders or splendid prospects for
such. The eows are suckling well and produe-
ing good calves. They are of medium size and
the conditions under which the herd is beme
kept have been such that they will respond well
to liberal farm eare instead of going down as 1s
the case where forcing has been practiced. Mr.
Evans is working a eradual betterment in
methods of handling and by the use of high-class
bulls he will be able to keep up improvement im
the cattle. The present herd bull was bred by J.
W. Dawdy and seems to be a suecess, as indi-
eated by the calves.

H. J. Haag, Holton.—Mr. Haag has set out
to produce a good Shorthorn herd, his idea he-
ing to correct mistakes he may make by aveid-
ine them in the future. The females come from
Theo. Olson & Sons of Leonardville. Two of
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 403

these are by Defender, a son of Barmpton
Knight, out of a cow by Sir Charming 4th. The
dam of these cows is by St. Valentine 12th, one
of the sons of the great St. Valentine, and
their grandam is by 86th Duke of Wildwood, a
son of the noted show bull, Golden Victor. An-
other Defender cow comes through Athenian
Coronet 4th by imp. Bapton Coronet and her
dam is by Prime Minister by imp. Prince of
Perth. Both Athenian Coronet 4th and Prime
Minister were well known in Andrew Pringle’s
herd. The bull on the farm at the time of my
visit was not up to the desired standard but he
will be replaced by a better one as soon as a
change can be made. Mr. Haag lives near Mr.
Waynant and will use Superior Rosedale until
he secures a satisfactory bull of his own.

J. Mack, Soldier—Mr. Mack has a herd of
fifty-five cows and he has been breeding for
twelve years. His original purchase was made
from Henry Haub and the entire herd is de-
seended from this purchase. The method of
handling has been to grow the cattle on the ordin-
ary farm feeds without effort to secure extraor-
dinary growth, vet to make conditions such as
to develop fair size. Mr. Mack tells me that the
dry cows and non-breeders sent to market have
weighed about 1400 pounds. Bulls have been
purchased from Knox of Missouri, Merriam of
Topeka, Brown of Onaga and Rolf of Whitmore.
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The present sire is Sunlight, used by H. 8. An-
derson, a ton bull and a good breeder. Loeal de-
mand has taken all the bulls and for the past two
scasons the heifer calves have also been sold at
satisfactory prices. Mr. Mack is inaugurating
a system of culling out and improving by seles-
tion but the general plan outlined above will be
earried on. THe expects to stay in the business
permanently.

Arthur Steward, Mayetta.—I found Mr.
Steward’s cattle much better than he had told
me they were. Among the twenty cows on the
farm are some first-rate ones and while the
herd, as a whole, is not up to the high standard
he desives, his is one of the most hopeful eases I
have found. Mr. Steward says he had not been
using good chough bulls in the past so he went
toTomson Bros. and bought one and while T did
not inspect the bull closely, he impressed me as
heing one among the best T have seen recently.
He isa white by Village Marshal. His dam is by
the Harding bred) Sultan’s Commander by
Whitehall Sultan and his erandam earries a
strong infusion of Forbes’ Baron Gloster. The
cows are from standard American families and
are nicely Scotch topped, and the ealves from
this bull will undoubtedly prove very desir
able.

Mr. Steward has plenty of pasture and alfalfa
land and he is planning to eull over his females
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 405

and add a few to his best. When this is done
he will have a toppy Shorthorn herd.

E. T. Ralston, Holton.—Twelve years ago Mr.
Ralston bought a cow of Henry Haub and from
this purchase he has sold $5000 worth of stock
and has ten cows left. He gives his Shorthorns
ordinary farm care, using them to produce milk
and butter and to raise calves. By this method
he can not raise the highest type of beef cattle
but he is producing good, profitable farm cattle
that solve the problem of keeping cows on high
priced land and Mr. Ralston’s Shorthorns are of
the size and quality of many others where no at-
tention is paid to milking.

Wm. Wischmeier, Mayetta——Mr. Wischmeier
does not expect to produce an outstanding herd
but he is confident that he can raise good farm
cattle by way of the Shorthorn route. His
foundation stock came from the herd of H. C.
Graner in Atchinson county which carries as-
surance of both quality and breeding. These
cows combine the blood of Modern Scotchman,
frequently alluded to in these sketches and Sym-
phony’s Last, a bull of great worth in Mr.
Graner’s herd. The herd bull comes from D.
C. VanNice, is out of a good cow and by a son
of True Sultan.

L. A. Trundle, Holton.—Mr. Trundle has de-
cided that he ean not afford to keep the common
kind of cows on high priced land and even
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though he keeps only a few and uses them to pro-
duce milk and butter for the family, they had as
well be good nuilking Shorthorns. He plans to
stay in the business, using the Shorthorn cows
as outlined above, and expects to produce pure
bred eattie much more profitably than grades.

JEFFERSON COUNTY

H. E. Huber, Meriden.— ‘I was born on this
farm and have lved here all my hfe and my shoes
have seldom been free from Shorthorn fertil-
izer,’’ My. Huber told me not long ago. In 1884,
when eighteen years old, he began the business
on his own account and he now has a herd of
nearly sixty females. They are medium in size
and smooth, with quality. The young stoek is
well fed, better than in the past and as a result
more size will be attaimed in the future.

The show ring has not tempted Mr. Hower
often but in 1918 and again in 1919 he took a few
head to Valley Falls and both vears won the
female championship. He was a contributor to
the Hiawatha sale in 1919 and to the 1919 Ameri-
ean Royal sale. Three choicely bred cows were
added to the herd by purchase in 1919. Several
public sales have been held in these thirty-five
years and the herd has beeome well known
through a large part of the state.

There are cows 1a the herd that in point of
merit and breeding would be a credit almost
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 407

anywhere. Amone these are Orange Lass by
Fair Acres Stamp, a son of the noted sire Fair
Acres Sultan out of Orange Blossom 36th 108985.
dfler dam is by Bapton Valentine, a son of imp.
Bapton Arrow, the outstanding bull owned by
W. R. Nelson and later by W. A. Forsythe & Son.
Butterfly Lady is by a son of Crusader, one of
the best sons of Barmipton Kinght and her dam
is by Butterfly Goods by Silk Goods. Silk Goods
Violet, a four-vear-old, 1s by Silk Goods and out
of Lord Marr’s Violet by Lord Marr, the son of
Lord Mayor and imp. Marigold 50th, second dam
Seottish Violet 4th by Golden Lad, a son of Rob-
ert Miller’s Golden Rule.

About twenty years ago, Golden Crown by
Golden Victor Jr., later used extensively by H.
M. Hill, was in service. The dam of Golden
Crown was Ith Butterfly of Valley Grove by
Lord Mayor. The Sultan 227277 came from
F. L. Hackler and had for sire imp. Day-
dreams Pride. His dam was by Lord Thistle, a
well known Mastin bred son of Baron Ury. Silk
Gocds is the bull most heard of now in connee-
tien with Mr, Huber’s herd. He was bred by Col.
Casey and is nearly fourteen years old. Alex
Fraser bought him as a yearling at Tebo Lawn
aud after siring a magnificent lot of roan heifers
he was sold by Mrs. Fraser in the 1910 sale. He
is of royal descent, being by Choice Goods out
of Lassie of Tebo Lawn by Duke of Oakland 2d,
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second dam Golden Lassie by Gaveston out of
imp. Golden Hair, Proud Sultan, a Tomson bred
son of Beaver Creck Sultan, was used for two
seasons and excellent results were secured from
hin. Reeently Ma. Tuber has gratified his am-
bition to own an unported bull and the white,
Linperator, was purchased. He is a big, smooth,
stretchy yearling that looks ke the making of a
first-class sive.

Mitchell Bros., Valley Falls.——The sixty fe-
males in the Mitchell herd range im size from
medium to large. It is the mtention of the
proprietors to Huprove conditions in order to
scenve better development each sueceeding sea-
m. The start was made in 1914 by purchases
from EH. EB. Huber and other loeal breeders.

In looking over the pedigrees I found an unus-
ual number of noted bulls appearing in the top
evosses. Among them were Barmpton Knight,
one of the best ever used im the ‘Tomson
herd; My Lord out of amp. Lady of the Meadow ;
Mellowhide by Mr. Hanna’s Prince Royal cut
of a dam by Captain Areher, own brother to
Sweet Mistletoe, dam of the International evand
champion in W919; Silk Goods, excellent son of
the champion, Choice Goods, now at twelve vers
doing service for TH. KH. Huber; KFalsetto, the out-
standing sire in Alex Fraser's herd where his

Li

eet from Bates bred cows looked like real Cruiek-
shanks; Modern Scotchman, used with great
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 409

profit by John MeCoy and next to Collynie’s
Pride one of his best bulls; Sir Knight by Golden
Kuight out of imp. Sorrel by Roan Gauntlet;
np. Thistletop, a great sire in the Babst and
Tomson herds; imp. Salamis, the Cruickshank
bull used by ©. C. Norton; Crown Prince of
Lawndale, the Bates Scotch son of Prince Royal,
son of imp. Craven Knight and imp. Princess
Alice and many others of high rank.

It is only natural that a herd built on this
kind of foundation should possess individual
merit which will be transmitted with reasonable
certainty. Kansas Girl by a son of Victor Arch-
ey is one of the best cows in the herd. She has
a number of desirable heifers on the farm and
her dam is still an excellent producer. It is a
real pity that more attention has not been given
to the production of such cows as Empress of
Oxford 4th, the Fraser bred daughter of Fal-
setto. She is large and is a good looker as a beef
cow, she is a great breeder, a heavy milker, and
is the dam of the best and highest priced bull sold
in the Jefferson County Breeders Sale in 1919.
A herd like Empress of Oxford 4th would enrich
any owner who gave his cattle care. Her heifers
are staying in the herd.

The Mitchells have recently bought a first-
class bull of the Kansas State Agricultural Col-
lege. Matchless Dale, the superb sive of show
steers and Bessie’s Pride, an outstanding beef
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cow with a imilk record of more than S000
pounds, are sire and dam of the young bull that
should be able to qualify for blue ribbons any-
where. . Not only should he show well, but he
should sire bulls and heifers that will carry
along the greatest features of the breed, first-
class beef cattle and cows that are heavy milkers.

Dr. M. F. Marks, Valley Falls—Dr. Marks
has been in the Shorthorn business for ten years.
He has two distinet objects in view, wuformity
in type and color and the maintainance of
milking quality. The color is dark red and the
type is that of the Shorthorn cow of medimn size,
straight lines and a good development of udder.
This herd is quite true to the standards he has set
and consists of about fifty females.

The original purchases were made from local
breeders, principally from E. Kaufman and J.
J. Wreeland and the bulls used have, in the main,
come from good herds and have represented good
breeding. Two of the best sires in use were
Sceotehman 331565 and Choice Lancaster 364763,
the latter bred by C. H. White and sired by his
show bull, Richecheu, an American Royal prize
winner anda son of The Choice of All. The eaws
by these two bulls indicate they were satisfactory
breeders. Double Diamond by Diamond Goods,
dain by Diamond Goods, has left some nice young
thines that are especially pleasing in head, neck
and horn. The present herd bull is Chipper Dale
A HISTORY Of SHORTLLORNS IN KANSAS 411

692047 Dred by Thos. Stanton of Ilinois. His
sire is Sittytou Sultan’s Dale by Avondale out of
a Whitehall Sultan cow. His dam is by Archer’s
Hope by Nonpareil Archer 236802 out of Rosa
Hope 16th by Royal Prince.

John W. Sherwood, Dunavant.*—It is a real
inspiration to look over the big, smooth, elegaut-
ly finished cows on this farm. The foundation
was bought at the Fraser sale in 1911 and it was
an excellent offering. Under Mr. Sherwood’s
care the cattle have gained, it seems to me, and
T shall evedit this fact to his accidental purchase
of a high-class bull. Nonpareil Avondale, a son
of Avondale, was a red of 1906 and as an aged
bull he virtually made the Sherwood herd what
it is. Notwithstanding this, he cost less than a
cheap bull would now.

There ave ninetecn females in this herd. Good
eave is given and natural conditions favor devel-
opment. Empress of Oxford 3d, a daughter of
Falsetto, the ereat sire in the Fraser herd, and
representing on her dam’s side the highest-class
families of cattle of any breed in the world’s his-
tory and on her sire’s sides the best lines of mod-
ern Scotch Shorthorns, is stil producing excel-
lent calves. Ter daughter, Little Hinpress by
Nonpareil Avondale, is also an outstanding cow.
While the bull new used is a good one, yet in com-
parison with his predecessor he can not be

 

Telephone, Winchester.
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seriously considered ; still this is not a reflection
on him. Ile was the first prize bull at the show
held in connection with a sale in Jefferson
country and he topped the sale, an honor which
was very worthily bestowed.

John A. Yost, Perry.—Mr. Yost is building up
a herd from a small start made three years ago.
Two of his good cows are Kate’s Pride 9th and
Wildeyes. Kate’s Pride 9th is by Baronet of
Maine Valley bred by Chandler Jordan, the
breeder of Mr. Saunder’s great bull, Cumber-
land. Wildeyes is by Scotchman’s Model and
her dain is froin the Fraser herd and by Falsetto.
The herd bull is Golden Orange 738541.

JOHNSON COUNTY

Andy J. James & Sons, Lenexa.*—Sonie years
ago [ formed the acquaintance of Col. James and
since that time [ had thought of him as a sue-
cessful auctioneer with a leaning toward farm
life and Shorthorns. This opinion was true ina
very small sense only. It was my pleasure to be
the guest of Col. and Mrs. James and to get an
insight ito farming and farm life within view of
a big city. Picture a 400 acre farm of the verv
choicest land, ina rich part of Kansas, the com-
mereial value of which is casily $300 per acre,
every acre of which will grow alfalfa or great

One and one-half miles from Overland Park on Strang (inter-
urban) Line.
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blue grass. It lies four and one-half miles from
the corporate limits of Kansas City and about
ten miles from the Union depot. To me, this
farm of rolling land and rich valleys was rest-

 

 

 

 

COL, ANDY J. JAMES

ful almost beyond comparison. This is Meadow-
brook Stock Farm.

The James family consists of two grown sons
and one daughter. The sons are not only splendid
specimens of manhood but they promise to de-
velop into real Shorthorn breeders. Both Col.
and Mrs. James are in the prime of life and to
be a guest in their home is a real pleasure.

But this is to be the story of Shorthorns on the
farm. The eattle are a worthy lot and are going to
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be better im the near future. The herd was estab-
lished twenty-one years ago, but the present herd
comes from purchases made from Alex Fraser,
representing Prince Royal 2d, Falsetto and Silk
Goods, on the great foundation of cows, nearly
all coming from George Allen. A later addition
to the herd was a lot of cows bought from Adams
and Grant that were sived by the excellent bull,
Kingdom Come. This bull was a son of Fair
Goods, out of a daughter of the noted Young
Nominee. There were also added some cows by
Villager Valentine, a good son of the great Vil-
lager and a few by Baron Marr and Lord Banff
2d came from the H. EK. Hayes herd. Recently
there have been purchased a few daughters of
Prince Valentine 4th, recognized as one of the
hest bulls in the state.

Good bulls have been consistently used. A Me-
Dermott bred son of Fair Goods, one from Bro-
naugh by Clara’s Choice and a nice, smooth roan
now in use coming from Kleming Bros. were
all of choice breeding. The herd has num-
bered a hundred head but recent sales have
redueed it to less than one-half that number.
Col, James is planning additions by purchase
shortly and these are to be strietly high-class rep-
resentatives of the breed.

A suitable bull to head such a herd is already
on the farm. He is a roan of September 1918
and bred by F. A. Gillespie & Sons. Tis sire,
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Roan Lord sold for $10000 at the Gillespie dis-
persion and was considered by many the most
valuable bull in the sale. He is by the noted Car-
penter & Ross sire, Maxwalton Revolution and
out of Maxwalton Roan Lady, the greatest cow
of her day in America. I saw this year-
hng bull as a ten-month-old calf. He was
very massive and though not at all in high
flesh he weighed 814 pounds and impressed me
as one of the very best herd bull prospects I have
seen. As much as a bull calf could suggest resem-
blance to a cow, he recalls Maxwalton Roan
Lady with her almost incomparable wealth of
real meat and fine finish. It seems safe to pre-
dict that this young fellow, having lis great an-
cestry and his individual merit, could hardly fail
to become a good sire.

Frank X. Kelly, Gardner.*—Mr. Kelly suc-
ceeded Kelly Bros. and is one of the best known
breeders in eastern Kansas. It is his aim to work
a constant Improvement and he is rapidly get-
ting together a Shorthorn herd worthy of his
best efforts. The first public sale was held at
Ottawa June 6, 1919 when fifty head sold at an
average of about $300. A notable feature of this
sale was the very hberal support given by the
Johnson county neighborhood.

In general the original purchase of females
did not differ materially from those found in

Three-quarters mile west of Clare station on Santa Fe.
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other herds in Johnson county. TH consisted
of good rehable cattle carrying in the top crosses
the best blood of the breed as introduced by Col.
Harris, H. E. Hayes, C. F. Wolf and others.
This brought in the blood of imp. Lord Bantl,
Young Abbotsburn, Violet) Kiight, imp. Col-
lyvinie, Kinnear, Sir Charming 4th, British Eton,
Peculated Wild Eyes, Lord Champion and Bar-
on Sussex and was surely a foundation good
enough for any future operations. Besides these
cows, a number of which are still on the farm,
additions have been made by purchase that
should put Mr. Kelly ina leading position as 2
breeder.

At Park EK. Salter’s 1919 Wichita sale, the
Kellys bought the clegant roan yearling, Laven-
der 48th for $2000. This was doubtless the best
heifer in the sale and her sire, Rosewood Dale, is
the well known son of Avondale now owned by
John B. Potter. Ther dam is the Hdwards, Can-
ada bred Lavender Leaf by Prince of Orange,
second dam, by imp. Cyclone, by Star of Destiny,
ason of Star of Morning. hey also bought two
other strietly high-class young cows, both bred
to the $10000 2d Fair Acres Sultan. One is by
the Gerlaugh bred Morning Flash. Wer dam,
Missic May by Pride of Morning, is out of imp.
Missie 139th. With this cow was secured a roan
heifer ealf by Overlook Flash.

It takes a high-class bull to head a good cow
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herd and in Lavender Stamp Mr. Kelly has such
a one. He has plenty of size, is very straight-
hned, smooth and well fleshed and stands close
to the ground. His head and neck are almost
ideal and he makes a fine impression at first
sight. The best imported bull in the Salter-Rob-
ison 1920 sale was Kinochtry Ensign. This bull
was secured by Mr. Kelly and will be used on the
Lavender Stamp heifers. He was bred by J. P.
Sym. His sire is Kingston of Edgecote and his
dam is an excellent cow by the famous Collynie
Cupbearer. He is large for his age, is very strong
in the back and has an elegant coat of hair.

The objective in Mr. Kelly’s operations is to
produce cattle of good size, but not extremely
large, that are typical Shorthorns in appearance
as well as in the most valuable characteristics of
the breed.

Murdoch Bros., Edgerton.—These men im-
pressed me very much as being what is usually
termed coming breeders. Their local conditions
favor the production of cattle and I saw the
evidenee of their ability in a herd of grade
Shorthorns, better in size and quality than many
pure breds. They have unbounded enthusiasm
and, with their previous successful experience,
will, no doubt, be able to put up an excellent
Shorthorn herd. The foundation which consists
of a half-dozen females and a bull was wisely laid
and makes a favorable impression on the visitor.
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In the herd is a niece roan cow, Winsome, bred
by and bought of C. H. White of Burlington.
Her sire is Harding, a son of imp. Collynic, out
of Sittytou Sarcasm 3d by imp. Bapton Magnet.
Her dam is by imp. Conqueror and her second
dam is by the grand champion, Viscount of An-
oka. On the farm is also a yearling heifer out
of this cow by Happy Choice that is quite attrac-
tive and promising. Another good one is V.
V. Orange Blossom by Sultan Champion, a son
of the well known Whitehall Sultan bull, Sultan
Mine. ITer dam is by a son of Avondale out of a
daughter of Archer’s Sunray. Fain Acres Sul-
tan, one of the most popular bulls of the breed,
comes dito the herd through Violet Queen, a
daughter of Regal Sultan. This heifer gives
every promise of developing well and her splen-
did ancestry should make her a valuable breed-
ing proposition. Violet Princess, by Choice
Knight, a son of Good Kanght and imp. Honey-
flower 2d and out of a dam by Good Kiieht, com-
pletes the ist of females with whieh Murdoch
Bros. made their start.

The bull being used is by Maxwalton Rose-
dale, a son of Avondale and imp. Rosewood
Pride. This dam is by Gallant Knight, sire of
dozens of prize winners at the big shows. This
second dam is imp. Clara 59th by Princely
Victor. Mis bull is a big one with a deep, thickly
covered body. Tle is much the type of Whitehall
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Rosedale, a full brother to his sire and for three
years grand champion at leading western state
fais and the American Royal. Murdoch Bros.
figure rightly that it is better to pay out a
little more money at the first in order to begin
with good Shorthorns than to buy a cheap
lot and gradually improve. They were fortunate
in securing a nice lot of heifer calves which gives
them a good start toward putting up a real herd.

C. S. Catlin & Son, Olathe.—This herd of cows
lnpressed me very favorably. They are large and
smooth, close to the ground and thick-fleshed.
Their breeding is of the kind that has produced
so many excellent cattle, a crossing of choice
Bates cows with thick Scotch bulls. The herd is
largely descended from one cow, Kirklevington
Duchess of L. Her sire and dam were both bred
by Geo. Alen & Sons and her grandam was imp.
Kirklevington Lady by the famous 2d Duke of
Weatherby. Winsome Magnet 6th, one of the
best cows, 1s by Matchless Avon by Matchless
Dale, the great son of Avondale, that at thirteen
vears old is still string valuable cattle at
the Kansas State Agricultural College. The
dam of this cow was by Roan Choice a son of C.
J. Wood’s prize winning Roan Hero. Winsome
Magnet is a Matchless Dale type and the other
cows in the herd are very similar to her in con-
formation.

The bull is a big, straight, thick fellow, not a
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show bull, but one of the kind that usually gives
proper account of himself as a breeder. His
calves are all that could be desired. He is by
Reporter, one of the well known and excellent
Polled Shorthorn bulls. The Catlins have a
single object in view and that is the production
of first-class Shorthorns. The herd receives
good feed and good care, the owners doing the
rustling instead of allowing the cattle to do it.
Dr. W. C. Harkey, Lenexa.—Dr. Harkey
comes before the reader with a reputation as one
of the best feeders in Johnson county and, having
a good lot of breeding stock, it 1s needless to
say that the herd is good. He has been raising
pure breds for nine years and has been using
pure bred bulls on a high grade herd for thirty
years. His cows came from Alex Fraser, E.
Ogden & Son, T. J. Sands, the Bronaughs and
Col. Andy James. Dr. Harkey was not a man
who would deliberately buy any inferior animals
and as these are all creditable herds it is evident
that a start was made with desirable females.
The other half of the herd on the Harkey farm,
the bull, is good. He is Realm’s Count 2d, a
Leonard bred son of Wooddale Stamp. His dam
is a daughter of the International ehampion,
Lavender Viscount, and she is one of the Leon-
ard Fancy of Ardmore cows. Realm’s Count 2d
won first prize and was made grand champion
bull at the 1917 Central Show, his full brother
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having won the same honor in 1919. This bull is
exceptionally low down, deep-bodied, thick-
fleshed, good in general conformation and quite
pleasing in appearance. In Dr. Harkey’s judg-
ment, based on early results, he will be very satis-
factory asa sire. The Harkey cattle are kept in
a locality where blue grass grows at its best and
supplies succulent feed the greater part of the
year.

W. F. Kerr, Olathe.—Mv. Kerr is a new breed-
er who has made a beginning with the right
kind of stock and who by reason of environment
will be able to make a success of Shorthorns. One
of his best purchases is the massive roan cow,
Queen Lil, that weighs about 1800 pounds in
breeding condition. She is wide, smooth and
deep and earries finish from end to end.
Her sire was by Lord Banff 2d out of a daughter
of Aberdeen Chief and her dam was by a son of
the excellent bull, Albion, by Valley Champion.
The man who is looking for real merit in an-
cestry should be pleased with this pedigree. An-
other foundation cow is Joan 2d, also by a son
of Lord Banff 2d. Her dam comes through
such noted Shorthorns as Young Abbotsburn,
the grand champion show bull of America and
the well known Harris bred Lady Athelstone of
Linwood. The bulls whose blood enters into the
herd along with those mentioned above, are Har-
riman Bros.’ New Goods; the well known
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Hleadhght by Grand Vietor Hh; imp. Daydreams
Pride; ump. Thistletop; Lord Mayor and others
of equal merit and popularity. The herd bull
is a big beefy fellow and is a son of Queen Lil,
mentioned above.

Mr. Kerr is located conveniently near Olathe,
ina locality where all kinds of tame grass flour-
ish and where Shorthorns have always been very
approved.

W. D. Lorimer, Olathe —Mr. Lorimer made
his ee from herds such as that of W. A.
Forsythe & Son, Ogden & Son, and from the
good loeal herd of J. A. en Among: the
foundation stoek is the Leonard bred Dixie G.
by Rosedale’s Choice and her dam by Golden
Crown out of a daughter of Lavender Viscount,
International grand champion. Dixie G. would
be a very attractive cow in any herd. One among
the best cows is Geneva whose sire was by the
excellent Cumberland’s Last bull, Baron Marr,
and her dam was by a son of Prince Pavonia.
Others in the herd are descended in the top
erosses from sueh bulls as) Godwin, Good
Choiee and Giltspur’s Knight.

Lethia’s Goods, a bull used for some time, was
strong in the blood of White Goods, one of the
best sons of Choice Goods. Tle also earricd
strong infusion of imp. Merry Tlampton. The
present herd bull is an exceptionally even, well
proportioned fellow from end to end. While his
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ralves are not old cnough to determine what he
will do as a breeder, they are quite promising.
On his sive’s side, he is representative of Mr.
Gentry’s Victorous and Leonard’s Lavender Vis-
count while his dam is by the show bull, Blythe
Conqueror and out of imp. Pavonia, one of the
best imported cows ever owned in eastern Kan-
sas. Mr. Lorimer is secretary of the Johnson
County Shorthorn Calf Club.

Gallanaugh Bros., Gardner.—It sometimes
happens that I talk with a young breeder and
decide almost immediately that he will be a sue-
cess. Such was the case when I visited Gallan-
augh Bros. They have laid a good foundation,
drawn from reliable sources of supply, and they
intend making additions by purchase and devot-
ing their energies toward producing real Short-
horns. The females carry the blood of strictly
high-class bulls from some of the best herds in
eastern Kansas and with their good breeding
they combine individual merit. One of the
cows comes from Donhams. Her sire is a
son of Prince Pavonia, favorably known in
the Nevius herd, and her dam is by Giltspur’s
Knight. This line of breeding is recognized in
eastern Kansas as having produced excellent
results.

Hoover’s Dale, the bull in service, is from the
well known herd of E. 8. Stewart, Sturgeon,
Missouri. His sire, Wooddale Stamp, is one of
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the best sons of the Choice of All and is out of
imp. Clara 58th. This is the bull so much used
in the old established Ravenswood herd. The
dam of Hoover’s Dale is May Butterfly by Vio-
let?s Last from S. P. Emmons & Sons. With
the care and attention given to details by
Gallanaugh Bros. and the lot of breeding cows on
hand, mated with a bull hke Hoover’s Dale, sat-
isfactory returns are quite certain.

H. W. Love, Kenneth.—Mr. Love has a herd
of about twenty females that are descended
through a line of good bulls. The older cows are
nearly all sired by Gallant Knight’s Star, a son
of Gallant Knight, out of a Lord Mayor dam.
Among the best ones in the herd is Sultan’s
Rose by Sultan’s Model, a grandson of Whitehall
Sultan. Her dam is by Barmpton Knight. This
is a combination of real blood lines and real
merit. Two heifers out of this cow are also in
the herd.

Gloster’s Lad is the bull that is being used. He
was bred by E. Ogden & Son and his sire,
Beauty’s Lad, is by Sultan’s Goods. His dam is
by Royal Gloster, a prize winning son of imp.
Daydreams Pride and his grandson is out of
Barmpton Joy, the dam of Tomson’s great sire,
Barmpton Knight. I did not have the pleasure
of seeing Mr. Love’s eattle but I know that
Shorthorns bred the same as these are giving
splendid results. Along with such blood lines,
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suceess 1s obtained through proper care and feed-
ing and Mr. Love is very favorably located and
will be enabled to give his cattle a good chance.

Jas. Rhoads, Wellsville-—Sixteen years ago
Mr. Rhoads bought two cows and a bull from the
well known herd of C. W. Norton of Iowa. The
present herd, as well as a lot of stock sold, is
descended from this purchase. The first bull
used was Baron Victor 9th by a son of Col.
Harris’ great sire, imp. Baron Victor. He was
followed by a son of imp. Prince Charlie out of
a dam by Orange Boy 52992. Later a son of
Crown Prince of Lawndale was bought from
Alex Fraser. This bull was from Mr. Fraser’s
excellent cow, Duchess of Independence. The
herd which has been kept in the ordinary man-
ner with no special attempt to push development,
consists of about fifteen good useful females.
The herd bull was bred by John Black and his
sire, Hampton Serene, is by Mr. Hanna’s Hamp-
ton Spray, out of a daughter of imp. Lord Cow-
slip. Mia. Rhoads’ sales of surplus have been
made locally and his trade has heen very satis-
factory.

S. B. Haskin, Olathe.—The sires used in this
herd are Polled Shorthorns and some of the cows
are double standard. The cattle are well cared
for and they attain good medium size. Lucille
is an outstanding four-year-old red, by Colonel, a
son of Collynie Goods 33265. Through her sire
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she carries the blood of imp. Collynie, Choice
Goods and Prince Gloster, three of America’s
ereatest bulls and through Ingle Prince, her
dam’s sire, she has Prince of Collynie, imp. In-
glewood and Royal Knight. It would be strange
if she were not good. The other cows are of sim-
Uar breeding. The bulls are from the best Poled
herds, the present sire, Airdrie Evergreen, com-
ing from J. H. Walker.

Rothwell & Sons, Gardner.—Here is a highly
commendable case of co-operation between
father and sons and they are all in earnest about
their work. Their purchase consists of one cow,
two heifers and a bull. The cow was bred by
Col, Andy J. James and it will be interesting
to know that she was bred from the family of
eattle that were at one time the highest priced
and most popular in the world’s listory. With
this cow they secured a nice heifer ealf at foot
by Lavender Stamp. The bull being used is a
thick fellow of very pleasing appearance and
good breeding. He comes from T. J. Sand’s herd
and is by Clansman out of a dam by Classical
Sultan.

A. E. Wedd, Lenexa.—Mr. Wedd bought a
few cows from Col. Andy J. James some years
ago. They came to Col. James from the Alex
Fraser herd and wherever found these Fraser
eows have been good breeders and good milkers.
Mr. Wedd is using a bull sired by the Betteridge
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bred Cicelie’s Model out of a dam by Braceful
Conqueror, a son of imp. Conqueror and imp.
Bracelet. There is no way to get. better eattle
than by breeding sueh females to first-class
bulls. Mia. Wedd can, if he puts the necessary
eare and feed into this herd, soon have a lot of
cattle of which any man would feel proud. He
is located in a community of Shorthorn breeders
Where co-operation is practiced.

A. L. Wiswell, Ocheltree.—Mvr. Wiswell is a
new man in the Shorthorn business, but he is full
of enthusiasm for the work. The three cows he
has purchased are good ones and are intended as
a foundation. Cottonwood Belle is by Handsome
Prince by a son of Blythe Pavonia and out of a
dam by Graceful Conqueror. Golden Nell is by
Golden Glow, a son of Andrew Pringle’s Golden
Prince, out of a dam by imp. Thistletop. Aga-
tha’s Fashion is one of Col. Andy J. James’
breeding, her ancestry being from Alex Fraser’s
herd of Scotch cross Bates Shorthorns. This
cow has a promising yearling heifer by Kelly
Bros.’ Lavender Stamp. These four females are
of exceptional value in establishing a herd.

Boyd Lorimer, Olathe.—Mr. Lorimer, a mem-
ber of an old Johnson county Shorthorn family,
recently bought of Kelly Bros. two Shorthorn
cows. The one was bred by Col. Andy J. James
and is by one of his good bulls and out of a cow
from the Alex Fraser herd. The other cow came
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from the J. ©. Lorimer herd, which has been a
genuine source of supply for the territory
north of Olathe. The breeding represented
here is the best Bates foundation crossed with
good Scotch bulls and this has produced splendid
results. Ma. Lorimer is using Dean Lorimer’s
high-class bull.

J. R. Miller, Gardner.—Mr. Miller is the first
and only barber I have found who owns Short-
horns and takes an active interest in them and I
have been assured that he is a good Shorthorn
man. He bought five heifers of Barrett & Land
and is keeping them well and breeding to Kelly
Bros.’ excellent bull, Lavender Stamp. This
system will insure better results and the buyers
of his output will get better cattle than if he
kept a bull of medium quality as many small
breeders do, and the cost is not greater.

Vint Trusine, Wellsviile—Mrs. Trusine is a
daughter of Mr. Rhoads and the small herd on
the Trusine farm came from her fathers. Mr.
Trusine intends building up a Shorthorn herd
and staying with the business. The cows on hand,
bred to the right kind of bulls, with the produce
properly grown out, will make a very satisfae-
tory foundation for the future herd. The bull in
use comes from John Black and is a son of
Hampton Serene. The location is favorable for
the production of Shorthorns and local market,
conditions in the Ottawa territory are good.
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H. J. Waddell, Olathe—Mr. Waddell has
made satisfactory selections, one of his cows be-
ing by Matchless Avon, a son of the noted Kan-
sas State Agricultural College bull, Matchless
Dale, one of the most renowned sons of Avondale.
On her dam’s side she combines the blood of imp.
Princess Lovely, a grandson of Mr. Duthie’s
famous Scottish Archer and Senator Benedict’s
well known Banker 4th. Another cow is by King
Gloster, a bull of T. J. Blake’s breeding and out
of a cow by Prince Pavonia, one of Mr. Nevius’
best herd bulls. The herd bull comes from 8S. B.
Haskins and is by the J. H. Walker bred Rube

Evergreen.

KINGMAN COUNTY

Bennington Bros., Rago.*—Thirty-five years
ago, C. Bennington began breeding Shorthorns
in Iowa. Twelve years ago he came with his
family to Kansas, bringing fourteen cows with
him. The firm was known as C. Bennington &
Sous until after the father’s death which oe-
curred three years ago when it became Benning-
ton Bros. A large grade herd has been kept
along with the pure bred one, but the Benning-
tons say that the day of the grade cow is almost
past with them because they find the pure bred
much more profitable.

Their herd is descended from three cows which

 

Telephone, Harper,
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were bought im Lowa thirty-five years ago. No
effort has been made to attain the highest stand-
ard, vet practical utility has always been insisted
upon. The cows are of good size and are quite
uniform, Sinee well bred bulls have always been
used the herd represents desirable breeding. The
men from whom herd bulls have been obtained
are Chandler Jordan, Abe Renick, C. C. Bigler,
M. E. Jones, C. S. Nevius, Howell Rees and H.
Hl. Holmes. Students of Shorthorn affairs will
concede that bulls coming from these herds
should have been very good ones. One of the
best used was Cherry Grove Bantt 19th, seleeted
by the elder Bemuneton and the senior member
of the present firme as the best young bull on the
M. 1. Jones farm, dle was almost a facsimile of
his sire, map. Lord Banff, and proved to be an
outstanding breeder.

Two bulls are now being used. Hame’s Goods
is by Ruberta’s Goods out of tap. Princess Fame
and he carries two direct crosses near the top of
his pedigree to Scottish Archer, Mr. Duthie’s
ereatest sive. Kame’s Goods had been used be-
fore comme to Benmingtons and has an estab-
lished reputation as a breeder. The other is
Choice Keho, a big white, by New Heho, a son of
New Goods and is dain was a daughter of imp.
Mthel, the very excellent cow that went from Geo.
Bothwells to Harrinan Bros.’ herd. Both these
bulls ave tried sires of merit and, with their use
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and some proposed changes in handling, an ex-
cellent herd should be built up here.

J. F. Birkenbaugh, Basil.*—Though founded
in 1916 and now cousisting of only twelve fe-
tales, this herd is worthy of much consideration.
The cows are medium to large and the young
stock is fed for splendid development. The an-
cestry of the foundation cows was of the better
class aud the bulls used should insure constant
tmiplrovement. Lady Bariupton is by Satin
Royal, a son of Captain Archer, own brother to
Sweet Mistletoe, dam of Lespedeza Collynie,
119 International grand champion. Satin
Roval’s dam was My. Stodder’s fainous show
cow, Lanocence, by imp. Bapton Arrow, one of
the best bulls in the West, making him a full
brother to Crystal Maid, leading Kansas show

cow for three years. Silver Beauty comes from
Mr. Stodder and is by Silvermine, a bull known
ailover southern Kansas for the excellence of his
eet and his wealth of good ancestry. Silver
Beauty’s dain is by Prince Pavonia, one of the
state’s best bulls. Secret Thought is by Bantt
Boy, a grandson of imp. Lord Bantf, leading
show bull in America and the first Scotch bull to
sell for more than 45000, Pollyanna is the daugh-
ter of Choice Archer, a son of Captain Archer
(see above) out of a granddaughter of Choice
Goods, Ainerican champion for three years.

 

Telephone, IXkingman.
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The first sire used was Ozark Sultan. Te
was by a son of Princely Sultan by Whitehall
Sultan, ereatest American bull of this gener-
ation. The roan, Village Emblem, is now in
service. He is by imp. Proud Emblem Jr. whose
sive, Proud Emblem, is one of Great Britain’s
most popular sires. Village Emiblem’s dam is
by the great sive, np. Villager, out of Butter-
fly Maid, a daughter of Jubilee Maid. Ma. Birk-
enbaugh is pursuing the mght course in selection
and in the eare of his herd, which bids fair to
become one of the leading ones of south central
Kansas.

George W. Allen, Norwich.—Mr. Allen’s cows
are of medium size and come from excellent an-
cestry. The young stock is well cared for and
with the use of good bulls a first-class herd will
be built up. The original purchases of eows
made two years ago were strong in the blood of
inp. Collynie and to use on these cows Mayor
Alcott 618504 was secured. THe was by Mayor
Dale, a son of Maxwalton Rosedale by Avondale
out of the famous cow, imp. Rosewood Pride.
Mayor Dale’s dam was by Prime Minister of the
same breeding as the champion, Lavender Vis-
count. The bull now used is by Mr. Hanna’s
Hampton Spray out of Golden Queen 3d, a
daughter of imp. Collynie and imp. Golden
Queen, one of the best lines of Shorthorn breed-
ine to be found.
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LABETTE COUNTY

L. M. Dunaway, Edna.—Mr. Dunaway has
been breeding Shorthorns for a dozen years and
in this time he has sold large numbers of cattle to
his neighbors. His persistent disposition to sell
has resulted in the herd’s being cut down to
twenty females, but he has certainly done his
share toward popularizing the breed in his local-
ity. He has even started a bright, ten-year-old
grandson in business by selling hin three heifers.
The bey isa Shorthorn enthusiast and talks eat-
tle like a veteran.

Mr. Dunaway’s cows impressed me as smooth,
even, attractive, medium-sized ones and showed
a very decided tendency to give much milk, nuilk-
ing quality having been specially developed since
the herd was founded. He has been using good
bulls and the appearance of the herd indicates
sensible, practical care. The present herd bull is
Sveamore Marshall, a Stunkel bred son of O1r-
ange Marshall out of a Victor Orange cow, thus
giving him a double cross of Victor Orange, one
of the bulls that helped make Shorthorn history
in the Southwest. Sycamore Marshall can hardly
help adding to the value of the herd. The work
Mi. Dunaway is doing is an important one and
such a herd as his, developed for beef and milk,
with good Shorthorn character and attractive-
ness, grown on the ordinary feeds of the farm
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isan object lesson to the people of any commun-
ity.

D. S. Romine, Oswego.—When in company
with F. B. Campbell and O. O. Massa I drove to
Mr. Romine’s home, [involuntarily reealled Mr.
Sanders’ deseription of the Shorthorn country
in England, for nowhere else in southern Kansas
have I seen such grass as on the large lawn. In
the pasture on the lower ground, running in blue
grass, knee-deep, were twelve Shorthorn cows,
every one of which would be called high-class.
They are large, fat and smooth and the calves
eet all the milk they want.

Mr. Romine says he always selects the kind of
cow he likes, paying absolutely no attention to
pedigree but [ examined the three top crosses in
the pedigree of each cow and found all of them
well loaded with the blood of such animals as
imp. Collynie; Hampton Spray; Prince Rovai:
imp. Clover Flower, the dam of Cumberland ;
Callant Knight; Prince Gloster, sive of the $10-
000 Prince Imperial; imp. Seottish Lord, Mr.
Cowan’s great sire; and that quartet from Mr.
Hanna’s importation, Lord Cowslip, Inglewood,
Mariner and the cow Mistletoe 15th, dam of
Captain Archer, Sweet Mistletoe, Collynie’s
Pride and Golden Day. The selection and pro-
duction of such a herd proves conclusively that
one need not be a pedigree expert in order to
select good cattle, as such cattle invariably come
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from good ancestry which gives them good pedi-
grees and I thought it might be a fine thing if
more breeders seleeted their stock with only in-
dividual merit as their guide.

Lant Bros., Dennis.—This firm some years ago
made a very fortunate purchase of a first-class
daughter of imp. Inglewood and out of a cow by
Royal Secret, second dam by imp. Scotchman.
From this cow they have sold numerous animals
at good prices including two young cows at $400
each and they have a well selected, though not
large, herd on hand. To the original purchase
was added in 1919, a roan daughter of Linwood
Victorious, a Cock Robin, Forbes bred bull of
ereat excellence also a heifer by Secret Baron,
purchased from H. I. Gaddis. At the fall South-
east IXansas sale, they secured a valuable cow
with heifer calf at foot by Master of the Dales.

The herd bull comes from Canada and his
pedigree is strong in Duthie and Marr breeding.
He is an attractive roan, smooth and close to the
eround and the young calves I saw by him looked
good. Lant Bros. won a reputation as breeders
of Durocs and I have reason to believe they will
handle these Shorthorns in a manner that will
vot results.

E. E. Fiske, Cherryvale—Mr. Fiske had been
breeding Shorthorns for four years when he
decided to improve by selling off all but the
best. The animals retained consisted of a
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Few cows bred by L. M. Dunaway and typieal of
Mr. Dunaway’s best cattle which is the dual-put-
pose type. (See Dunaway sketch.) There were
also retained a few cows carrying the blood of
such bulls as Lord Mayor 3d, an outstanding
show bull by Lord Mayor; imp. Collymie; inp.
Daydreams Pride; Golden Day, a son of imp.
Mistletoe 15th by imp. Mariner; Baron Rupert
and Golden Vietor Ja, a bull much used by HH. M.
Fl. The lot retained also inclided a few heifers
from these cows sired by Lad’s Prince, an Ingle
Lad bull out of a daughter of Godwin, the big
son of imp. Spartan Ifero. These cows furnish
areal foundation for a herd, whieh with care
and development, should be a credit to the breed-
er and a benetit to the community.

F. B. Campbell, Altamont.—The genial and
very ¢fficient secretary of the Southeast Kansas
Breeders Association has been raising Short-
horns for eighteen years. Ife has been selling
hberally and when Lf saw his herd it consisted
of only fourteen females. They are mice, smooth,
straight-lned cattle, but Ma. Campbell pleads
euilty to the charge of insufficient feeding for
best development, a condition which is being
remedied at this time. Hour bulls have been used
in this herd in the last dozen years, all of which
were purchased from TT. M. Hill and are repre-
sentative of Ma. Till’s breeding. The one now in
use Is Sagamore Sultan by the International
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winner, True Sultan, son of Whitehall Sultan.
His dam is by Golden Crown by the Duthie bred
Scotland’s Crown.

Col. D. Christmann, Oswego.—Col. Christ-
mann has a large farm and a herd of cows that
show all evidence of being profitable producers.
Milking tendency seems to he a strong feature of
the herd. The cattle are of good size but they
lack somewhat in infusion of Scotch blood, a con-
dition which may easily be overcome in the first
cross. The bull now in use is a nice, smooth fel-
low, strongly representative of the Hanna-Hill
blood lines, backed by such ancestors as Ingle
Lad, imp. Collynie, Royal Knight and Secret
Archer. That this herd of cows is valuable if
properly crossed is an established fact and the
owner is now working along this line. Col.
Christmann is president of the Labette County
Shorthorn Breeders Association.

W. E. Cobb, Valeda.—Mr. Cobb, whose farm
adjoins that of Mr. Townsend, is jomt owner
with him of the excellent Orange Viceroy, a bull
whose individual merit and wealth of inheritance
makes him a great acquisition to the Shorthorn
interests of Lahbette county and adjacent terri-
tory. Here is one of those commendable cases
where neighbors appropriated sufficient money
to buy two fairly good bulls and paid it all out
for one that was extra good. Mr. Cobb has only
a small herd in numbers but a toppy one in
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quality. It ineludes an execllent Cruickshank
Butterfly cow recently purchased at a long price
and representative in the top crosses of Lord
Banff, Godwin, King of Aberdeen and Thistle-
top, four of America’s great bulls, all connected
with Shorthorn breeding in Kansas.

A. E. Townsend, Valeda.—Mr. Townsend, who
has been handling Shorthorns for six years,
made a recent addition of two females to his
small herd and jointly with W. E. Cobb bought
what should prove to be a very valuable bull. He
is a white and has for sire Pleasant Dale 2d, fol-
lowed in order by Mr. Harding’s Sultan Mine,
Betteridge’s Lavender Viceroy, imp. Master of
the Rolls and Roan Gauntlet. Students of Short-
horn history and pedigrees will note the rich in-
heritance which this young fellow receives from
his ancestry. It is only reasonable to expect sat-
isfactory results from such a bull when mated
with the meght cows and the herd is given the
night kind of attention.

A. C. Braunsdorf, Parsons.—The Grand View
Stock Farm herd is good and comes from high-
class ancestry. The females represent three
great bulls, imp. Collynie, imp. Mariner and imp.
Inglewood. The stoek was purchased from
Lant Bros. in 1916 and ineluded an exeellent
three-year-old bull, Fashioner 7th, by TTampton
Primrose, son of Hampton Spray, out of Prim-
rose 6th, one of the best of Ma. Haimna’s cows.
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G. W. Massa, Edna.—Like a number of others
in Labette county, Mr. Massa uses a few regis-
tered Shorthorns as milk cows, giving the calves
good care and selling them for breeding pur-
poses. By this means he is enabled to get much
greater net returns than from cows of any other
breed. I saw an excellent individual of very
pleasing appearance in his pasture, a real dual-
purpose cow, the type of the future for the small
farm.

A. H. Neville, Valeda.—Mr. Neville has a
small herd, the foundation of which was pur-
chased locally and which, like others in the vicin-
ity, represents a useful type of farm cattle. As
these cows are almost invariably good milkers,
they solve the question of making cattle pay un-
der the more costly conditions now met on the
sinall farm. Mr. Neville is using a bull from the
Nevius herd, typical in character and breeding
of that establishment.

W. J. Walker, Altamont.—Mr. Walker is one
of F. B. Campbell’s neighbors. He bought a cow
a few years ago and now has several very credit-
able Shorthorns. His bull, purchased from Fred
Cowley, comes through such ancestry as Ingle
Lad Jr., a son of Sweet Mistletoe, famous as
the dam of the 1919 International grand cham-
pion. The dam of Mr. Walker’s bull is by Seeret
Archer, one of the noted Kansas sives of his
day.
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LEAVENWORTH COUNTY

Harrison Meyer, Basehor.*—Mr. Meyer
started in business a few years ago with the idea
that extra good Shorthorns were the kind to buy
for a foundation and he has carried out his ideas
in the most approved way. The herd of twenty
females contains some very excellent animals.
The big, smooth, deep-bodied, wide, well covered
cows have true Shorthorn character and show
in their calves that they are good breeders and
heavy milkers.

Among the especially attractive things on the
farm is a red heifer by Diamond Gloster 422421
out of a dam by Roan Goods by White Goods,
possibly the best son of Choiee Goods. Viscount-
ess, bred by Loch Bros., is a very large and
showy cow and a first-class specimen of the
breed. Her sire, Scotch Goods, is a son of Good
Choice out of a Merry Hampton dam. One of
the best breeding cows on the farm eomes from
Kelly Bros. She is by Banning, a grandson of
inp. Lord Banff. An excellent, large, red cow
by Clara’s Choice, the son of Choice Goods and
imp. Clara 58th is worthy of special notice. The
dam of this cow is by Courtier 4th and her see-
ond dam is by the grand champion, Vis-
count of Anoka. One of her heifers is amone’
the best things on the farm. The animats

Ship on Santa Fe or K. C. & N. W.
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mentioned are representative of the entire herd.

Walnut Duke, the bull in service, came to
Leavenworth county with an established repu-
tation as a breeder. He is a big fellow, not
entirely faultless in conformation, yet not fairly
subject to serious criticism. He was bred by
Bellows Bros. and his sire, Hampton’s Success-
or, was one of the good bulls used in that herd.
His dam is by Vietorallan and his second dam by
mnp. Merry Hampton, one of the best individuals
ever sent out of Scotland. Walnut Duke is
breeding true to his ancestry and must be classed
among the valuable bulls of northeast Kansas.

My. Meyer is one of four breeders located in
the Basehor neighborhood who are co-operating
in their business to a very commendable degree.
This gives intending buyers visiting in a com-
munity a distinct advantage.

Henry Ode & Son, Leavenworth.*—Twenty-
five cows are kept on this farm. They are grown
in a profitable way, but they have not been fed
for as good development as is planned for the
future. While the herd is now a creditable one,
present conditions are such as to work a constant
umprovement. The original purchase was made
from T. F. Stone of Weston, Missouri and num-
bered five females. Later five more were added
from the same herd. Sales of both males and fe-
males have been made locally and the demand

 

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for the production of the farm has been strong.
The Stone bred cows were excellent individuals,
descended from the best of ancestry through long
use of high-class bulls. Among these cows was
tuby 24th by Secret Goods, a son of Best of
Goods out of Scerct of Hill Farm 2d by imp.
Lavender Lad. Her dam was by Sirias, a Norton
bred son of imp. Salamis. Violet 8d was also by
Secret Goods out of a Sirias dam.

The first bull used in the herd was Leaven-
worth 393487, bred by Alex Fraser. [lis sire was
by Silk Goods, possibly the only son of Choice
Goods now doing service. Leavenworth’s dam
was by Falsetto, a great sire in Mr. Fraser’s
herd. This Scotch crossed Duchess bull proved
an exceptional breeder for Mr. Ode. The bull
used until recently was Hampton 5th bred by K.
G. Gigstad. He is a son of Tfampton’s Spiey by
Hampton’s Demonstrator and out of a cow by
Goods, Ma. Gigstad’s exeellent breeding son of
Good Choice. THis second dam is by Golden Lan-
caster,

The Ode community is such as to render nec-
essary a class of cows capable of raising good
beef cattle and at the same time giving a good
yield of milk. Some of the best guarantees for
the permanent success of this establishment are
found in the enthusiasm and ability of the junior
partner, in the necessity for keeping cattle as a
means Of maintaining soil fertility and in the
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inclination of Leavenworth county farmers to-
ward Shorthorns.

W. H. Lewis, Basehor.—Mr. Lewis had been
raising good grades but advancing land prices
demanded the best live stock that could be pro-
duced and so he changed from grades to pure
breds. Good size, attractiveness and smoothness
are characteristics of the cows in this herd while
desirable ancestry tells the story of their pedi-
gree. Two of the best are by Rock Springs Pride,
a son of Pride of Collynie, own brother to Sweet
Mistletoe, dam of the 1919 grand champion show
bull. The dam of Rock Springs Pride was by
Gladys’ Chief, a bull out of an own sister to Lav-
ender Viscount, the bull carrying off the In-
ternational grand championship. In general, the
cows in this herd are well filled with the blood of
such bulls as imp. Scottish Lord and Barmpton
Knight, two of the best and most favorably
known bulls of their dav. A daughter of Walnut
Duke is one of the excellent things on the farm.

Mr. Lewis is using the bull, Princess Goods
2d, formerly used by Henry Ode & Son. He is
conveniently located near Harrison Meyer’s and
is making liberal use of Walnut Duke. (See
Mever sketch.) He is one of the four breeders in
the vicinity of Basehor who are co-operating in
every way to advance Shorthorn interests in
their community and the excellent cattle on
hand with a few choice additions planned will
444 A THISTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

make for the successful building up of a herd.

George S. Marshall, Basehor.—On Mr. Mar-
shall’s farm I found eleven good cows and a
spirit of cnthusiasm and energy on the part of
the owner that bespeaks success. Two of the
best cows in the herd were bred by Ed Heglund
of Atchison county. One is by Goods 374898 by
Golden Laneaster, sire of the Gigstad show
steers. (See Gigstad sketch.) She has a good
heifer in the herd by Diamond Gloster 422421.
Another cow is Village Lovely 3d by Village
Lord, son of Villager out of a dam by Whitehall
Sultan. Village Lovely 3d is out of a cow by
Good Choice whose dam was by the Duthie bred
unp. Lavender Champion. Barmpton Knight,
the very popular Kansas bull, is represented by
an excellent cow sired by one of his sons. Two
are by Clara’s Choice by the Choice of All out
of imp. Clara 58th. The herd of Loch Bros.
has been drawn on for a splendid heifer by Wal-
nut Duke. (See Meyer sketch.) Her dam is by
Scoteh Goods, a son of Bellows Bros.’ Good
Choice out of a dam by imp. Merry Tampton.
Students of Shorthorn listory and pedigrees
will recognize the fact that Mr. Marshall’s cows
are as well descended as any that could be ob-
tained.

The new bull is Lavender Kine. [ saw this
follow asa big yearling last summer. [his breed-
ing is of the best and he is very beefy, close to
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the ground and smooth and should make a first-
class sive.

J. A. Mussett, Basehor.—This herd consists of
only five femaies but they make up in quality
what they lack in numbers. They have plenty of
size, smoothness and Shorthorn character. A
heavy milking cow and a fine breeder is Cam-
bria Maid by Clansman, son of Lavender Vice-
roy by the grand champion, Lavender Viscount.
An aged cow bred by H. ©. Dunean and sired by
Headheght, out of a dam by Scottish Chief, is
still vigorous and bids fair to raise several more
calves. Her individuality and the ancestry from
which she comes should make her calves valu-
able. Her heifers will all be retained. Clara’s
Choice, the well known Gentry bred bull, has a
eood daughter in the herd.

Mr. Mussett is acting wisely in using Harrison
Mever’s bull instead of keeping one of medium
quality such as he feels he could afford to buy
and in this he is setting an example to small
breeders who in many cases are using a quite
common bull. Co-operation on the bull should be
practiced wherever possible. The size of Mr.
Mussett’s herd is not an indication of his future
operations for he is planning more purchases of
females and they will be good ones. He has all
the resources necessary for putting up a Short-
horn herd including plenty of enthusiasm, both
in himself and in a growing son.
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A. L. Withers, Leavenworth.*—Mr. Withers
is located three miles from the heart of the city
and on his high priced land he figures cows must
raise good calves and give milk for market. The
five Shorthorn cows L saw being milked are do-
ing this and the calves are being well raised by
hand. The reader will reeall that Thos. Bates did
the same thing with his famous Duchess cows
and produced the greatest herd the world had
seen up to that time. <A first-class herd bull by
Villager Jr. was recently bought from G. F.
Kellerman. This bull is big, thick and smooth
and must be considered one of the county’s best
Shorthorns. The fact that he did service in the
Kellerman herd guarantees his quality.

LINN COUNTY

A. Hamm & Son, Prescott.—This firm is
counted among the leading breeders of Linn
county. The herd which was. started seven
years ago now numbers about thirty-five fe-
males including one imported cow, Sister Susie
729813. The object is not to produce abnormally
large cattle but rather to avoid the extremes in
size and to build up a herd of smooth, uniform
tvpe with the quality required for good Short-
horns. The young stock is being well cared for.

The Hamins exhibited at the Linn county fair
in 1919 and won in the classes including first

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on aged bull, first on junior calf and second
on herd. They contributed materially to the suc-
cess of the Linn County breeders sale in 1919,
their entries having been well appraised by the
bidders. They sent an elegant white heifer calf
to the Kansas National show at Wichita in 1920,
which was much admired and, though not at all
fitted, was good enough in general conformation
to be a credit to any breeder.

Ainong their cows is Gwendolyne Princess,
a three-vear-old) roan by Beaver Creek Sul-
tan from Tomson Bros.’ herd. Her dam was by
Primvose Royal bred by 8S. C. Hanna. He was by
Prince Roval, son of imp. Collynie and the Marr
bred inp. Princess Royal 62d and his dam, one
of the best cows in the Hanna herd, was by imp.
Inglewood out of the Duthie bred imp. Primrose
4th by Seottish Archer. Another cow, Wrane-
ler’s Countess, comes from Leonards. Her sire,
Majestic Viscount, was by Wooddale Stamp out
of a dam by Rosedale’s Choice. The dam of
Wrauegler’s Countess 1s np. Ravenswood Eim-
erald of Norie’s breeding. Village Marshal,
Tomson’s great son of Cumberland Marshal, has
a roan daughter in the herd, Victoria Queen. Sil-
ver Queen, another roan, is by Beaver Creek Sul-
tan. Both these heifers are of the choicest and
most acceptable breeding and are among the
strictly good animals on hand. <A roan
three-year-old is Lady Gloster by Gloster’s
445 A HISTORY OF SHORTITORNS IN KANSAS

Choice, son of Marengo’s Choice, the exeellent
son of Rosedale’s Choice and imp. Marengo’s
Lavender Countess. Her dam is by Vietoria’s
Snowflake by the Choice of All.

Fancy Dale, a white son of Maxwalton Rose
dale, is the bull used. His dam is Norwood
Faney by imp. Crescent Knight and his seeond
dam is imp. Fancy 2d. It will be recalled that
Maxwalton Rosedale is by Avondale and out
of np. Rosewood Pride. He is a full brother to
Whitehall Rosedale, western state fair champion
and champion at the American Royal. He is out
of the same dam as the noted Pride of Albion, a
ereat winner at the biggest shows and sire of
Pride of Oakdale, the 1919 prime favorite east of
the Mississippi. Those familiar with Shorthorn
pedigrees will recognize in this story a herd of
the very choicest breeding.

G. F. Kellerman, Mound City.—I first inct
My. Kellerman in 188+ and the most noticeable
Feature about him was his great liking for Short-
horns. For several years we lived near enough
to visit and of course it was Shorthorn talk on
both sides. TE shall omit a considerable part of
his active life for that is told in the story of D.
KK. Kellerman & Son, G. EH. WKellerman having
been the son. Ele had shown im the management
of the partnership herd, unusual ability as a
breeder and handler of cattle and when T learned
that he was breeding Shorthorns on his own
A HISTORY OF SIIORTHORNS IN KANSAS 449

account Twas not surprised to hear that he hada
very choice herd. A visit to the Kellerman farm
and a study of the methods employed to get as
much as possible out of a young animal would be
the best investment any young breeder could
make.

The Kellerman herd is not large, comprising
only fifteen females, but the man who is par-
ticular about pedigree or merit could buy with
his eyes shut, since the owner is probably more
particular than he. The breeding will pass mus-
ter anywhere for here are cows that would be a
credit to any breeder. One of the more valuable
ones is Columbia 5th, a three-year-old white. She
suckled a white bull calf eight months old that
weighed nearly 800 pounds and he must be
classed as one of the very best calves I have seen.
Columbia 5th is by Parkdale Baron, the well
known Bellows sire. Her dam is by Star of the
Mist by Choice of All out of Violet Mist 6th, one.
of the best cows Mi. Gentry got in the purchase
of the Dustin herd. Gregg Farm’s Lavender is
aremarkably short-legged, big-bodied young cow
by Grege’s Villager, now conceded to be one of
the best Villager bulls in service. Her dam is by
Gallant Knight’s heir, Kansas State Fair cham-
pion and much used in the Tomson herd. Her
second dam is by Archer, son of imp. Collynie
and imp. Circe 3d. One of the best cows in the
herd and one of the best I have seen anywhere 1s
450 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

the massive red, Victoria May 2d, by Count Com-
modore. This cow is just what I would want the
mother of my herd bull to be. Besides being an
outstanding beef cow, she is a heavy milker and
her calf weighed 800 pounds the day he was cight
months old and at that age he was sold to O. A.
Weddle of Allen county for $700. Closely ap-
proaching Victoria May 2d in size, quality and
milk is the four-year-old roan, Hattie C., a Tom-
son production by Prince Valentine 4th. Her
dam is by Lord Marr, one of the best sons of
Lord Mayor and her second dam is Harmony 6th
by imp. Thistletop.

The future herd bull is the white calf men-
tioned above, out of Columbia 5th. IEf this calf
erows out as he promises and as his ancestry
would justify, few bulls in Kansas will equal hin
either as an individual or as a sire.

E. C. Smith & Son, Pleasanton.—The Smiths
began their work in 1915 and have forty females
in the herd. The cows are large and the young
stock is being well fed and cared for. They have
been doing some showing and have a record of
winnings very creditable to any one not keeping
cattle especially for show. In 1919 they contrib-
uted to the Central Sale at Kansas City and in
the show held before the sale they won second
and fourth places on them entries which sold at
#700 and #425 respectively. At the 1919 Linn
county fair they were awarded first place on
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herd, on aged bull, on aged cow and on senior
heifer calf and second on junior heifer calf. They
also received the #25 bull championship offered
by the American Shorthorn Breeders Associ-
ation. An addition was made to the herd in 1919
by the purchase of two high-class females
and the work of improvement is going steadily
forward.

Among: the best cows on the farm is Brides-
maid 2d by Gallant Knight’s Heir, the son of
Gallant Knight kept by Tomson Bros. for show
and breeding. Her dam is by a Norton bred son of
Banker’s Victor. Gloster’s Girl, a five-year-old
red, is by Mutinecr’s Last, a son of imp. Mutin-
eer and out of Duchess of Gloster 29th by Royal
Marshal, one of the good sons of Whitehall Sul-
tan. Victoria Girl, another excelent young cow,
is by Count Commodore, a nicely bred bull from
the Cockscn herd and her dam comes from H. C.
Duncan and was by his favorably known Head-
hight. Nonpareil Maid 2d is a Kansas bred
daughter of Maxwalton Rosedale, the Avondale
bull used so successfully by Tomson Bros. and
the Pringles. Maxwalton Rosedale enjoys the
distinction of being own brother to Whitehall
Rosedale, for two years grand champion almost
everywhere west of the Mississippi. The win-
nines of this herd indicate with assurance that
jihere are some real Shorthorns here and the cows
show excellent ancestry.
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The bull that has been at the head of the
herd for some time and is still retained is
Village Goldfinder. He was bought as a
young fellow in 1917. Tis sire is Grege’s Vil-
lager, son of imp. Villager and imp. Belle of
Ordeans. His dam is Bridesmaid 2d by Gallant
Knight’s Heir by Gallant Knight. It was an own
brother to Village Goldfinder that was used by
G. F. Kellerman in 1918, siring the remarkable
calves seen at Mr. Kellerman’s the past season.

EK. C. Smith & Son are among the most public
spirited breeders in Kansas and are leading pro-
moters of the work being done by the Linn Coun-
ty Shorthorn Breeders Association, a strong or-
ganization which is making the county known as
one of the best Shorthorn sections of the state.

A. M. Markley & Sons, Mound City.—These
men are the oldest breeders in Linn county,
their operations having extended from 1892 to
the present time and in these years they have sold
Shorthorus to go to more than half the counties
in Kansas and to several other states including
Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Con-
siderable showing has been done with very satis-
Factory results. During the period from 1908
to 1917 the herd was exhibited at Mound City,
Pleasanton, Lola and Uniontown, winning: its
full share, or more, of premiums. In 1914 the
Winnings at these four fairs numbered fifty-two
prizes.
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The conditions for growing cattle on this farm
are good. Alfalfa and all tame grasses flourish
and ensilage is used in the ration. The breeding
herd new numbers apout thirty-five cows and
heifers. The cows are given good farm care and
the voung stock is fed grain. Most of the ma-
tured cows are medium in size and some are
large. In addition to the cows longest on the
farm, which came from such herds as Keller-
mans and that of Morse & Sons there have been
added in the past two years some desirable fe-
males. Occasional additions by purchase are
contelnplated. Orange Lad and Orange Major,
two of Linn county’s best known bulls, have been
used, followed by the Nevius bred Duchess
Searchlight by Searchlight. King’s Choice, an
excellent, big, red bull of approved breeding and
with an unusual covering of flesh in the valuable
parts, Is now being used.

Guy Rowley & Son, Prescott.—The aim on this
farm is to preduce a class of Shorthorns good
for beef and milk and to raise these cattle so that
they will be within reach of the farm trade. A
start has been made in this direction with twenty-
five females of breeding age. Robinetta 4th is a
typical cow of the class desired. Her sive, Mistle-
toe Aveher, is out of Sweet Mistletoe, the dam of
Lespedeza Ccllynie, the 1919 International
eryand champion. Her dam is a daughter of

Robin, the bull selected from Col. Harris’ herd
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by Mr. Hanna to work an improvement in the
milking quality of the Palo Duro herd. A daugh-
ter of this cow, Sycamore Robinetta, carrying
the Ingle Lad cross is said by Mr. Rowley to sur-
pass everything else on the farm for quantity and
quality of muk.

Splendid results have been obtained, not only
in Mr. Rowley’s herd but by several neighbors,
from the use of the Tomson bred bull, Mr. Mysie,
by Maxwalton Rosedale. The present herd bull,
Supreme Marshal, is a big, stretchy white, by
Village Marshal. Tlis dain is by imp. Crescent
Konight out of a daughter of imp. Sunny Blink
4th. There is room and plenty of patronage for
just such establishments as Rowley & Son pro-
pose to maintain, and the material on hand, com-
ing as it does from Shorthorns noted for produc-
tion of both beef and mulk, furnishes them a
solid working foundation for building up a dual-
purpose Shorthorn herd.

Mantey & Harriman, Mound City.—Rh. KE.
Harriman, of the same family as Col. Bob, the
popular auctioncer, 1s the wide-awake young
man in charge of this herd. The farm, almost
ideal for a phorthora establishment, is located
in a veal Shorthorn community and Mr. Harvi-
man has plans for the future which can hardly
fail to vesult ina good herd. A start is made
with a dozen females. Rosedale Lady, a nice
red, combines the blood of Victor Orange, a
A HISTORY OF SUORTHORNS IN KANSAS 455

faimous sive in the Stunkel herd with that of Gal-
lant Knight. Helen, a four-vear-old roan, was
bred by Kelly Bros. and is by Banning, a bull
strong in the blood of imp. Lord Banff. One of
the bulls used was Syeamove Lad. He carried a
double cross of Ingle Lad, now rated an out-
standing sire of producing cows. The present
herd bull is Royal Star, by the well known Clans-
nan, a bull used successfully by T. J. Sands
and W. H. Vail. Royal Star’s dam was by the
Conqueror, one of the best known sons of Choice
Goods.

G. A. McClaughey, Mound City.—Dr. Mce-
Claughey has three females. He is giving
them preper care and is using some of the best
bulls in Linn county which guarantee satisfac-
tory results. <A heifer by Emma’s Valentine
bought in 1916 of My. Nevius furnished the start
and she was a good ene. A nineteen-month-old
heifer of Dr. McClaughey’s breeding was first in
class at the Linn county fair in 1919.

Ted D. Paddock & Sons, Mound City.—This is
a firm of beginners. One of their cows was bred
by A. Hamm & Son. She isa daughter of Model
Goods by Hallwood Mint, a son of Choice Goods
Model. They also have an excellent heifer by
Fancy Dale, a son of Maxwalton Rosedale out of
Norwood Fanev by imp. Crescent Knight. The
Paddocks live near G. F. Kellerman and can
have the benefit of his co-operation.
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LYON COUNTY

E. H. Abraham, Emporia.—Mr. Abraham de-
serves credit for having very successfully hidden
lis heht under a bushel. Thad heard little about
him but it seems to ine that Jim Tomson once
told me of selling an extra good bull to a man
at Emporia by the name of Abraham. It is the
object of this book to rescue from obscurity just
such modest men as Mr. Abraham and to intro-
duce them to the breeders and farmers of the
state. While he was going along so quictly as to
occasion no connnent, he was gathering up a few
Shorthorns that suited him, using good bulls,
selecting choice heifers and feeding his cattle
well. The result is a herd of thirty females,
bred and grown on the farm during the past
twelve years, that have virtually cost Mr. Abra-
ham nothing, for the sales from the herd, while
made locally and at very modest prices, have
much more than paid all expenses and the price
of the origimal purchases. The results of good
ancestry, wise selection and judicious care are
apparent, for when you see these cattle you know
they are real Shorthorns.

Looking over the pedigrees LT found noted bulls
in evidence everywhere. A.aong them are Lay-
ender Viscouut, famous sire at Ravenswood and
liternational grand champion;  Barmpton
Knight, Tomson’s wonderful breeding bull;
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Gallant Kineht, leading western sire of prize
winners in his day; Victorious, famous in N. H.
Gentry’s herd; imp. Knight Templar, by Cum-
berland and out of the same dam as imp. Baron
Victor; Imperial Vietor, the Stunkel bred son of
Vietor Orange that sold for $2000 in the cheap
times; St. Valentine, sire of the undefeated Ru-
berta; Prince Royal, son of imp. Craven Knight
and the Peerless cow, ump. Princess Alice and
mp. Scottish Lord that sired B. O. Cowan’s
World’s Fair prize winners.

The herd bull is Vietor Maxshal, a Tomson
bred son of Village Marshal. His dam is Van-
ity, a cow by Archer that has been a prize
winner in the Tomson show herd. The rest
of the pedigree is as good as that given above.
This is one of the thickest, meatiest young bulls
IT have seen. He is very low down and even and
does not fall short of best show yard standards.
Mr. Abraham has exhibited at fairs only once.
At Wichita in 1918 he sold two voung bulls at
long prices and ineidently put them in the show,
winning first and second im the Kansas specials
and second and third in the open classes.

Aamong other good herds that have been found-
ed with cows of Mr. Abraham’s breeding is that
of Owen Oneill of Windom and the excellence of
the Abraham herd is strongly reflected in the
Oueill cows. It is worth much to any man to be
abie to breed and sell foundation stock for herds
455 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

established by discriminating buyers and im this
Mr. Abraham is doing his full share toward
developing Shorthorn interests in east central
Kansas.

E. L. Moreland, Americus.—Mr. Moreland’s
farm is located in a section that has always ap-
preciated good stock. He began business in 1919
by buying choice females instead of common
ones. Crestmead Beauty 3d, one of the cows, 1s
by that excellent sive, Prince Valentine 4th. This
heifer is one of the regulation Prince Valentine
4th quality, attractive and breedy in appearance.
Her dam is Crestinead Beauty 2d by the fine sire,
Orange Model. She represents the — select
line of breeding so popular in the W. A. Better-
idge herd. Golden Rose 6th is by Wooddale
Chieftain, one of the best sons of the Choice of
Al], and her dam is by Marshall Abbotsburn 3d.
Both these bulls did service in the David Ballan-
tvne herd and were two of the best breeding bulls
in Kansas as by virtue of their individuality and
ancestry they had reason to be. Golden Rose is
a first-class Shorthorn cow and an exeellent pro-
ducer. Evangeline 5th is a four-year-old) by
Choice Orange, son of Stunkel’s Star Goods, own
brother to Diamond Goods. Her dam is by Head-
hight 2d, a son of Duncan’s Headheht, much used
by C. W. Taylor. What is probably the most
veduable cow tn Mi. Moreland’s herd and one
that would be desirable anywhere is the roan,
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Cumberland Princess, bred by J. W. MeDer-
mott and sired by Cumberland Marshal out of a
daughter of Fair Goods. This young cow has
proved herself an exceptional producer and her
pedigree is one of the most highly prized kind.

My. Moreland was exceedingly fortunate 1n se-
euring a first-class bull for service in his herd.
Golden Magnet, a vearling by Golden Search, was
the outstanding bull in the 1920 Nevius sale, and
few better bulls were sold in Kansas that year.
fe is an unusually attractive, smoothly covered
red with elegant lead and neck, very straight
lines and as good a back as one could wish. He
is massive and close to the ground. It would seem
supertiuous to say much about his ancestry for
in every remove they are closely descended from
some of the best cattle bred by Mia. Cruickshank
and as individuals they would class as outstand-
ing.

j. G. Lumley, Emporia.—Mr. Lumley has been
breeding in a small way for cight years. The
herd now consists of a half dozen females, sev-
eral of which are very good ones. Two of the
heifers are by E. H. Abraham’s bull. Rather
than keep a medium bull of his own and ob-
tain only medium results, Mr. Lumley is breed-
ing to Mr. Abrahain’s bull, and his action is
worthy of cousideration by other small breeders
who are sunilarly situated. Two years ago Mr.
Liumley bought an excellent Gallant Knight cow
460 A HISTORY OF SHLORTITORNS IN KANSAS

of Pomson Bros. She was bred to Village Mar-
shal and produced a heifer calf by that noted sire
and now has another heifer calf. This goes to
show that at a moderate expense one can fre-
quently get a start of very desirable Shorthorns.

H. C. Anderson, Americus.—Mr. Anderson’s
connection with Shorthorns dates back to 1917.
He has ten cows that came from two very reli-
able herds, those of K. H. Abraham and David
Ballantyne. The Abraham purchases were by
the Tomson bred Diamond Victor, whose dam,
Daisy Queen, was Western state fair and Ameri-
can Royal grand champion in 1911. This cow
was of the same breeding as the famous New
Year’s Dehght. The Ballantyne purchases were
by Wooddale Clicttain, one of the best sons of
The Choice of All, a noted bull by Choice Goods.
The bull now used is Bloom’s Corporal by the
grand champion, dap. Bapton Corporal and out
of Golden Bloom 2d by Lord Strathallan 207608.

Conway Rees, Emporia.—Ainong the cows of
this new herd are some elegant ones. Beeky
Barrister Jith came from 8. D. Mitchell. Her
sire is Colonel Carvel (see S. D. Mitchell
sketch) and ne more need be said to any one who
has seen Colonel Carvel. Ter dam is by Barris-
ter, the noted son of Craven Kunieht with 247
first prizes to lis credit in the show ring. Roan
signet bred by HH. 'T. Forbes has been used by Mr.
Rees with good results. He is by Royal Monarch,
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 461

an excellent bull and valuable sire for Mr. For-
bes. (See Forbes sketch.) A Leonard bred son
of Marengo’s Choice out of a dam by Rosedale’s
Choice now heads the herd. The ancestry of the
Rees cattle is of the best.

Joseph J. Sobke, Bushong.*—Four years ago
Mir. Sobke made his start and he now has
thirty females. The cattle are raised under fav-
orable conditions and are given reasonably gen-
erous treatment. In 1918 a nice addition of five
females was made by purchase from T. A. Bal-
lantyne and in 1919 a consignment from the herd
was made to the Eastern Kansas Breeders sale
at Ottawa. My. Sobke went to a splendid herd,
that of S. D. Mitchell, for his bull. He is the son
ot Vietoria’s Best, a Leonard bred son of Mar-
engo’s Choice. His dain is Orange Best 6th, a
cow bred by T. C. Robinson, the breeder of Mas-
ter of the Grove, International grand champion.

MARION COUNTY

J. R. Ely, Marion.;—The Ely family has been
raising Shorthorns in Marion county for more
than twenty-five vears and J. R. Ely just grew
into the business. He has a stock farm with
plenty of pasture, alfalfa and ensilage and is ina
position to get results from the farm feeds. His
herd is largely descended from the original

 

Telephone, Allen.
} One mile east of Aulne. Telephone, Marion or Aulne.
462 A TUSTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

purehase made by his father which came from
the best herds in the surrounding territory and
an occasional female is being added. The cows
are of good size and the twenty yearling heifers
secn im one pasture are an attractive lot. The pro-
duction of this herd furnishes an example of
what a young man did at very little more expense
than would have been incurred in raising grades
and the net profits have been much greater. In
quality and size the cattle are quite even, but
T noticed one cow that would attract attention
anywhere. She is similar in breeding to the rest
and is by Pride of Aulne, a C. W. Taylor bred
bull by Silvery Kinght. Three daughters of this
five-year-old cow are in the herd and all pro-
nuse to develop into cows of her type and quality.
As a foundation this cow and her heifers are a
fine prospect.

In general, Mr. Kly has used bulls of good
type and breeding and has obtained very sat-
isfactory results. Two eame from D. P. Nor-
ton. Crescent was by Buecanecr out of a cow
by Cora’s Commander 102268 and the other was
by Lord Lieutenant 120019. Kiieht of Tope
was by Jubilee Kuteht bred by the Kansas State
Agricultural College. Golden Mariner by imp.
Mariner and Aulne Duke by a son of the Harris
bred Vandal were two of the bulls last used.
A first-class voung bull was secured, April 1920
in Red King bred by Jos. Dunean & Son. He is
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 463

of the best of the well known Duncan breeding
and is an unusually thick, smooth individual
with a pedigree that would please the most erit-
leal. Coupled with the strong, rugged cows
raised in this good cattle country, this bull of
almost unrelated blood should get results of a
most satisfactory kind.

E. C. Schafer, Marion.*—Mr. Schafer has
heen breeding Shorthorns for twelve years, hav-
ine boueht his start from H. 8S. Martin. This
purchase inclided two cows from which the herd
is largely descended. Lady Fogathorpe 48th, a
Bates cow of B. B. & H. T. Groom’s breeding
was by Scotch Duke, a Stodder bred son of
(iwendoline’s Prince, out of a dam by Mr.
Vaile’s well known Winsonie Duke 11th. The
other cow was by Duke of Evergreen 8th, a
son of Glen Aberdeen 128626 out of imp. Glen
Ythan 4th. These Scotch crossed Bates cows
have always been reliable material for a founda-
tion and they have proved to be so for Mr.
Schafer.

Desirable bulls have been used and the condi-
tions for general development are favorable. One
of the best bulls that did service in the herd was
Comet, a son of Double Champion, the well
known son of Choice Goods and Russella, dam of
the undefeated Ruberta. Comet’s dam was by
Liberty Boy bred by Senator Wornall and sired

One mile from Canada station on Santa Fe.
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by Viscount of Anoka, the outstanding show bull
of his day. Seotty, bred by Ballantynes, was also
agood sire, Golden Crown, bred by EH. C. Steph-
enson of Chase county, was the son of Tampton’s
Crown by Hampton’s Best and Golden Crown’s
dam was by Rosemary Victor 12th, a Geo. Both-
well bred son of Grand Victor.

The present herd bull is named Albert. He
comes from John Regier’s and ke all Mr. Re-
gier’s output is very desirably bred and of good
size and quality. is sire is Dale’s Emblem by
Double Dale out of a dam by Snowflake, the sire
of Ringmaster. Albert’s dam was also bred by
Mr. Regier and is by Nonpareil Star, a prize
winning son of inp. Nonpareil Victor, a bull
with few equals as a sire in America. Albert had
heen used locally for several years and Mr.
Schafer bought him on account of his real worth.
General unprovements both in management and
lin additions to the herd have been planned.

F. N. Funk, Canada.*—Mr. Iunk’s herd con-
sists of five females bought from H.C. Stephen-
son and he will raise his cattle from these and
from others which he intends to buy. The Ste-
phenson herd was an excellent one and these
cows are no exeeption. In looking over their
pedigrees [found the source of their wealth re-
vealed in the top crosses, through such bulls as

Telephone, Marion or Tillsbore, Ship on Santa le or Rock
Island.
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Barmpton Knight, Gallant Knight and Gallant
KKnight’s Heir, all well known in the Tomson
herd, Banker, bred by John MeCoy, Golden
Knight of Enterprise, Peculated Wild Eyes, said
by good breeders to have been the equal of the
best Scotch bulls ef his day, Good Choice, sire
of grand champions, Grand Victor, Hampton’s
Best and Choice Goods. That cows from such
ancestry are valuable as breeders is an estab-
lished fact. The present herd bull is on trial as
all young bulls should be. While he promises to
be fairly satisfactory, it has already been decided
to replace him with a high-class bull.

Mr. Funk impressed me as a man of more than
average energy and ability with a determination
to breed good Shorthorns and in this he should
succeed, for he has the fundamental elements
needed for success in his lot of cows and plenty
of feed, including alfalfa.

B. L. Taylor & Son, Peabody.—Not many
herds of four years existence are as good as the
herd on Fairland Farm and not often is the
young stock so well cared for. The result of this
policy clearly forecasts an excellent herd for the
future. Among the best cows are the eight-year-
old Nevius bred Victoria by Searchlight out of a
dam by imp. Prince Oderic and the Bellows
bred Seoteh Lavender 2d by Good Choice, dam
by Victorallan and Nelhe’s Lassie from the

 

Telephoue, Marion or Hillsboro. Ship on Santa Fe or Rock Island.
466 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

C. C. Cochran herd by Grand Lad 260127, that
give some indication as to the character of this
herd. The first bull used was Buster Gazelle. He
was by Ingle Lad Jr., a son of Ingle Lad out of
Sweet Mistletoe, dam of Lespedeza Collynie, the
1919 International grand champion.

A. L. Cumberland bred by John Regier is now
being used. He is an unusually short-legged,
thickset fellow and was one of the good bulls in
the 1918 American Royal sale. His sire is Scotch
Cumberland by Cumberland’s Type recently
sold as an aged bull to S. M. Knox for $1000 and
his dam is of the excellent breeding of all Mr.
Regier’s cows. The Taylors have been success-
ful contributors to the breeders’ sales held at
Peabody and are for everything that tends to
advance Shorthorn interests, which makes them
desirable acquisitions to the fraternity.

F. P. Wilson, Peabody.—Mr. Wilson is a new
breeder that has made much more than ordinary
progress. His first Shorthorns were bought at
the Stunkel dispersion in 1916 and with these
cows he was unusually successful, the calves at
foot having sold within eight months at the
Wichita sale for enough to pay the bill.

Mr. Wilson added to his herd by purchase at
the Park E. Salter fall sale in 1918, three head:
the Nevius bred Strawberry Secret 4th by
Searchlight Jr., dam by the Hanna bred For-
tune, a son of imp. Collynie out of a Lord
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 467

Cowslip cow; Superb Augusta by Superb Omega,
a son of Uppermill Omega, dam of Norwood
Augusta by imp. Crescent Knight out of imp.
Augusta 105th and a Canada bred cow by Prince
of the Byre out of a dam by Nonpareil Cham-
pion. The recent purchase of a massive, smooth,
red cow by King Cumberland by Cumberland’s
Last was made from J. C. Robison’s herd. This
daughter and granddaughter of International
champions, if prolific, should add much value to
the establishment. Mr. Wilson owns, with Mr.
Homan, the bull, White Hope, and has been get-
ting good results from his use. Six yearling heif-
ers by him all nice roans of the same type and
very similar in appearance, prove him a first-
rate sire. Indications are that this herd will be
constantly improved.

John Unger, Peabody.—Either Mr. Unger
has used exceptional judgment in laying his
foundation or he has been lucky. Two of the
cows he bought are not only choice in quality
but they carry very attractive pedigrees. One
came from John R. Young of Marion. Her sire
was Roan Victor, a grandson of Whitehall
Sultan, out of a cow by Secret Goods by Best of
Goods. Her dam is by Clara’s Choice, son of
the Choice of All and imp. Clara 58th. The next
three crosses represent what is best in modern
Shorthorns. The other cow is from the Homan
herd. She is by White Hope, her dam by Double
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Champion, followed by imp. Ardlethen Mystery,
Hp. Invincible and imp. Hlospodar. Mr. Unger
willadd a few choice females and until he secures
a first-class bull of his own he will use DB. I.
Taylor’s herd bull. (Sce Taylor sketch.) Both
Mr. and Mrs. Unger are enthusiastic about
Shorthorns and nothing less than an excellent
herd will satisfy them.

MARSHALL COUNTY

H. J. Bornhorst, Irving.—Mr. Bornhorst is a
man of unusual energy and ability. Ten years
ago he began breeding Shorthorns on a rented
farm near Marysville and the character of his
herd as seen in 1919 indicates clearly that he was
a good judge of beef cattle when he bought his
foundation stock. That he is a first-class cattle
man is shown by the admirable way im which
he handles his stock. Harly in 1920 he moved to
a big ranch which he bought near Lvvinge and on
this land he has what is almost a cattle paradise
where Shorthorns will do their best.

Mr. Bornhorst has a lot of cows that are de-
scended from choicest ancestry, consequently the
bulls from his herd can be classed as dependable
because whatever merit they may possess is in-
herited and almost certainly will be transmitted
to their get. Some of these cows are bred along
fashionable and popular lines and practically all
are vood individuals. LP was especially impressed
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 469

with Missie Dale, an Owen Kane production.
She is a daughter of Marengo Dale, a son of
Double Dale, one of the most noted of Avondale’s
get and the sire of maiy great herd bulls. Mar-
engo Dale is out of Lady Fragrant, a daughter
of imp. Lady Marengo, and the dam of Missie
Dale is by King Archer, a son of Ceremonious
Archer, one of the outstanding bulls of the breed.
That this cow is a valuable breeding proposition
is shown in her white bull calf, a young fellow of
much promise.

The bull now being used is Roan Goods, one of
the best things produced by G. F. Hart. He
would stand high in a fairly strong show and
looks every inch like a good breeding bull and his
calves, as far as can be judged at a voung age, in-
dicate that he will fulfill all that his appearance
promises. Tis sire, Scotch Knight, is one of the
best sons of imp. Scottish Sentinel and he is out
of one of Mx. Hart’s best cows. Mr. Bornhorst
is among the most optinustic men I have ever
met for he does not seem to think there is any
such thing as being unable to succeed. His fond-
ness for Shorthorns is part of his nature and it
would be out of place to question his suecess.

A. H. Gallup, Biue Rapids.—In 1888 George
Gallup bought Jenme Kivers from the herd of
R. TE. Scott and from this cow is descended the
ecutive herd now on Hillcrest Shorthorn Farm.
Thousands of dollars worth of eattle have been
470 A HISTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

sold besides. This is the only case of which I
know where a whole large herd is de
scended from one cow. Among the bulls used
was Violet Lad by Golden Lad, a son of
Robert Miller’s great Golden Rule and the
noted cow Germanica 2d, a daughter of imp.
Germanica. Another was Defendant, a son of
Tomson’s Crusader by Barmpton Knight and
out of Daisy of Valley Grove by Lavender Prince
out of Forest Daisy 2d. New Year’s Delight,
that as a vearling heifer was grand ehampion
everywhere in the West and junior champion at
the International, was out of Forest Daisy 2d.
As Crusader was by Barmpton Knight, the re-
lationship of Defendant to this great heifer is
very close. The present herd bull is Village
Victor bred by Tomson Bros., sired by Village
Marshal and out of a cow by the H. C. Dunean
bred Orange Magnet 263743, second dam by his
well known Headlight. Village Victor is of the
large type with heavy bone and plenty of stretch.
He is smooth, symmetrical, and splendidly cov-
ered. He should cross well with the smooth,
medium-size cows in the herd and add a little
seale, always a desirable attribute.

Griffee Bros., Marysville—Although these
men began business only two years ago they
have gotten together quite a nice herd. The cows
ave sired by True Goods by the famous sire,
Fair Goods, son of Choice Goods and Ruberta ;
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 471

Blythesome Baron by Victor Baron out of imp.
Blythesome 27th; Lord Hampton by My Choice
by Good Choice, sire of the champion, Diamond
Goods; Crown Prince by Royal Diadem a son of
nnp. Red Lady 5th and others of like quality. A
daughter of Fair Acres Sultan is by virtue of her
sire one of the attractions of the herd. She
has not been well grown out but is straight and
snnooth and is a good producer. The cows as a
whole have straight lines and fleshing quality
and the condition of the calves indicates that
they are heavy milkers.

Two bulls are being used. One is Secret
Sultan 2d bred by Achenbach Bros. and sired by
their well known Intense Sultan. His dam is by
Secret Conqueror, son of imp. Conqueror out of
a Lord Lovel dam, second dam by Choice Goods.
He is a big, beefy fellow, strong in the vital
points but a little lacking in finish. His calves,
however, appear to be unusually smooth and are
quite promising. The younger bull in service
is by a son of Maxwalton Rosedale out of a
daughter of imp. Crescent Knight. He is strong
in the blood of Barmpton Knight and old Lord
Mayor. The outlook for the success of Griffee
Bros. is favorable.

J. M. Nielson, Marysville—Mr. Nielson is
secretary of the Blue Valley Shorthorn Breeders
Association. He has been breeding for seven
vears and has a desirable lot of cows, not so
472 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

unifornias he wishes but of good quality. An out-
standing, laree red that has been a satisfactory
breeder is by Baby Conqueror bred by Senator
Wornall by The Conqueror, the son of Choice
Goods and imp. Clara 58th. An excelent white
two-year-old is by Pleasant Dale Sultan by Lav-
ender Lord. She has a good heifer calf. Another
Pleasant Dale Sultan heifer is Lady Sultana, by
some considered the best thing on the farm. The
S. B. Ameoats herd furnished a yvearling by
Type’s Goods, the son of Cumberland Type. Her
dam is by Vietor Sultan 2d out of a Godwin dam,
elving her unexeclled breeding from almost any
point of view.

A roan bull, bred by HH. TH. Holnes, was
in service for two seasons. He was by Clipper
Model 444189 and his dam was strong in the
blood of the noted sire, Captain Archer and other
good bulls. A new bull was purchased at the
1920 Central sale. He is a beautiful roan bred
by H. I. Gaddis and was a winner in the show
which preceded the sale. He is a calf of un-
usual finish and smoothness of flesh and comes
from a line of cows noted as producers in Mr.
Gaddis’ herd. His sire, Seerect Baron, is by
Snowstorm, probably the best breeding som of
Snowflake.

Dan O. Cain, Beattie—Mr. Cain began his
Shorthorn operations when a boy and he still
has a lone life of usefulness before hin. His
A HISTORY OF SILORTHORNS IN KANSAS 473

foundation stock is carefully seleeted. Cassan-
dvea Maid was bred by Henry Kupper and sired
by imp. Scottish Sentinel. Nonpareil Alice, five
years old, is by Suowflake’s Stamp, son of Snow-
flake, sive of the three times International
grand champion, Ringmaster. Birdie Gloster
Sth, a six-year-old red, is by Scotch Knight, a son
of imp. Scottish Sentinel. The cows range in
size from medium to Jarge and the twenty fe-
males in the herd inchide some animals of choice
breeding that are being properly cared for. The
first bull used was Orange Banker 2d by Dale’s
Ciunberland. White Goods 825293 is now in ser-
vice and is considered by Mr. Cain a splendid
bull. He is by Gloster’s Goods, son of Ruberta’s
Goods, the sire of much high-class stock shown
successtully all over the central West. Mr.
Cain should be able to make his Shorthorn busi-
ness a verv creditable one and reap a reward
such as comes to the man who lays a strong foun-
dation and cares well for his stock.

McePHERSON COUNTY

Owen Oneill, Windom.—When in company
with V. M. Eminert, county agent, I drove up to
My. Oneill’s, we saw a last October bull in the
lot with a halter on and he looked good. This
is a trifling incident and J mention it only to
show that the cattle on this farm are bemeg hand-
led with a view toward real development. We
474 A HISTORY OF SHORTITORNS IN KANSAS

had been seeing young bulls left to shift and to
fight fhes and this one that had an owner who
did the rustling was clegant in comparison.

Mr. Oneill has been breeding Shorthorns for
six years. He has been successful in produc-
ing quite good ones but his greatest success lay
in a deal made in 1919 whereby he acquired ten
young cows bred by EH. H. Abraham. (See Abra-
ham sketch.) I saw a number of these cows and
they are just the kind the experienced man would
seleet if he were looking for a lot of prospective
breeding cows. They are to be the basis of future
operations. In their ancestry they have the
benefit of the splendid lines of bulls used in the
Abraham herd, prominent among which are
Diamond Victor, whose sire was sold by Tomson
Bros. for $2000 in the days when such sales were
almost scusational, and whose dam, Daisy Queen
by Barmpton Kiight was a Western state fair
and American Royal champion. Another bull of
national reputation, entering ito the immediate
ancestry of these cows, 1s Bessie’s Heim by Or-
anee Viscount, the sire of Searchlight and out of
np. Bessie 51st, the dam of White Goods. (See
S. D. Mitchell sketch. )

Mr. Oneill has been equally fortunate in get-
ting a herd bull. Lavender Search is a remark-
ably smooth, even, well finished fellow, with a
very deep body on unusually short legs. He has
proved a breeder of good stock and has inherited
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 475

this quality as well as his power of transmission.
His sire is Searchlight, one of the most popular
of Kansas bulls. His dam is by Choice Goods,
one of the greatest show and breeding bulls of
America. His second dam is by imp. Lavender
Lad and his third dam by Golden Rule. Laven-
der Search did four years service in Fred Wal-
ton’s excellent herd.

Luther Elmquist, Lindsborg.—Mr. Elmquist
is comparatively a new man in the Shorthorn
business. He bought a few cows of Peterson
Bros. and of other local breeders, on which he
used a Tomson bred bull with good results. He
is how using a thick, short-legged bull by Orange
Lovell, a son of Henry Stunkel’s Victor Orange,
one of the best southwestern bulls of his day.
His dam is by Valiant 346162, whose sire, St.
Clair, was by imp. Crescent Knight.

Mi. Elinguist impressed me as a man of quick
apprehension, with a realization of the need of
good cattle on the farms in his locality. He holds
sound views on live stock management and com-
prehends what many men fail to see, that one
‘an not expect cattle to grow without sufficient
feed to produce growth. He is enthusiastic
about Shorthorus and understands that the bull
is half the herd. He is situated so as to carry out
a liberal policy in the care and management of
his cattle and satisfactory returns may be ex-
pected from the cows he has selected.
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Carl Johnson, Inman.*—In Mr. Johnson’s
herd there is a promising heifer a little more
thana year old. She is by the excellent Cumber-
land bull, Marquis Cumberland. (See Willis
Colman sketch.) As though it were a matter of
sinall amportance Mr. Johnson told me that she
had stood third or fourth at the Kansas State
Fair last fall. From what I have seen of the
Marquis Cumberland stock, I should think this
heifer would make an extra good one. The bull
in use is by Victor Archer, that made a reputa-
tion for Dr. Stewart. Mr. Johnson intends to
build up a first-class herd and he has the facil-
‘tes for doing so.

Anton Peterson, Lindsborg.—Mr. Peterson is
the successor of Tnewert Peterson and of Peter-
son Bros. He has twenty good cows and their
calves. These cows are nearly all the tops of
the Peterson Bros. herd and they have plenty
of size. They are descended from a line of
bulls beginning with such sires as Col. Harris’
Golden Knight, Geo. Bothwell’s Grand Vietor,
np. Thistletop and nap. Collynie, all annals
of national reputation. The use of good bulls
on this foundation has given satisfactory results.
Mr. Peterson is looking for a ligh-class bull
and with the herd reduced in size he is planning
to vive his cattle such attention as will develop

Telephone and station, Windom. Ship oon Santa le or Rock

Island.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 4T7

first-class cattle. His farm is well suited to the
work.

MIAMT COUNTY

Frank W. Wilson, Wellsville—Mr. Wilson
has been known as a breeder of good Short-
horns since 1914, but it was not until the day
of the Nevius sale in 1920 that he made pur-
chases which attracted the attention of breeders
over the entire territory when three of the best
females in the excellent offering fell to his bid-
ding. Winifred Maid 4th is by Emma’s Valen-
tine, a son of Prince Valentine 4th, out of the
cow that produced the dam of the grand cham-
pion, Lady Supreme. She is large and attrac-
tive and Mr. Wilson secured a prize in this
two-year-old and her calf. Searchlight Maid, a
daughter of Searchlight Jr. and out of the best
cow in the Nevius herd, is a show cow and an
exceptional producer, as her November calf at
foot plainly indicated. Victoria S. is by that well
known sire New Goods, by Choice Goods out of
a Collynie cow. Her dam is by Choice Goods,
second dam by imp. Baron Cruickshank. <A bhet-
ter lot of foundation cows could hardly be found.

Rosedale’s Secret is the bull used. He comes
from Robert Russel’s herd and is by his ex-
cellent sire, Walnut Type. (See Russell sketch. )
His dam is the splendid cow, Queen’s Gift 528-
258 by Rosedale’s Gift. Mr. Wilson has the
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knowledge and expericnee, as well as a suit-
able location to enable him to score a signal
success with his cattle.

MITCHELL COUNTY

Meall Bros., Cawker City—Meall Bros. have
one of the large, well known herds of the state
and their operations cover a period of twenty-
five years. The cattle receive the constant atten-
tion of the three brothers who comprise the firm.
They have provided all facilities for handling
cattle ino a practical, economical and careful
way and their system results in the production of
young stock so raised as to do well for the pur-
chaser and yet to have sufficient development.
Further improvements are being considered and
these mature men of successful experience, still
in the prime of life, will do things in the future
that will count for Shorthorn advancement not
only in Mitchell county but ina larger territory.

The Meall herd is a good one as a whole, but it
lacks somewhat in uniformity both in the essen-
tial and in the less important points. This is
doubtless largely due to the fact that in recent
years several exeecllent cows from different
sources have been added. It is from these, rather
than from the old foundation of a quarter of a
century back, that the herd of the future will
be built. The use of bulls of uniform type
A HISTORY OF SITORTHORNS IN KANSAS 479

and of good size can safely be depended upon to
do the work and is doing it.

I saw at least ten cows of very choice breeding
that should be good enough for any man and the
calves they are raising qualify them as first-
class Shorthorn cows. Glen Hall Aconite 4th
211769 is by Choice Prince, a son of Prince of
Tebo Lawn out of Good Lassie by Choice Goods.
Her dam is by Leader 378375 and her second
dain is by the grand champion, Master of the
Grove. Glen Hall Aconite is not only a splendid
individual but is the dam of several of the best
heifers in the herd. Fairy Dawn by Upland
Viscount (see below) is an extra smooth cow.
Her dam is by Snowflake’s Star by Snowflake
and, her second dam is by imp. Prince Oderie.
Highland Mary, a roan by Snowflake’s Star out
of a Prince Oderie dam, attracts attention on
sight and is one of the highly prized members
of the herd. Miss Marigold 8d, a large red of
elegant appearance with a big, deep, smooth
body would be considered attractive anywhere.
She is by Victorious King by Mr. Gentry’s Vie-
torious and her dam is by Lord Mayor out of
imp. Marigold 50th.

Two fairly good bulls had been in use. The
desire to own a strictly first-class herd bull was
eratified at the State Association sale at Man-
hattan in 1920 where Meall Bros. purchased Lav-
ender Marshal for $1025, the top price paid for
480 A HISTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

a bull. Lavender Marshal was grand champion
of the state show. He is by Tomson’s outstand-
ing sire, Village Marshal, out of a Rees bred
heifer strong in the blood of Ruberta’s Goods
and Choice Goods. The selection of this calf
seems wise as his ancestry is second to none in
America.

H. Borger & Son, Cawker City.—F rom a pur-
chase of two heifers bought for less than $100
fifteen years ago, H. Borger & Son have forged
ahead until their herd is one of the best in north
central Kansas. This growth has been accom-
plished by later purchases of choicely bred stock,
by using good bulls, and by a Hberal system of
development whereby medium size and uniform-
ity have been attained. Golden Dream is an
excellent cow by Athenian Coronet 4th, a first-
class bull by imp. Bapton Coronet out of Augus-
ta 111th by Seoteh Fame. Her dam was by Prime
Minister, a son of imp. Prince of Perth out of a
full sister to the International grand champion,
Lavender Viscount. <A daughter of Golden
Dream by Ury Dale is one of the best things in
the herd. Rosedale’s Jill is a choice daughter
of Maxwalton Rosedale, the full brother to the
erand champion, Whitehall Rosedale. Her dam,
Jessica, is still one of the best producers in the
herd. Golden Maid, one of the valuable cows
on the farm, is by Golden Gloster, a son of imp.
Daydreams Pride. Ter dam is Ruby Lass 2d
A LISTORY OF SILIORTHORNS IN KANSAS 451
by imp. Trout Creek Clan Alpine and out of
ip. Ruby Lass. Lassie’s Choice is one of the
lughly prized cows. She is by the International

 

 

 

 

FAIR CHAMPION AND THE FIRST CALF HE SIRED

This cal¥ now heads the herd of Is. A. Cory & Sons.

vrand champion, Lavender Viscount and out of
Buchan Lassie 6th by Buchan Hero.

Although in the early period of the herd’s ex-
istence good bulls from good herds were used, yet
advancement has becn made in this respect.
About six years ago Borger & Son bought of
Tiowell Rees the rean, Fame’s Goods, a son of
Ruberta’s Goods, one of the great sires of the
United States. Fame’s Goods is out of imp.
Princess Fame. He proved an excellent sire and
was followed by Fair Champion, a son of the
482 A THSTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

noted Fair Acres Sultan. Fair Champion is
very popular among Sherthora men and will
do tis share toward boosting the Hair Aeres
Sultan faamly. One of his daughters from
the Borger herd, only a little past.a year old,
sold at the Royal sale in 1919 for a big price
written in four figures.

George W. Bemis, Cawker City.—These cattle
are exceptionally well kept. The cows are even
in size and conformation and conditions for de-
veloping a first-class herd are unusually favor-
able. Ury Dale, a well known son of Avondale,
has done service in the herd and has left an
hpress for good, quite apparent to the visitor.
Mated with daughters of such bulls as Prime
Minister by amp. Prince of Perth out of an own
sister to Lavender Viscount; Proud Orion, T.
P. Babst’s son of imp. Daydreams Pride; Gold-
en Prince, the Dryden bred son of Prince Glos-
ter, sire of the $10000 Prince Tnperial and num-
erous others of similar quality, results could
not be disappointing. The output of the Bemis
herd has been well appraised by the buying pub-
hie wherever offered.

C. L. Hendricks, Glen Elder.—‘Shorthorns
For beef and milk’? is Ma. Hendricks’ slogan and
with ten females and an outstanding bull he will
proceed in the production of that kind of cows.
Matchless Collynie was first prize bull in the
Milking Shorthorn class at the Denver Live
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 483

Stock Show in 1919. He comes from the Kansas
State Agricultural College and is by Matchless
Dale, sire of more prize winning and grand
champion beef stecis at the Royal and Interna-
tional than any other trio of bulls of the breed.
Matchless Collynie’s dam, Cream Toast, would
make a strong show in beef classes, yet she gave
more milk during the test now under way at the
colicge than any other of the twenty good milk-
ing cows in the herd. Her sire is Ingle Lad,
every one of whose daughters is a great breeder
of beefy Shorthorns and every one is a heavy
mulker.

=. W. Runft, Cawker City.—Myr. Runft is a
new man in the Shorthorn business. He has
youth, a good location in which to build up a
herd, and the determination to have a good herd.
His cows carry prestige through their sires. He
has daughters of Missie’s Sultan, son of Victor
Sultan out of Sinnissippi Missie; of Fame’s
Goods, son of Ruberta’s Goods and imp. Prine-
ess Fame and of Sir Hugo by Snowflake’s Stamp
390358 out of Fairy Daybreak 2d. His herd bull
is Happy Prince, a Tomson bred son of Prince
Valentine 4th, a show and breeding bull of the
first class. Happy Prince is out of Harmony
isth by Golden Day, half brother to Sweet Mis-
tletoe, dam of the $4100 Imperial Mistletoe and
Lespedeza Collyiie, Internatioual grand cham-
pion in 1919.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY

H. M. Hill, Lafontaine.*—Those who have
read the H. M. Hill sketch in Part I will be aware
of the fact that a splendid foundation for a real
Shorthorn herd was well laid. Those who have
not read it ave asked to do so before reading this.
Syeamore Springs Farm is almost an ideal home
for cattle. The best quality of grass, an abun-
dance of spring water, good alfalfa land, two
silos and natural shelter furmish the means of
producing the best kind of cattle.

About forty ligh-class females and two bulls
are kept on the farm. Some of these cows have
an individual history, not only as great speci-
mens of the breed but as great producers. A
number of them are considered foundation cows
for the herd. Among those so classed is the big
rean, Wistful, by Collynie out of Wistaria by
Royal Knight, second dain, Spirea by imp. Royal
Pirate. (See Hanna sketch.) She has to her
eredit a dozen calves. Every one of her bulls
went to head a good herd at a good price and her
heifers grew into good cows that are regular
breeders. This cow, though filteen years old,
suckled a calf last summer and hardly looked her
years. Her pedigree, whether from the view-
point of present popularity or of individual
merit in ancestry could not be excelled and a lot

Ship on Mo, Pae., Santa le or lrisco,
 

MASTER OF THE DALES
486 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

of young cows of her breeding, size and quality
would be almost invaluable.

T might continue in this way with a nunber of
the cows but shall call attention in detail
to only a few. Princess Columbia, an eleven-
year-old, 1800 pound cow on grass alone, is the
only daughter of Prince of Collynie left in the
herd. One of her bulls, Kansas Prinee, is the
sire of a sensational lot of calves shown by O.
O. Massa at the Southeast Kansas Shorthorn
Show at Coffeyville in April 1919. Another, a
three-year-old bull now used by Barrett & Land,
is one of the best young bulls I have seen and
reminds me of old Prince of Collynie, his grand-
sire. Another Collynie cow in the herd is the
roan, Emily, sold as a heifer to Bellows Bros.
for $500. She raised the bulls that for three
years topped the Bellows sales and was bought by
Mr. Hill in one of their sales as a ten-year-old
cow for $1000. Syeamore Spiraea, also by Col-
lynie and an own sister to Prince of Collynie, is
another massive 1800 pound breeding cow with
numerous descendants in the herd. Still an-
other Collynie cow is Sarcasm that went from
Mr. Hanna’s to Bellows Bros. and found her way
back to Sycamore Springs. She is a typical big
Shorthorn.

This sketch might become tiresome to those
who are not Shorthorn enthusiasts if IT should
undertake to tell of .each of the animals,
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 487

individually, especially since the cows mentioned
are foundation stock and will suffice to indicate
the quality of the herd. A valuable addition was
made at the Holmes-Harris sale in November
1918. Crystal Maid, bred by J. F. Stodder and
sired by Captain Archer, one of the best bulls of
the breed and out of the show cow, Innocence, by
Mr. Nelson’s inp. Bapton Arrow, was bought at
the top price of the sale. This cow is not only by
the sive of show stock of international repute and
out of a show cow sired by a wonderful bull, but
she herself has a showyard record not equalled
by any other Kansas cow now living. In addition
to this she is very prolifie and an excellent breed-
er and she, as well as the calf annually shown
with her at the Kansas State Fair, has excited
the adnuration of the Shorthorn fraternity.

At the Gillespie sale where a rare collection of
top cows called out buyers from many states, Mr.
Hill bought three excellent cows by Hampton
Spray. They were all bred to Roan Lord,
the son of Maxwalton Roan Lady and were
selected with the view of getting a herd bull for
use at Sycamore Springs. Three bull calves are
now following these cows in the pasture and are
being closely watched for development. That
they are good prospects goes without saying.

The sketch above was written in June 1919 and
it applies now as forcibly as it did at that time.

Mr. Fill is not partial to any blood lines to
 

 

 

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A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 489

the point of placing individual merit second. He
recognizes, full well, that the Scotch cattle saved
the American Shorthorn, but he refuses to accept
the theory that all merit rests in the so-called
Seotch families. On this farm are found several
very valuable cows and their descendants that
come from Mr. Vaile’s noted importation from
the J. I. D. Jefferson herd. These cows are by
meeret Archer, a full brother te Wistful, men-
tioned above. The two-vear-old heifer, that im
Joho Kramer’s herd won top honors and sold at

 

 

 

 

 

GAZELLE 8TH AND CALF

Noted prize winners have come from this family.
the American Royal Sale in November 1918 for
41250 for export to South America was out of
one of these cows and by Mistletoe Archer, a bull
of My. Hill’s breeding. He is selling with
490 A TESTORY OF SELORTILORNS IN KANSAS

regularity lis calves from these and other cows
of als breeding at the same scale of prices as
those from Scotch famihes. As amatter of fact,
the blood lines and the individual merit are the
Sane,

Among the bulls in recent use at Sycamore
Springs was Mistletoe Archer by Prince Royal,
Mr. Hanna’s son of imp. Collynie and imp. Prin-
cess Royal 62d. Mistletoe Archer’s dam was

 

 

 

 

 

A SAMPLIN Ol SYCAMORI
SPRINGS PRODUCTION

Sweet Mistletoe also by Collynie and out of imp.
Mistletoe 15th. Sweet Mistletoe is not only an
own sister to Captain Archer and Pride of Col-
lynie, but she is the dam of the $4100 Tmperial
Mistletoe and of Lespedeza Collynie, the 1919 Tn-
ternational grand See Mist Helge Archer
A HISTORY OF SHUORTHORNS IN KANSAS 491

proved an exceptional sire and several young
cows of his get are on the farm.

Tn 1915 it seemed advisable to introduce a bull
of new blood for use on the strongly bred Col-
lvnie cows and Master of the Dales by Avondale
was bought of Forbes & Son. A full brother to
this bull made quite a reputation in the Robbins
herd and the calves in the Forbes herd by Mas-
ter of the Dales gave Mr. Hill reasonable assur-
ance that the bull would be a success with him. In
this he was not disappointed for Master of the
Dales has corrected the only serious fault ureed
against the get of imp. Collynic, a plainness in
the hind quarter and, while I have seen few of his
eet older than yearlings, T was much mnpressed
with their uniformity. They have been in great
demand at good prices which indicates that they
are prime favorites with the buying pubhe. In
numerous instances a high price has been fixed
on the heifers purposely to retain them in the
herd, but even then buyers have taken most of
them away.

It may readily be inferred from the preceding
statements that Mr. Hill holds in high esteem
the get of Mistletoe Archer. In fact he was sold
before his real worth as a sire had been demon-
strated. The old bull being no longer available,
Mr. Hill has bought back one of his sons and he
is being liberally used this season (1920). This
bull is a big, stretchy roan out of Ingle’s Secret
499 A THSTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

by Ingle Lad and, barring the possibility of too
close a relationship with the Syeamore Springs
cows, he should prove an outstanding sive, for his
nmnmediate ancestry consists of Shorthorns re-
markable for size, beefiness, milking quahty and
sinooth covering of flesh.

T have perhaps spoken at greater length of Mr.
Thill’s operations because T have had occasion to

 

 

 

 

 

PWO OF THEE COWS THAT LET SYCAMORE SPRINGS STOCK
FARM AND MADIC A RIEPUTATION AS GREAT PRODUCERS

Left—Princess Airdrie: sold to go to Montana where she pro-
duced cattle that were excellent winners in the big western shows,

Right—Sweet Mistletoe, sold to Lespedeza farm ino Tennessee
where she produced Tmpertal Mistletoe, leading Amertenn show bull,
sold for $4100 and Lespedeza Collynie, the 1919 Tnternational grand
champion,

  

become fanuhar with his work and from fre-
quent inspection T have come to know the herd
quite well. I night suggest that had he kept
his best females, mstead of putting a price on
A HISTORY OF SHORTEHORNS IN KANSAS 493

them and lettine them go, in most cases where
they were lost to the breed, le would have sub-
stantially advanced his interests as a breeder.

Wheu L think back over the great array of
eows and heifers that have been sold from this
herd, that if retained would have given material
such as few breeders ever gather together, I am
inchned to state as my best judgement that had
Mr. Hall’s make-up been such as to exclude com-
mereialism, the mycaniwore Springs herd would
stand today with few rivals. I do not question
his success as a breeder for not many men in
Kansas can show results such as he has shown. I
am only thiuking that selling age COWS as Syca-
more Seeret, Collynie Viol sweet Mistletoe
and others 1 could eae - pricing his best
young cows and heifers only to have them taken
of f the farm, may be good business but it certain-
ly has limited his possibilities as a breeder.

Mr. Hill, while enthusiastic for Shorthorns, is
also a leader in all thines pertaining to rural ie.
He is a farmer in the larger sense. He is presi-
dent of the County Farm Bureau and always the
right hand man of the county agent. His activ-
ities extend to everything im which bis commun-
ity and his county aud his neighboring counties
are interested. Fourteen vears of quite intimate
acquaintance justilies the assertion that south-
east IKansas could ill spare Howard M. Hill and
his fine family.
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O. O. Massa & Sons, Jefferson——Mr. Massa
has a herd of more than forty females, several of
Which are additions made in 1920. Princess Vio-
let 4th by Prince Pavonia has size and 1s an ex-
ceptional breeding cow. ILer bulls have gone to
head Shorthorn herds and three of her heifers
are among the best cows on the farm. Fashion-
cette Tth is by Wooddale Chieftain, one of the best
sous of Mr. Gentry’s Choice of All. Fer dam
was by Lord Mayor 8d of the same breeding as
New Year’s Delelht, grand champion everywhere
inthe West including the American Royal. An-
other of the valuable cows is Alma 2d. Iler sire
was by tinp. Collyme out of a daughter of imp.
Lord Cowslip and her dam was an elegant large
cow by Violet’s Kinght 177894. Matchless Dale,
the grand old son of Avondale with more prize
winning stecrs to his credit than has any other
bull of any breed that ever lived, has a splendid
three-year-old daughter in the herd, Miss Nom-
ince. She comes from the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College and her dam was from W. I.
Wood’s noted Olio herd. Iler twelveanonth-old
heifer is a promising roan by Narcissus Type,
one of the best sous of Cumberland ype. iHim-
blen’s Alicia is a 1600 pound beefy daughter of
the Dawe show bull, Diamond Hmblem. his
cow is) Feminine and breedy in appearance
and is frome the best ancestry. A remarkable

pair are the roan heifer Laura Belle and her
A HISTORY OF SUORTHORNS IN KANSAS 495

six-month-old heifer calf. This voung cow is only
twenty-six months old and both she and the calf
are large and exceptionally smooth. Tndications
are that they will be very valuable. Carrie Rosa-
mond, two crosses from C. EB. Leonard’s Charm-
ing Rosamond, is by Senator, a bull bred at Elm-
endort and sired by Marino’s Champion. Her
dam is of the regular Leonard line of breeding.
Sultan’s Beauty, a inassive four-vear-old roan, 18
by the Tuternational grand champion, True Sul-
tan. This cow has an unusual spring of rib, a
deep body and a very thiek covering of flesh and
is a splendid daughter of the great sire. Royal
si Vi an by Kwing Bros. is an elegant 1600
pote cow that is suckling a bull ealf by that out-
eer sire of prize winners, Linwood Dale.
This calf is big and lusty but he was three and
one-half months old before he could take all the
nulk his mother gave. Asa typical dual-purpose
Shorthorn cow Royal Queen has few equals. One
of the elegant females on the farm is the three-
year-old red, Lady of Walnut Grove 2d, bred by
W. A. MeMchon of Missouri. At least two good
judges have pronounced this heifer superb. Her
sire is by Sultan’s Heir, a son of Glenbrook Sul-
tan. Her dam is by Prince Mistletoe, a son of
My. Hanna’s Prince Royal out of Mistletoe 2d,
an own sister to Sweet Mistletoe, dam of two of
America’s most noted bulls, also to Captain Arch-
er, famous sire of show stock for J. F. Stodder

 
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and to Pride of Collynie, a great sire in Jolin
McCoy’s herd. Her second dam is by Golden
Lancaster, almost a full brother to Lavender Vis-
count. This cow is suckling a sevenanonth-old
heifer that is a first-class show and breeding
prospeet and the cow herself is carrying smooth,
heavy flesh on grass alone. Another of the best
things on the farm is a red by Village Archer, a
son of Greee’s Villager, out of a daughter of
Barmpton Kinght. JLer dam is also by Barmp-
ton Knight followed by Gallant Knight and Vis-
count of Anoka, giving her in the first four
crosses four of the best bulls that could be found
west of the Mississippi. The cows in the entire
herd ave well loaded with the best blood of the
breed. They are good producers and are being
bred to one of the best sires ever owned in south-
cast Kansas, the roan, Kansas Prince.

Kansas Prince is a massive son of Mistletoe
Archer. He is open to shght criticism at each
end but he has a great middle and stands near
the ground. Asa sive Kansas Prince has few
equals in the state. Every one of his calves I
have seen is almost faultless and, reeardless of
the class of cows, the calves are show stock of the
better type and great growers and fleshers. At
the Southeast Kansas Shorthorn Show in Cot-
Feyville the Kansas Prince calves took seeond
place in only one instanee. It seemed next to
useless to show against them. The oldest of
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these calves at twenty months weighed 1550
pounds and he had not been pushed heavily.
iXansas Prince comes by this worth honestly. His
sire is by Prince Royal, son of imp. Collynie and
nnp. Princess Royal 62d and out of Sweet Mis-
tletoe, the dam of Lespedeza Collynie, grand
champion at the international in 1919, The dan
of Kansas Prince is Princess Columbia, an 1800
pound daughter of Prince of Collynie, one of the
most remarkable, big, beefy bulls I have ever
seen. He, too, was by imp. Collviie and his dam
was by Royal Knight, probably the best son of
the great cow, imp. Princess Alice.

I. L. Swinney, Independence.*—Mr. Swin-
ney’s original purchases were mainly of stock
coming through the Hill and Hanna herds and
typieal of their lines of breeding. One of the
splendid females bought was the Hanna bred
Sempstress, a big roan of excellent quality by the
show bull imp. Inglewood. This cow, bought
hi¢h at an American Royal sale, was the dam of a
mmmber of bulls, one of which was Inglelynie,
well known in the herds of J. T. Bayer and Laub-
ey Bros. When seventeen years old, Sempstress
produced a heifer calf, sold for $500 at twelve
months in the 1919 Independence sale. A nuin-
ber of her other descendants are still retained.
A later purchase was Secret Goods, a large

 

Rural Route 5; near Crane Station on Santa Fe; telephone,
Elk City.
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showy cow bred by G. Ef. Hasebrook, sired by the
Grood Choice bull, Roan Goods, out of a dani by
Lavender Viscount 2d. A Tomson bred daugh-
ter of Archer, dam by Gallant Kaight, and a
MeDermott bred daughter of Mair Goods furnish
an idea of the blood lines aequired by purchase
in recent vears and add to the attractiveness of
the herd.

The bulls used have been such as to cuhanece
the value of the blood lines and conserve the high
standard of the eattle. Captain, a son of Col-
lynie out of Mr. Hanna’s excellent cow Lilac,
(sce Tanna sketch) was one of the best breeders
and the few heifers E have seen by him were of
outstanding merit. Fortune was another Col-
lynie bull used liberally. Royalist, a son of
Prince Royal, was another, Prince Royal, him-
self, was used for a while and Mr. Swinney also
used the well known Sultan Vietor. A few more
bulls, all of Hike quality and breeding, have seen
service in the herd.

Among the best things recently acquired are
five heifers bought in 1919.) They are attractive
in appearance and their pedigrees will please.
With the wealth of ancestry represented, Mr.
Swinney will be able to attain any reasonable
degree of success Tor which he works. The eat-
{le sold from is herd have responded to Feeding
and have almost invariably been a good buy for
the purehaser.
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John Frye, Independence.—Mr. Frye is one of
the men who by reason of environment is able to
secure great results in the production of live
stock. [is location ona farm with excellent pas-
ture and heavy crops of alfalfa and forage, is
ideal. Furthermore, Mr. Frye is equipped by
vears of training in farming and he has had
almost a life association with Shorthorns. Mrs.
Frye is a daughter of one of the old Shorthorn
families of Towa and was a near neighbor of pro-
ninent Shorthorn breeders. Both Ma. and Mrs.
Frye are active physically and mentally and have
unbounded enthusiasm for the work. ‘‘We have
been wheating it and getting this high priced al-
falfa off these war times and have negleeted our
cattle,’ Mr. Five said to me, and results proved
the correctness of his assertion.

Never-the-less, the Frye cattle are worthy of
more than passing notice. There are now eight-
een good females in the herd, nearly all de-
scended from a Potts Emma cow, Lady Emina
by Ingle Lad, purchased from H. M. Hill some
years ago. This cow, in common with most
Ingle Lad cows, was a great milker and
her descendants in the herd are a_splen-
did let of cows of good size that would
excite the adimiration of even a dairyman,
yet they are of true Shorthorn type and repre-
sent the class of cattle needed by the average
farmer on a small farm who must produce both
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beef and mutk. A recent and valuable addition
Is i young cow of Mis. Grace Blake’s
breeding, sired by Lavender Lord. Shortly after
Mr. Frye had purehased this heifer she gave
birth to a first-class heifer calf by imp. Bapton
Corporal. A Bellows bred bull has been used for
several years and, being desirous of continuing
the building of a high-class herd, Mr. Frye is
on the Jookout for a good tried sire which will
be all that is needed in his operations.

P. P. Asher & Son, Independence.—Tlic Ashcr
farm is favorably loeated for the production of
cattle. Tn initial purchases made at the Coffey-
ville sale in April 1919 the Ashers showed un-
usual diserimination and as a result they have
a small herd that would attract attention any-
where. They further showed their Judgment and
enterprise by sending females to Syeamore
Springs to be bred to Master of the Dales. Their
purchases ineluded the good young cow, May
Rose by the splendid show and breeding bull,
Lord Mayor 3d, with bull calf at foot by Seeret
Robin, the bull bought by Miss Stanley of An-
thony to head her neh priced herd. The dam of
May Rose is by Secret Archer, sire of J. F. Stod-
der’s cows, that bred to Captain Archer produced
his show cattle. Another is Belle of Havana 4th,
by asonof Captain Archer, full brother to Sweet
Mistletoe, dam of Lespedeza Collynie, grand
champion at the Dnternational in 1919,
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The bull that was bought to head the herd is
Chanute Pride. lis sire, Royal Gloster, is by
np. Daydreams Pride, not only a show bull but
also a fine breeder. His dam is by Aberdeen,
practically a full brother to My. Hill’s Ingle Lad
and out of Sveamore Spiraea, an 1800 pound cow
on grass, and own sister to Prince of Collynie,
one of the great bulls of the breed. Syringia,
dai of Sycamore Spiraea, is one of Mr. Hanna’s
best productions.

Watkins Bros., Cherryvale—This firm began
breeding Shorthorus three years ago and results
observed while visiting the herd prove that their
foundation stock was wisely selected. The top
erosses in the pedigrees show an infusion of
blood rom sueh well known bulls as Silvermine,
Collynie, St. Valentine 12th, Seotland’s Charm,
Portune, Searchlight, imp. Prince Lovely, Sul.
tan Victor, Good Choice and Best of Goods. This
should furnish a most satisfactory foundation
for the practical man but this is only half the
herd.

The other half, doubtless the more nnportant,
is a white bull by Tine ae ioternational
prize winning son of Wit arshall, Inter-
national grand champion and ene of the best sons
of Whitehall Sultan. This young bull ss a big,
beely fellow by virtue of in

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was Lugle’s Secret by Ingle Lad. Ingle’s Secret
as a six-month-old cali weighed about 600 pounds
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and sueked a three-year-old heifer that weighed
more than 1600, while the cow and calf were on
pasture without grain. This heifer and her call
were ainost remarkable pair for their ages. The
heifer was Sycamore Seeret by Collynie, full of
the best blood known in Shorthorn history. Wat-
kins Bros. had the honor of winning the jumor
and grand championships on bulls at the South-
east Kansas Shorthorn Show at Coffeyville in
1919, with a ten-month-old cali of their breeding.
R. E. Webb, Wayside.—Mr. Webb engaged
with his father in breeding Shorthorns i 1905
and for the past cight years has been working on
his own account. One of his best cows is Cather-
ine Victoria by Rosewood 2d, a son of Rosewood
by inp. Lugleweod out of imp. Roscleaf by Seot-
tish Archer, Two good cows were purehased at
the Stodder dispersion and one of these, Silver
Creek Sylvia by Lord Thistle, is still on the farm
with several female descendants. Butterfly’s
Fortune by Alice’s Fortune is another of the
more desirable cows. ber sive is by Fortune, a
well known son of Collynic, used for several
years by I, L. Swinney. Mr. Webb has a bull
that should be highly satisfactory. His sire is
seeret Baron by Snowstorvin, son of Snowflake,
sive of the three times biternational erand eham-
pion, Ringmaster. His dam is by Collynie Choice,
a son of Collynie out of a daughter of Choice

Goods.
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Mr. Webb’s loeaticn near a section given to
eattle breeding is ia his favor and guarantees a
market for all the steek he can produce.

C. D. Bird, Cherryvale—M?1. Bird bought
three good bred heifers at the Coffeyville sale
in 1919 and raised three calves from them that
scason. Two were by Sir Hampton, a sire of
sylendid stock. Sir Hampton was hy Hampton
rmprayv out of a Prince Royal dam. The dams
were by Collynie Goods, Rosewood and Prince
Tinperial 2d, three excellent bulls. Victor Gloster,

the bull sold at Independence in 1919 with the
Holeomb herd, is the sive in use. One of the best
young bulls ever shown and sold at any Southeast
Kansas sale was consigned by Mr. Bird to the

1919 fall sale.

C. A. Chamberlin, Cherryvale—Mr. Chamber-
hin has seven females which he uses partially for
dairy purposes, belheving this necessary under
small farm conditions. That returns are satis-
factory is demonstrated by a visit to the farm.
‘Che cows are strong in the blood of Collynie,
Choice Goods and Alice’s Prince. Farther down
tiny earry the blood of Baron Victor, Godoy and
Searlet Knight. May. Chamberlin is using My.
Watkins’ bull. (See Watkins sketch.)

J. C. Foster, Cherryvale—Mr. Foster bought
eood milking Shorthorn cows of Peck & Son and
Mr. Peck assures me the cows were well chosen.
The object is to prodee a good sized Shorthorn
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cow that will raise profitable beef cattle and give
sufficient milk to fully pay her keep. Mr. Foster
Will find a broad demand for the produce of these
cattle as the small farmer must eventually have
this very class of stock.

W.C. Hall, Coffeyville —Dr. Hall, proprietor
of Hall Stock Farm, believes in breeding the
horns off and is using strongly bred Polled bulls.
Among the cows Ingle Princess, one of the best,
comes from H. M. Hill. Her sive, Sunblaze, was
hy Ingle Lad out of old Wistful, one of the out-

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standing cows of the breed.
Princess was from the Nevius herd. fnele Rose,
a double standard, is by Ingle Lad out of a
Polled cow by Ficld Marshall 164475.) There are
fifteen females in the herd and the breeding of
Shorthorns is to be continued. The double stan-
dard bull, Evergreen Sultan by the International
grand champion, True Sultan, 1s in service. The
product of this farm should be a valuable adjunct
to Montgomery county agriculture, as well as
being a source of much recreation to Dr. Hall.
H. L. Higday, Independence.—M1. Higday is
inaking a start with Shorthorus. Tle has a num-
her of good cows among which is Rosebud’s Lav-
ender by Rosebud’s Seeret, a son of Seeret Arch-
er, one of the best bulls in southeast Kansas. In
addition to Roscbud’s Seerct there was used a
bull, Diperial Duke by dortune, a well known
son of imp. Collynie out of a Lord Cowslip cow.
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Another dash of excellent blood comes in through
Captain by Collynie out of the well known cow,
Lilac. Twentieth Karl of Valley Grove by Lord
Mayor also contributes to the quality of the herd.
mix select females purchased from J. C. Rob-
ison have recently been added. Like all of Mx.
Rohison’s cattle, these cows have plenty of size,
combined with finish Alfalfa and a. silo
complete the story of My, Higday’s operations.

J. L. Knotts, Caney.—For about twenty years
Mr. Knotts has been connected with the Short-
horn industry and for the past ten vears he has
heen breediig ou his own account. His herd of
nine cows 1s desccnded from one cow that carried
in two top crosses the blood of Rosewood, son of
np. Inglewood and imp. Roseleaf by Scottish
Aveher and of np. Craven Knight. Mr. Knotts
also owns a splendid producing daughter of
Harding, a full brother to Mr. Hill’s Sarcasm.
He is using the bull, Halhwood Goods by Hall-
wood Mint, a son of Choice Goods Model and
Halhwood Violet by Headlight. The breeding
of this buil is elegant and he has proved his worth
asa sire by three years service in the herd of A.
Haim & Son.

A. G. Poweli, Libert oe —Mi. Powell has been
breeding Shorthorus for eleven years. He hasa
herd of about twenty females, nearly all de-
seended fron: a Cruickshank Orange Blos-

exes ae m eee ape roe Bris
som cow purchased from L. T. Frederick
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Nebraska. Ma. Powell has not given liis cattle
the attention necessary to secure the most profit-
able returns but he has decided to make a busi-
ness of the matter from now on and with a nice
and very popularly bred foundation and with
plenty of alfalfa lie will be able to put up a real
Shorthorn herd. The bull in use is a Hanna bred
son of Tlampton Spray with the great, smooth
middle characteristic of these cattle, a good head
and neck and good quarters. He is a typical
Shorthorn.

Alex Thomason, Havana.—Mr. Thomason is
a prince of good fellows with an excellent large
farm and a ged sized herd of practical, useful
Shorthorns. Lis cattle are kept in medium con-
dition, just right to do well for the purchaser if
given fair treatment. The herd has received an
infusion of Captain Archer blood through two
bulls, Jo oe Kaneht and Free Knight 2d. This
indicates quality, for Captain Archer was an own
brother to Swect Mistletoe, the dam of the 1919
International grand champion. Mr. Thomason
has been a contributor to the Southeast Kansas
Breeders sales and a heifer of his breeding was
hivst in a hotly contested class at the Southeast
Kansas show at Coffeyville in 1919. At the 1919
fall show at) independence Ma. Thomason
boueht a good heifer representing the Hanna
breeding with that of Jl. ©. Duncan and W. A.
Harris.
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MORRIS COUNTY

F. G, Houghton, Dunlap—Mzr. Houghton has
been breeding Shorthorns for eight vears. While
his herd has not been pushed for hest develop-
ment, vet like most breeders he realizes his
mistake and will correct it. He is. well
located, having both pasture and alfalfa land and
the twenty-five females now in the herd are of

the desirable breeding kind. They are practical-
Iv all descended from goed bulls of good ancestry
and out of wood herds. Among the sires appear-
ing are the Kellerman bred King Edward; Chief
Mist bred by 2 N. H. Gentry by the Choice of All
and out of Viok Mist 7th, dam of Hampton
pray; Gallant Kaight’s Star by Gallant Knight
out of a dam by Lord Mayor; Lord Barmpton by
F. M. GitYord’s weil known Lord Marr, a son of
Lord Mayor; Choiee Prince by Prince of Tebo

 

Lawn out of a daughter ef Alice’s Prince; Royal
Goods by Select Goods, dam by Laird of Lin-

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wooed and Victorious Kine by Victorious, dam
by Secret Barinpton. Their dams were from
bulls comme from stich herds as those of Tom-
sons, Gentry, Tebo Lawn, Joseph Dunean, Fred
Gifford, S. C. Hanna and Col. Harris’ Lin-
wood herd.

Eighth Josephine 141817 is one of the best
cows. She is by Lord eee. wy Lord Marv.
Pride 5th comes from Meall Bros. Her sire,
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Royal Goods, was by Select Goods, a son of the
champion, Choice Goods out of a cow by Alice’s
Prince, the 2000 son of imp. Prineess Alice.

A voan bull from John Regier heads the herd.

iv Kdelweiss is by Good News, a bull used for a
number of years by Mr. Regier with much sue-
cess. He was shown at three state fairs, winning
three firsts. His sive was New Goods by Choice
Goods out of a cow by imp. Collynie. The dam
of Sir Edelweiss, Edelweiss 4th, was by Nonpar-
ell Star that as a calf was in George Bothwell’s
eveat show herd and the dam of Edelweiss 4th
was by imp. Lord Banff, one of the best bulls of
his day. th . Houghton sueecessfully managed
the 1919 and 1920 Morris County Breeders Sale
held at Couneil Grove.

Robert P. Dent, Council Grove.—With an ex-
cellent location for a Shorthorn breeding estab-
lishment, Mar. Dent has decided that high priced
land and poor grade cattle do not balance the
account and that it is absolutely necessary to
produce the right kind of eattle. He bought

few cows just for a start and they are being
well cared for with satisfactory results. Butter-
fly, bred by D. A. Ewing of Great Bend, was
eho, a 2600 pound bull used by
Miss Stanley and now owned by Bennington

sived ae Shoiee BH

Bros. Lic is a son of New Goods out of a dam
by Captain Archer. Collynie Briseis by imp.
Collynie out of a dain by imp. Mariner, sire in
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Hi. M. Hill’s herd, is one of the best cows in the
lot. Clarice by Vietor Archer, the well known
bull owned by Dr. R. A. Stewart, Minnie 4th by
Happy Choice a son of Good Choice and Queen’s
Pride by the Tomson bred Cherry Knight by
Barmpton Knight are three good cows that bred
to a good bull should give the desired results.
dn the ownership of a bull, My. Dent is co-oper-
ating with his two sons, or rather he is furnish-
ing the bull for the three herds established by
the family. This is mentioned that other fathers
may be encouraged to do likewise. The bull isa
roan, medium in size, very evenly covered, thick
meow fleshed, a fine looker, and what is best
of all, a sire of first-rate calves.

R. E. Hailey, Wilsey—Both Mr. and Mrs.
Hailey have the natural qualifications that make
for suceess in the Shorthorn business. They
also have a location amid surroundings where
eattle do their very best, ap eee size, flesh
and vigorous constitution. Besides this, they
have ten females in the herd, fae judged from
any reasonable view point, are fit to be the an-
cestors of an excellent herd. Miss Rose 3d, a
twelve-year-old roan that looks like a six-year-
old, is from the famous Browndale farm, the
nursery of countless numbers of high-class and
prize winning Shorthorns. This cow would be
the kind to select in buying the foundation for
a breeding herd. Miss Rose 4th by Defender is
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a roan three-year-old daughter of Miss Rose 3d.
Defender is a son of Barmipton Knight, sire of
state fair, American Royal and International
champions and of many great breeding cows. THis
dam was by the Norton bred Sir Charming 4th.
Elmwood Bettie is by Bonnie Count, whose sive, °
Goodline, was by imp. Collynie out of a cow by
imp. Lord Cowslip. Her dam is by Leader, a
son of Silvery Kaneht by Gallant Kaneht.

Mr. Hailey’s first purchase of a bull was not
in keeping with his requirements. He early re-
eognized what all breeders mist learn, sooner or
later, that a bull can not be too good. The pres-
ent herd bull, Captain 545855, not only has a
strong line of ancestry but he also holds his ere-
dentials of exceHent service in the reeord of havy-
ing been the sive of a considerable part of a ear
load of Kansas City market topping twelve-
month-old baby beeves. He earnes through his
sive a blending of the best line of Tomson Bros.’
breeding and on his daim’s side, through her sire,
Hampton Crown, the Merry Hampton blood.
He is a smoothly finished fellow of good size,
close to the ground, and is a good feeder,

Clyde E. Dent, Council Grove—Mr. Dent is
avoiding the mistake made by many voung men,
In beginning rieht mistead of having either serubs
or evades. Ta lookine over bis herd it must be
admitted that he has shown judement in seleet-
ing his origimal purehascs. Two years ago he
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bought five females and from these he expects to
develop his Shorthorn herd. One of his cows is
by Rosewood Prince, a son of Rosewood out of
adam by imp. Collynie. Rosewood was by imp.
Inglewood, Mr. Hanna’s show bull, for years
‘the record priced bull of the American Royal
sales, out of imp. Roseleaf by Mr. Duthie’s great
bull, Scottish Archer. Collynie Briseis 2d, an-
other good cow, is by Reflection, a Collynie bull
out of a dam by imp. Mariner. Her dam is also
by Collynie. Louise, a heifer that has been a
local prize winner, 1s by Bettie’s Albion, out of
a dam by Pride of Avondale. Oak Pearl 2d is
by Roan Cowshp, a son of imp. Lord Cowslip out
of a dam by Red Oak by Collynie out of one of
Mr. Hanna’s Sempstress of Oakland cows. She
was bred by J. E. Thompson of Fredonia. A
daughter of Collvnie Briseis 2d completes the
list. It will be noted that four of these cows
are strong in Collynie blecd which is as strong a
foundation for a breeding berd as could be
found, and the fifth carrics the Avondale cross.
The bull used is Prairie King. (See Waldo Dent
sketch. )

M. A. Metzger, Council Grove.—Mr. Metzger
bought five cows of C. H. Williams & Son anda
bull of Meall Bros., which insures a good foun-
dation. In looking over the pedigrees of the
cows L find in the top crosses some noted bulls.
Royal Gloster, a show and excellent breeding
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bull owned by ©. M. Garver; Double Champion,
son of Choice Goods and Russella the dam of
Ruberta; imp. Thistletop (see T. K. Tomson
sketeh, Part J); inp, Prince Odere and amp.
Burgomaster. Cows of this blood should prove
satisfactory breeders. Phe herd bull is by Snow-
Make’s Stamp by Snow!llake, sire of Ringmaster,
three times International grand champion. With
proper care this should develop into a profitable
herd.

Waldo E. Dent, Council Grove.—Thougeh Mr.
Dent is one of the youngest breeders in his eoun-
ty he has an excellent start for a beginner. Lassie
is by Bettie’s Albion 399451, and her dam is
Brawith Missie by Pride of Avondale, son of
Avondale and imp. Rosewood 86th, second dam
Brawith Lass by New Year’s Gilt, 198621. Lady
Lucerne comes from the H.C. Stephenson herd
in Chase county. (See W. J. Sayre and H. M.
Schoepflin sketches.) Tler sire, Cherry Knight,
was by Barmpton Knight, one of the best bulls
ever owned in Kansas and sire of two noted
champions at the American Royal and Interna-
tional. ILer daa was by Happy Choice by Bel-
lows Bros.”? Good Choice, son of the champion,
Choice Goods and sire of the champion, Diamond
(Goods. Kentueky Belle 2d is also a Stephenson
product and is by Happy Choice out of a dam
hy Rosemary Vietor Tth, a bull of George
Bothwell’s breeding. Mar Bothwell will be
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remembered as owning the leading western show
herd of his day.

Mr. Dent has a snap in his bull. It is under-
stood that he is co-operating with his father
and brother in the ownership, but the fact is that
the father bought the bull and the sons are using
him. The elder Mr. Dent selected a very good
bull, for Prairie King by Sir Edelweiss (see
Regier sketch) is out of a daughter of Wooddale
Chieftain, one of the best bulls by The Choice
of All ever sent out by My. Gentry.

H. O. Mott, White City —Mr. Mott’s connec-
tion with Shorthorns dates back to 1905, the
present herd consisting of twenty females. Pur-
chases of foundation stock were made from Rich-
ard Roenigk, Thos. B. Reid, of Franklin county
and others. These cows were of good descent,
carrying much ef the blood of two noted Kansas
herds, those of C. W. Merriam and C. F. Wolf
& Son. The bulls used were Prairie King 442970
and Crimson Light 656773. The latter was bred
by J. H. Taylor & Sons and is now in use. His
sire 1s the well known Marengo Pearl, a bull that
did great service in C. W. Taylor’s herd. Mr.
Mott is located in a cattle country where all con-
ditions are favorable to lve stock production.

L. W. Reeves, Parkerville-—The Reeves farm
seems ideally located for the production of
Shorthorns since it furnishes everything that
should go to develop the young stock well and
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economically. Alfalfa and plenty of prairie pas-
fare, shade and good water are found here. There
are thirty females in the herd, whieh was estab-
lished in 1911. Phe cows range in size from imed-
lun to large and it is Mr. Reeves’ intention to
eive the ealves liberal feed and care whieh will
insure a good growth. Among Kansas herds that
have contributed to the upbuilding of this one
ave those of John MeCoy and Thomas, Jameison

& Mitchell.

NEMAHA COUNTY

Milton Poland & Son, Sabetha.—I found thisa
uniform herd in splendid condition with few, if
any, aminals that needed culling out. The cows
have fine heads and necks, are of good size and
earry chough flesh to give them a very pleasing
appearance. A lot of nicely grown, fleshy calves
show that the cows are desirable as breeders and
miles. Kverything indicates net — only
Judgment ino mating but also capable eeneral
nanagement.

Royal Nonpareil by Royal Leader out of Non-
pareil 37th, a daughter of imp. Nonpareil 35th,
is the sire of a number of the cows. Snowllake
Baron by Snowflake; Trooper, by Barnmpton
Kiight; Brigham Young by Pride of Collynic
and Barmpton Kiight appear frequently in the
top crosses. Hight execllent heifers are by Oak-
dale King by asonof Avondale. On their dam’s
On

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side they come from a worthy line of sires. A
number of these heifers are of outstanding qual-
ity and would look well anywhere.

King Rex, an unusually low down, level bull
is in service. He is smooth, well fleshed and a
good looker as well as a satisfactory breeder
which is evidenced in his calves. His sire is the
Westrope bred Le Boyne Rex and his dam is by
Kuight of Greeley bred by C. A. Saunders, thus
uniting stock from two of Lowa’s best herds.  /
new bull will be needed shortly and it is Mr.
Poland’s intention to eet one of the best he ean
obtain.

J.C. Aeschliman & Son, Sabetha.—One of the
guarantees that could be given for the sue-
cess of this herd is the great enthusiasm of the
son, about twelve years of age and Mr. Aeschli-
man, by the way, is not lacking in this respect,
either. Their foundation was wisely laid. The
first purchase was the top cow in the dispersion
of the excelent D. EH. Reber herd. She cost $500,
a big price at that time and equal to several times
that amount now. She is by True Goods, one of
the best known sons of Fair Goods, son of Choice
Goods and Ruberta. The heifers out of this cow
are by a son of Scotchman, sire of Good Seoteh-
man. They carry the blood of C. C. Norton’s
Sir Charming 10th and his well known Sweet
Charity cows.

There is nothing in sight that should prevent
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this firm from building up a ehoice Shorthorn
herd and if future additions are made with the
same judgement shown so far, they will succeed.
The Aeschlimans have access to several good
bulls and ave using one of the best in Nemaha
county.

H. Heimann & Son, Seneca.—Mr. Heimann
has made up his mind that there is no reason why
his son should produce grade cattle just be-
cause he himself did so he has bought some good
Shorthorns and the voung man is in charge. He
is enthusiastic and I think will be a real success.
The cows selected for a start are of the medium
size, smooth kind. Dorothy, a three-year-old
red, comes from L. V. Sanford. Her sire is Or-
ange Premier, a son of the well known Orange
Model out of a cow by Lavender Viceroy by Lav-
ender Viscount. A number of the younger fe-
males come from Dr. Mark’s herd in Jeffer-
son county and are by Double Diamond, a nice,
smooth bull with a double cross of the champion,
Doamond Goods, and a crop of calves to his ere-
dit speaks well for him.

Trooper’s Model is the bull used. He is by
Trooper, the Barmpton Knight bull used so sue-
cessfully by Mr. Sanford and his dam is by Mat-
imecr bred by John MeCoy. In addition to this
stock on hand, Mr. Heimann is contemplating
the purchase of some strictly high-class cows
bred along most popular lines and a first-class
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bill The object is to make the herd one of the
best in this seetion of the country and with the
unusual facilities for carrying out these plans
there is little doubt as to the ultnnate success of
the project.

james Jackson, Sabetha.—I found here two
outstanding heifers due to calve soon and three
eood yearlings of pleasing form. Favorable
working conditions and enthusiasm, with sound
cattle sense on the part of both Mr. and Mrs.
Jaekson, mean a first-class herd on the farm.
They have one of the most pleasing prospects I
have found in a herd established less than a year
ago. The three yearlings mentioned ave by Roan
Duke 540756, said to have been an excellent bull.
Their dams are by a son of Barmpton Knight
that was out of a cow by imp. Mutineer. A
big, smooth two-year-old is Lavon by Oakdale
King, son of Forest Dale by Avondale. Her dam
is by the J. G. Robbins bred bull, Golden Duteh-
man. Marcella, another two-year-old by Oak-
dale King, must be classed among the best of her
ave E have seen recently. She has the form and
finish of a show cow and is an exceptional breed-
ing proposition. My. Jackson is to be congratu-
lated on making such a success of his initial pur-

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The bull used in this herd is a big one, but he is
straight and smooth. He comes from John Me-
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one of Ma. MeCoy’s best cows, whieh: is eqQulVva-
lent tosaying that lis dani is one of the best cows
In Kansay. There is little chance of any man’s
Inaking a mistake im buying sueh a bull.

Sam’l C. Jackson, Sabetha.—This is another
ease of Increasing land prices bringing about the
necessity for better cattle and Mr, Jackson is
supplanting the gerade with the pure bred. He
has five cows of acceptable breeding and they are
satisfactory producers. While lacking somewhat
in unifornuty, mating with a good bull will cor-
rect this irregularity. Among the sives of these
cows Is Wodan, a son of Nonpareil Star and one
of the best bulls that went out from John Re-
erer’s herd. Another is by Rock Springs Pride,
the execHent MeCoy bred son of Pride of Col-
Ivnic. Royal Hero by Seeret Prince 206457, a
son of imp. Strawberry, is the sive of another.
Prince of Tebo Lawn and Choice Goods enter
largely into the pedigrees of these cows. Mr.
Jackson is a good feeder. LHe has access to sev-
eval bulls) in his) community, whieh will
enable him to soon own a herd of the desired
quality, backed by some of the choicest ancestry
found in western Shorthorns. This is what eon
stitutes veal worth in all pure bred cattle.

L. V. Sanford, Sabetha.*—Mvr. Sanford has a
herd of twenty-five Females, all of which were
bred on the farm. hey range i size from

Telephone aud station, Onerds.
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medium to large and, generally speaking, are
good. Some of the original stock, possibly all,
enine froin the James Gress herd and carried an
infusion of the blood Gt Col. Harris’? imp. Royal
Pirate.

As is the case where the cattle are all home
bred, the quality of the bulls used indicates what
is in the herd. The first bull was Mutineer 274-
110. He was bred by John MeCov, which fact is
in itself a reconunendation, His sive was Gladys’
Chief by imp. Spartan Eero and out of a cow
that was own sister to Lavender Viscount, Inter-
national grand champion. To follow Mutineer,
another good herd was patronized. Trooper came
from Tomson Bros. and was by Barmpton
Jsnight, sire of state fair and International prize
winners and of many big, beefy Shorthorus.
Trooper’s dam was by Curator, a son of imp.
Abeyne and imp. Lady Myra, both from the
Cruickshank herd. Grange Prenier is now in
use. He was bred by W. A. Betteridge and came
to Mr. Sanford through Bellows Bros. His sire
is Orange Model, a bull that figures much in
Shorthorn pedigrees, and his dam is by Lavender
Viceroy, one of the best known sons of Lavendei
Viscount. Mar. Sanford has bred and sold the
foundation ee for numerous herds in his part
of the state.

C. H. Wempe, Seneca.— M1. Wenipe has been
handling pure bred stock for vears. His herd
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consists of twenty-five females bred along mice
lines. Amone the cows are daughters and
eranddaughters of Diamond Hinblem, the bull
that made a record as a sive and show bull for
TJ. Dawe, Rock Springs Pride by Pride of Col-
Iynie and Good Scotchman. A very attractive
roan bull was bought in 1919 from G. PF. Hart
and he was one of the best from that good herd.
T noticed a valuable feature about this young
bull. Though only a yearling and running with
the herd on vather short pasture where he had
been all summer, he was in a condition indi-
cating rather extra grazing quality. He is of
the most desirable breeding.

NEOSHO COUNTY

A. Austin, Galesburg.—Aimong Myr. Austin’s
best cows 1s New Goods, a daughter of Good
News, the well known prize winner and breeding
bull owned by John Regicr for several years. Vio-
let’s Pride, the white bull that sold at Coffeyville
in 1919 as a 1550 pound yearling is im service.
He comes from O. O. Massa and is by that un-
usual sire of good stock, Kansas Prince. A heifer
ealf exhibited by Ma. Austin at Independence im
1919 won fist in class over strong competition.

NESS COUNTY

W.F. Baer, Ransom—Mr. baer is located ina
section not mueh given to Shorthorn breeding
A HISTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS 521
and his herd will be an advertisement for the
breed. The cows sired by good bulls are numer-
ous. Captain Archer, an outstanding sire, and
own brother to Sweet Mistletoe, dam of the 1919
International grand champion; Falsetto, sire of
the excellent cows sold by Mrs. Fraser; Barmp-
ton Knight, sire of prize winners by the seore, in-
cluding New Year’s Delight, American Royal
grand champion; Maxwalton Rosedale, own
brother to Whitehall Rosedale, grand champion
all over the West and sire of Violet’s Dale, noted
western champion bull, are the sires of some of
the cows In the herd. Marigold, a five-year-old
roan, Is a recent addition. She is by Merry Goods,
the son of Good Choice.

With this foundation and with proper care
and feed, resilting in good development, it re-
mains ouly to observe the bulls in service to get
a fair idea of what to expect here. Augustus isa
roan son of Crusader by Barmpton Knight, a
bull that was retained in the Tomson herd and
liberally used by them. His dam is Augusta 105th
by Waverly. The other herd bullis Village Presi-
dent 565266 bred by J. F. Prather. He is by
Superior Knight 408979 with several genera-
tions of the best Prather breeding back of his
dam. Mr. Bacr’s cattle were successfully exhib-
ited at the Kansas State Fair in 1920.

Win. Gulick & Son, Ness City.—This is one of
the older and larger herds of western Kansas,
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having been established in 1900 and now mumber-
ing more than 100 females. A considerable part
of the herd is by the Hanna bred Royal Vietor
by Prince Royal, the well known som of dnp.
Collynie and imap. Princess Royal 62d. Several
eood bulls have been used, one among the ecarher
ones having been Red Monk 227225. Another
was Ravenswood tlero by a son of Godoy, the
favorably known son of inp. Spartan Pero and
imp. Golden Thistle. Ravenswood Hero's dam
was by Baron Lavender 3d, sire of Lavender Vis-
count and out of a daughter of imp. Sunbeam,

One of the bulls now in service is Baro Rams-
den 509817. The dam of Baron Ramsden is Lady
Ramsden 4th by Lavender Goods, a son of Bel-
lows Bros.’ Good Choice. The Gulicks bought at
the Salter-Robison 1920 sale imp. Roan Marshal,
vol. 66 H.H.B. He is a yearling of more than
usual scale with plenty of spread and great
depth of body. He was bred by Alex Sutherland
and is by the Durno bred Golden Marshall, a
son of Collymie Golden Dream. Tlis dam is by
Cluny Prince Victor of Lady Catheart’s breed-
ine. Mr. Gulick’s aim is the production of smooth
eattle of medium size and of the best type to util-
ize farm feeds and imp. Roan Marshall should
sire the desired class of stock,

This herd is not kept ina country noted for
Hs great ntunber of Shorthorns, vet the patron-
age shows an inereasing demand for these cattle.
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NORTON COUNTY

R. W. Dole, Almena.—Although this herd
dates only froin 1917, Ma. Dole was able to hold
a very suceesstul sale in 1919 and another in
1920. Several choice additions have recently
been made and there ave now thirty-five females
inthe herd. Some of these cows are of the most
poplar breeding, while all are strong in good
Seoteh blood. Roan King, a grandson of Ru-
berta’s Goods and inp. Rose of Tyne, was one of
the sires used wath success. Another was Clipper
Goods, a splendidly bred white, out of a daughter
of Snowflake, the sire of Ringmaster. At pres-
mt the leading herd bull is Roan Sultan 668451.
This bull comes from ancestry of much prestige
and should give excellent service in the herd.

 

OSAGEH COUNTY

A. F. Kitchin, Burlingame—Mr. Kitchin
comes frou an old Keautucky Shorthorn family,
both his father and his grandfather having been
breeders of the reds, whites and roans. He has
built up a herd of thirty females and has all the
facilities needed for making cattle growing a sue-
cess. A few vears ago he made a very fortunate
investinent in buying the cow, Miss Acorn. She
wae sived by the Prather bred bull, Highlander
and her dam was Wealthy Acorn 5th, one of the
best cows in Mr. Gentry’s herd and dam of
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Wooddale Chieftain, used so profitably in the
herd of D. A. Ballantyne & Sons. Miss Acorn,
still very rugeed, is a splendid individual. One
of her daughters is a five-year-old roan of med-
hun size and much quality and she has three
choice heifers to her credit besides having pro-
duced a bull calf that sold for #300.

J am mentioning these cattle especially, be-
cause Mr. Kitchin intends to select his breeding
stock from the descendants of these five females.
The other cows in the herd are good, in fact not a
poor or unworthy aninal was seen among them.
The veneral appearance of all the cattle imdi-
cates efficient management and if all breeders
wold give their herds the same intelligent care
that Ma. Kitchen is giving, and use high-class
balls as he has been using, lectures on care and
herd bulls would be unnecessary.

Tt was here that T found a seven-year-old bull
of remarkable becfiness, a white son of Prince
Valentine 4th, the successful show and breeding
bull used by Tomsons. [do not reeall having
seen anywhere, in recent years, a much better
specimen of a beef animal Ile is almost abnor-
nally short-legeed with a wonderfully deep,
thick body, covered with a wealth of smooth
flesh. Though running out in the pasture with
a few cows and getting no grain, he might prove
a troublesome opponent even ina pretty strong
show. This bull was purchased of C. 8. Nevius,
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his breeder. His dam is the Bellows bred Keep-
sake 2d by Good Choice, second dam by Victor-
allan, third dam by Armour Bearer. Quite a
number of excellent heifers by him are being re-
tained.

The other herd bull is North Americus pur-
chased at the Gillespie dispersion at Muskogee.
Aside from his size and quality his claim to dis-
tinction rests on the fact that he comes from the
same cow, or from a cow closely related to the
dam of Americus, the bull that sold for $88000 in
South America, which was the highest price paid
for any bull of any breed up to that time. North
Americus is a smooth, rather large fellow and
should give proper account of himself on this
farm. There is material here for a high-class
herd and Mr. WKitehin is still active and able to
eo ahead and get the results.

Barrett & Land, Overbrook.—This herd,
started in 1910, usually numbers about 100 head
and it is one of the best known establishments in
east central Kansas. Seoteh topped cows of a
good class are kept and given good farm care, the
young stock being well grown. Several public
sales have been held and liberally patronized.
Cattle have been sent to the Eastern Kansas sale
at Ottawa and to the Kansas National sale at
Wichita.

The herd has had the service of a number of
excellent bulls. Prince Knight was by Crusader,
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one of the best sons of Barmpton Knight and
his dam was Glenwood Pavonia, a daughter of
imp. Glendale Pavonia. Heetor, a bull used until
1919, was by Prince Valentine 4th. His dam was
by Barmpton Knight out of Tarmony 6th by
inp. Thistletop. Hector had three crosses of the
best of Kansas bulls.

Sultau’s Seal, one of the present herd bulls,
isa roan by Beaver Creek Sultan, the grandson
of Whitehall Sultan that for Tomisons sired some
of the highest priced Shorthorus sold in this ter-
vitory. His dam came from H.C. Duncan and
was by his excellent Golden Lavender, The other
bull is Silver Dale, a big white of outstanding
quality. Both in ancestry and individuality he
has everything which should make a desirable
sive. FHeis by Master of the Dales by Avondale
and Tis dam is the 1800 pound Princess Colum-
Ina, one of the greatest breeding cows in the
West.

Charles Hothan & Son, Scranton.—Fifteen
eows are kept here under ordinary farm
conditions and good ealves ave being raised from
them. Phe herd includes some splendidly bred
ones. Amie Laurie, a red three-year-old, comes
From Forrest Nave, Lexineton, Missouri. Her
sire is Nonpareil Vietor by Vietor Orange, one
of the best of Kansas bulls, prominent in the
herd of Tfenry Stunkel. Per dam is also by
Vietor Orange and her grandam came from the
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Win. Cunmnings herd, a leading herd of Illinois.

Five of the cows on the farm are by Ingle
Prince, a bull of exceptional ancestry, his sire
having been Prince of Collynie by imp. Collynie
and lis dam Ingle Maid, the dam of Mx. Hill’s
Ingle Lad. It is doubtful if many bulls in Kan-
sas or anywhere clse are so well descended. He
is very close to My. Cruickshank’s best cattle and
his ancestry for generations were outstanding
individuals. The dams of these cows were by
Joe Pavonia, a Nevius bred son of Prince Pa-
vonia, a bull famous asa sire in both Kansas and
Oklahoma. A white bull from Tomson Bros. is
beme used on these red cows. He is by Beaver
Creek Sultan and his dam is by Dale’s Cumber-
land, a bull carrying the blood of International
ervand champions and of many choice Short-
horns. He combines in the two top crosses,
Whitehall Sultan, Avondale and Cumberland’s
Last, the most famous bulls of this period.

V. A. Jasperson, Scranton.—Mr. Jasperson is
the pleasant and efficient secretary of the Osage
County Breeders Association. He has been
breeding for three vears and has a herd of twenty
females, representative of such excellent bulls
as inp. Collynie, sive and grandsire of some of
America’s greatest Shorthorns; Choice Goods,
for three years acknowledged champion of
America; Ingle Lad, a great sire of breeding
cows; Senator Wornall’s imp. Conqueror;
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Prince Pavomla, one of the best bulls ever owned
by CO. S. Nevius; Archer and Gallant Knight,
both ereat sires in the Tomson herd and old
Lord Mayor, the bull that made T. P. Babst
known as a breeder. To this lst could be added
many others. From such a herd of cows it is
possible to produce almost any results desired.

The herd bull purchased in 1919 from Tomson
Bros. is Seeret Sentry by Beaver Creek Sultan.
His dam is by White Goods, one of the outstand-
Ing sons of Choice Goods, second dam by Lavy-
ender Viscount, famous Ravenswood sire and
International grand champion. Since the bull
is the big half of the herd it is important to note
that but few herd headers carry such a wealth
of ancestry as does Secret Sentry.

Mr. Jasperson, ike many other young men
who sometimes see things more quickly than do
older ones, knows that the day of profit in serubs
has passed.

H. Olson & Sons, Scranton.—You ean not help
liking Mr. Olson and having confidence in him
for every bit of his six foot frame makes you
feel that way. He is a comparatively new breeder
who is going to succeed because he has decided to
do so. There are about twenty females of breed-
ing age in the herd and all are of a useful type
with some especially good ones among them. The
cattle come from local herds of excellent quality
along with the breeding common to the majority
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of Osage county Shorthorns. The Olson cattle
have received an infusion of blood through
Hampton Spray and Prince Royal two outstand-
ing ton and a quarter bulls that represent not
only the best, but also some of the most popular
blood lines of the last quarter century. These
bulls were both well known in 8. C. Hanna’s
herd where they left much good stock.

The herd bull in use, bred by W. T. Pruitt &
Son of Missouri is a large roan and carries the
appearance of a veal breeding bull. The calves
by him are promising. Elis sire, Sultan Lad, was
by the noted bull Glenbrook Sultan, one of the
greatest sires of prize winners in America and
considered by many as second only to Avondale
among the sons of Whitehall Sultan. His dam
is by Victor Robin, a Spicy Robin bull, and his
second dain is by New Goods, the Choice Goods
bull that headed Harriman Bros.’ herd at their
dispersion sale,

H. M. Schoepflin, Quenemo.—This herd,
founded two years ago, is a good one. A nice lot
of heifers bought carly in 1919 are from the H.
C(. Stephenson herd. They have plenty of size,
are smooth from end to end and are very fem-
nine and attractive. Their sire is Nonpareil
Knight, a bull bred by Tomson Bros. and sired
by Gallant Kiight’s Heir. Nonpareil Knight’s
dam was bred by N. A. Lind and was by his well
known Fanev’s Pride. These heifers are out of
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cows by Tanmiptom’s Crown, a son of Tampton’s
Best, the outstanding son of imp. Merry THamp-
ton, considered by many breeders the best Scotch
bull ever imported. Some females in the herd
are by Cherry Kineght, a son of Barimpton
Knieht, the bull that did such excellent service
lov Tomsons, out of a granddaughter of the
famous bull, Village Tero. This is the same line
breeding as that of Young Abbotsburn, the
ereatest show bull ever exhibited in America.
Hrom this it may be seen that the Schoepflin fe-
males come by their size and quality honestly.
Mr. Schoeptlin, in partnership with a neighbor,
C. EK. MeFerven, owns the Tomson bred Victor
Sultan. There isa bright prospect for this herd
for it was founded on correct principles and it
will receive all necessary attention.

Mr. Schoepflin is one of the publie spirited
brecders of his county and is dog his full share
in pushing Shorthorn mterests.

Thomas Gray, Lyndon.—This is a herd of
twenty-five females of more than average merit.
They have been produced through the use of
bulls representing such sires as Prince Valentine
4th, a show bull for Mr. Nevius and a noted
breeding bull in the Pomson herd where he sired
ntunerous great producimg cows; Lavender King
3d; tmp. King of Aberdeen, sire of J.T. Pott’s
show cattle; Prime Minister by imp. Prince of
Perth; Roval Wanderer and Scotlind’s Charm,
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both well known in the C. F. Wolf & Son herd
and Norfolk, famous sire for B. O. Cowan and
grandsive of New Year’s Delight, American
Royal grand champion. The bull recently in
service came from C. 8, Nevius and the one now
in use was bred by E. S. Myers, both represent-
ing the best of the herds from which they came.
Mr. Gray keeps his cattle in thrifty condition
through common sense methods, such as any
careful farmer can practice.

C. E. McFerren, Quenemo.—Mr. McFerren
made a start in 1919 with four heifers. Among:
them is a two-year-old that is a rarely good
individual and her calf iidicates that she will be
a valuable breeding cow. These heifers descend
from a line of bulls strong in best Seoteh blood
and they reflect credit on their breeder and their
owner. Mr. MceFerren has a half interest with
Mr. Schoepflin in the splendid bull, Victor Sul-
tan, recently purchased from Tomson Bros., an
unusually attractive voung fellow of the right
type. He is by Beaver Creek Sultan and his
dam is one of the desirable cows in the Tomson
herd. Coupled with the ehoicely bred females
we nay reasonably look for unusual results. Mr.
MecFerren’s heifers came from the H. C. Ste-
phenson ney in Chase county and are of the
same lot as those purchased by My. Schoepflin
and My. Sayre. How much better for the begim-
ner to buy the right kind as Mr. McFerren did
de
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(han to save a few dollars and take inferior stock.

W. T. Dickson & Son, Carbondale.*—This
herd was founded twenty years ago. The Jutls
that have been used im that time are a first-rate
recommendation of quality in the herd. Silver
Archer was by Archer’s Victor, a Tomson bred
son of Archer out of a Gallant Knight cow. His
dam was by Lord Mayor. Good Conqueror was
by The Conqueror, son of Choice Goods and imp.
Clara 58th. The present herd bull comes from

FF. Kellerman and topped the Linn counts
sale in 1919. THe is by Gloster’s Best 667327 and
his dam by Prince Valentine 4th is one of the
best cows In the state. Tis second daim is by
Lord Mayor.

M. C. Pollard, Carbondale—This is a sinall
herd of ten good females established im 1917.
Dale Ruby, one of the cows is by Ury Dale, the
elegantly bred son of Avondale so well remem-
bered in north central Kansas. Cedar Pride
comes From, Cowham Stock sia and is by
Mary Lad by Ingle Lad, one of the best sons
of amp. Collynie and sire of numerous high-class
producing cows, including the grandam of Lady
Supreme and the dam. of Matchless Colly nie,
erand champion at the Denver show in 1919, Mr.

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Pollard is usine Mair Goods 7 79, a sonol Ka
Champion, an excellent Fair Acres Sultan hall

that is becoming very popular in north central

Tolephone and station, Overbrook,
is

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oo

dvausas. Ma. Peilard is a near neighbor of
J. G. Tomson and is oie of numerous breeders
in bis vicinity.

V. O. Simpson, Scranton.—Mr. Simpson’s fe-
inale purchases came from the Babst herd and

ire proving very useful. They were sired by
Dont d,a Tomson bred son of St. Clair, and rep-
resent the same breeding that produced New
Veur’s Delight and Daisy Queen, two noted
champions at America’s biggest shows. (Sec
Porusen sketch.) The herd bull is typical of the
choice breeding from the well known C. E. Leo-
nard herd. The calves produced will carry in
the two top crosses the blood of Barmpton
Knight, one of the best bulls ever owned in
fvansas and that of Rosedale’s Choice, the son of
Choice Goods and the famous cow, Rosedale
Violet 9th, dani of four calves sold for $6000 in
the time of low prices.

C. L. Troudner, Carbondale.—Ainong the good
thines in this weely bred herd are a lot ct heifers
by no s Cumberland and others strong in the
hlood of Barmpton Kiight through one of bis
best sons. Both these bulls are well known as
typieal cf the best in Shorthorus and the heifers

may

can not but prove valuabic. The herd bull comes
from Tomson Bros. and represents then breed-
ing for several generations. He is by Beaver
Crveck Sultan, the massive graudson of White-
hall Sultan that did service in the Tomson herd
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for several vears. His dam is by Gallant Knight’s
Heir by Gallant Kiight and his second dam is
by Barmpton Kineght. Bulls bred as this one
ean hardly help being first-class sires.

C. G. Williams, Lyndon.—Mr. Willams made
his start in February 1919 in the purchase of
five females from the Stephenson herd in Chase
county. These eattle are not only individuals
of approved type for profitable farm cattle
but their ancestry which is a blending of
Seoteh and American blood has given good 1e-
suits as it almost always does. The bull in use
came from barrett & Land and is a erandson of
Prince Valentine 4th with Pirinegle’s Sir Knight
aud the Potts bred Lavender King 3d strongly
represented on his dain’s side. These three bulls
did service in three excellent Kansas herds.
Prince Valentine 4th was owned by Tomsons,
Sir Kineght by Andrew Prinele and Lavender
King 3d by D. K. Kellerinan & Son.

A. A. Adams, Osage City.—Mr. Adams has a
pleasant location near town where he can grow
alfalfa, watch the Shorthorus and eujey life. A
year ago he bought eight females from H. H.
Churchill. They ave the practical kind and show
milking quality, the kind that when properly
inated always give satisfactory results. A num-
her of them are by the excellent Saunders bred
Marquis Cumberland by Cumberland’s Best, a
bull of outstanding character and ancestry. Cows
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by this bull can hardiy help becoming valuable
breeders and all that is required to make them
profitable is to given them care and see that they
are properly inated.

Ross A. Coffman & Son, Overbrook.—Coff-
man & Son bought a few Shorthorns in 1919 and
will tall into Shorthorn Hine which is quite casy
11 Osage county. The only mature cow in the
herd has plenty of size, something they intend
not to negleet. With abundant alfalfa and Dhie
grass they have the best of facilities for raising
eattle. So far no bull has been secured but
good one will be bought soon,

OSBORNE COUNTY
L. M. Nofisinger, Osborne.—Those who saw
the exhibit ma¢ te * Mr. Noffsinger at the Royal
1 1919 will not be surprised to hear that he has
an excellent herd. oth his herd balls were well
in the money which ts much to the credit of any

a

breeder, especially when bis entries are not high-
ly fitted. The females which he exhibited were
the ki

anywhere and they were of the true money mak-
ing type. Ttis not hkely that a juan of Mr. Noff-

Ind that were good cnoweh to attract notice

stnger’s energy will stop at anytuing short of the
best,

Whe vean, Seottish Duchess, is by Cuinberland
Dictator, a son of the well kuown Burwood Royal

out of a cow by Cumberland’s Fast, the most
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noted bull of the Cumberkind family. Closter
Cioods is a six-vear-old roan by Ruberta’s Goods,
himself a hieh-elass show bull and the sire of
inany prize winners. Ruberta’s Goods was by
the noted sire, Golden Goods, and out of the unde-
Feated cow, Ruberta. Roan Martha is by Mon-
araque Cumberland, a combination of Whitehall
Sultan and Cumberland blood, the two families
of Shorthorns that are now holding publie pres-
fige and Jargely controlling show ring awards.
Avondale’s Miss, a red, is by Avondale’s Choice,
son of Avondale, greatest bull of his day out of
Burwood Lady, a daughter of tp. Gwendoline,
Nonpareil 55th comes from Canada from the W.
©. Kdwards herd, a birthplace of eood Short-
horns. She is by Royat Butterfly, a sire of
note,

Raney Lord, one of the bulls used carly came
to Pomson Bros. through their notable purchase
of cows from R.O. Miller. Ile was by Lord Lan-
caster, a sou of the Duthie bred imp. Lord Mis-
tletoe and np. Lancaster Pet. Prince Luster, a
son of Prince Pavonia, was also used and re-
Meeted credit on his sire, one of the best bulls of
his tine and a som of imp. Glendale Pavonta.
Will be admitted that bulls from sueh ancestry
as those mentioned when bred to good cows ane
the produce ts well eared for would build Uy) aa
Mirst-class herd.

In the purchase of the bulls now ia use Me.
non
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Noffsinger has shown that ouly the best will sat-
isfv him. Pleasant Dale Sultan is an American
Roval winner of 1919 without fitting. His sire is
Lavender Lord by Avondale. His dam is Pleas-
aut Jealousy by imp. Shenstone Albino, sire of
the great prize winner and breeding bull, Pride
of Albton. His second dain is Maxwalton Jeal-
ousy by Avondale and his third dam is Sultan’s
Jealousy by Whitehall Sultan and out of imp.
Jeanie by Count Arthur. Lf a person were writ-
Ing a pedigree with a view to combine the best
blood lanes of the dav he night write a little
different combimation though he could hardly
improve this, The bull is large and he is a first-
vate sire. The other and younger bull is Fair
Aceves Choice by Fair Acres Sultan, one of the
very best sons of Whitehall Sultan and sire of
many of the highest priced American Shorthorns
of the last i w vears. The dam of Fair Acres
Choice, Gloster Goods, (see above) is also in the
herd. Chie ae hiineing in, as it does,
sO Iuany anlwals of extraordinary merit, can
hardly fail to produce good results through the
use of this big, stretchy three-vear-old bull.
Wales & Youn

sole very cred jitalile x show and breeding
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i.

Osborne.—These men have

or

  
 

stock in

they herd. The cows come through an excep-
tional Hue of ancestry. Bariypton inmieht, that

eveat sive hot only of show stock but also of the

best class of utility Shorthorms, has several
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daughters on the farm, one of whieh is out of a
cow by Lord Mayor, second dant by Gallant
Kinieht, a sive of more western prize winners
the shows than any other bull of his day. Uber
damishby tmp. Thistletop. Maxwalton Rosedale,
own brother to the grand champion Whitehall
Rosedale, is represented by some good cows
among which is Rosebud 3d, a daughter of Rose-
bud 2d, mentioned above. Prince Valentine 4th,
the splendid show and breeding bull used fora
time by Tomson Bros., is the sire of Bonny Belle.
Sheisout ofa Barmpton Kimeht cow whose dam
was by Gallant Kineht. Josephine Daisy is by
the Tomson bred Village Kaineght, a sou of Gal-
lant Knight’s Heir, out of a Barmpton Kaight
dam.

The herd bull is Auburn Dale 569935. Tle is by
Maxwalton Rosedale out of Norwood Augusta 3d
by imp. Crescent Knight. ILis second dam is
np. Augusta 105th. Tlis breeding could not
be mproved and he is acknowledged to be one of
the best sires of lis section,

Wales & Young were leading contributors to
the Northwest sale at Concordia in 1919,

Herman A. Johnson, Osborne.—Mr. Jolinson
is considered a capable judge of cattle and his
Pricnds think he is well qualified to build up a
herd. [lis stock is not pushed for high develop-
ment but is kept in thrifty growing condition. A
considerable part of his Foundation, possibly all,
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was bred by Win. Wales, some of the cows having
heen by the Pomsou bred Scottish Knight. The
bull is use is Spiev Dale 755076 by Maxwalton
Rosedale, the son of ale used SO SUCCESS-
fully by Tomson Bros. and Andrew Pringle.
Like many other simall breeders, Mr. Johnson,
with plenty of enterprise, good feeding and good
breeding can make his herd oecupy a command-
ing position and he seeius to have the ability to
do the work.

R. R. Walker & Sens, Osborne.—It is the in-
tention of the owners to establish a great Short-
horn herd and as fay as can be scen everything is
in their favor. Pasture, water, buildings and
silos as well as iecation furnish the prime requi-
sites of success. The herd is not yet large but it
is beme malaitaied in good breeding condition.
The bull in use is Knight of Ehn Lawn, a two-
year-old bred by Wales & Young. He is by Vil-
lage Knight. (Mee Wales & Young sketch.) His
dai is Ethel 3d 214199. The cows come ee
such herds as that of L. M. Notfsinger
and with the use of high-class sives and attention
to detail the Waikers will succeed in realizing
their ambition.

OTTAWA COUNTY

f Raswvenn. Lamar Tan. “Eaararar
A. A. Tennyson, Lamar.“—Mr. Tennyson

comes froin a Shorthorn family and has the

Ship on Samia Fe or Union Pacitic.
40 \ LUISTORY Ol SELORTILORNS IN KANSAS
instined ina well developed form. Mrs. Pennyson
ind the sons are also enthusiastic to an unusual
eae Rh herd was founded thirteen years
avo and its appearance mdicates purposeful and
constructive breeding. It is a large one, number-
ing probably fifty females of breeding age and I
failed to find one that was not good. There are
uniformity and close adherence to true Short-
horn type that are conmbiite d with pleasing head
and neck. Most of the cattle have very nice
horns and, as a whole, they make an clegant ap-
pearance, In size, both extremes are well avoided,
there being no very large or very small ones. The
calves speak well for their mothers as milkers.
Everything is in thrifty condition but is not
overdone and the cntive herd is kept on pasture
only, during the summer and, exeepting the
young stock, all are kept on cnsilage, alfalfa and
other roughage i the winter. This is one of
those herds that iis a real pleasure to visit and
to study, not on account of great outstanding
merit for bam not clamiunge that, but on account
of gemune worth as a Shorthorn breeding herd
handled tu an econoumeal and practical way
easily within the reach of any progressive farm
er, Agricultural miterests and general Shorthorn
Miterests world be well served if the country were
Pull of such breeders as Mr. and Mrs. Tennyson.
Going back to the herd itself, the cows pur-
chased were good and of nice breeding and evood
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bulls were consistently used. J shall mention
only a few of the bulls. Golden Prince 292034
was bred by Geo. Bothwell. His sire, Golden
Lavender, was a son of Grand Vietor out of imp.
Sittyton Lavender 6th. His dain, Maid of Honor,
was also by Grand Victor and out of imp. Wini-
fred 4th, cousidered by some the best cow im the
Bothwell herd. Athene’s Scotchman, bred by H.
I. Brown, is one of the productions of the
famous Browndale Farm. He was by Athene’s
Victor 2d 251153 out of Harmon’s Athene 4th.
The grand lot of mature cows and big smooth
heifers on the farm makes it needless to say much
about him. He is also the sire of the ten elegant
cows in Fred Abildgaard’s herd neay Winfield.

Crown Prince, the present herd bull, bred by
T. J. Dawe, is by Royal Diadem. (See Dawe
sketch.) His dam is Seeret Beauty bred bv
Owens Bros. by Seeret Barmpton, second dam
by Baron Kerr 2d. This is a big and very beefy
bull of the most profitable producer’s type. He
is a little coarse in the shoulder and shows possi-
bly a little too much prominence of hip but he
has a fine head and neck, fine quarters and a
ereat body set on heavy, short legs. I was very
much pleased with his heifers. They are large,
sincoth and deep and have elegant heads and
necks.

True to the precedent established of using
only high-class bulls, Mr. Tennyson has just
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purchased of the Kansas State Agricultural Col-
lege, Clara’s Type, a roan by Narcissus Type out
of a dam by Matchless Dale. This young fellow
is large with fine head and neck, good top and
bottom lines and a ereat back and spring of ribs.
He combines through his dam and sire, Avon-
dale, the greatest son of the world’s greatest
breeding bull, and Cumberland’s Type, the most
remarkable prize winning bull of the twentieth
century, a wealth of merit in ancestry which
should make him an outstanding breeding bull.
Morse Bros., Delphos.*—These men laid their
foundation two years ago in buying some good
heifers from Jolnson Bros. They were by
Athene’s Seotehman and out of cows by Double
Champion, the Choice Goods bull so extensively
advertised hy Col. Hd Green. Other eows in the
herd are by the Kellerman bred Seottish Gloster
and by Lord Marr, Mv. Gifford’s well known son
of Lord Mavor and imp. Marigold 50th. The
herd bull comes from Tomson Bros. His sire is
Maxwalton Rosedale by Avondale out of imp.
Rosewood Pride. Piis dam is Glendale Pavonia
by Happy Kinelt, son of Gallant Knight out of a
Lord Mayor dam, second dam, ip. Glendale
Pavoma by Bold Count. There is no better
breeding and ET have seen few better young bulls
this vear. Though ronaing out with the herd as
a yearling on pasture and in thin flesh, he is

Ship on Santa Pe or Union Macitte,
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not easily faulted except in some minor points.

There can be little just criticism made either
in the breeding or in the tvpe of the cows of this
herd Dut the conditions under which they are
kept ave not such as to bring out the individual
merit that should justly be theirs by virtue of in-
heritance. No one realizes this more fully than
the owners and they are laying plans to improve
li these details. When they have succeeded they
will be in a position to put up a real Shorthorn
herd.

Johnson Bros., Delphos.—An execllent herd
properly handled and in splendid condition is
what [saw on the Johnson farm. Shorthorn
type, breeding, character, size, fleshing quality,
with good milking tendency covers a description —
of the cows.

The foundation was laid at Mr. Ameoats’ sale
eleht vears ago. Later additions of cows were
made and the well known show and breeding bull,
Gallant Kanght’s Heir, was purchased from
Tomson Bros. He left a lot of nice cows in the
herd and a voung bull by him out of one of the
choice cows ou the farm is the sire of ten good
vearling heifers T saw in one of the pastures.
Athene’s Seotchman, so successfully used by A.
A. Vennyson, also proved valuable here.

Miss Orange Blessom, coming from Fred Gif-
ford, is one of the best cows by Lord Marr, a son
of Lord Mayor and imp. Marigold 50th. Her
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dain, Orange Blossomeasad, came from the Kelloe
Stock Farm and was by Scotchman 447180 by
the Bellows bred Arbassador out of Galanthus

a
by tinp. Barbarossa. Seerct Lass is by Double
Champion, the excelent son of Choice Goods and
Russella, the dam of one of the ercatest of Amer-
lean cows, Ruherta. Seeret Lass is out of a
daughter of Baron Violet, a son of the sensation-
al Sweet Violet 2d. A Tomson bred son of Beaver
Creck Sultan beads the herd and is doing satis-
factory service. ;

B. M. Lyne & Sons, Oak Hill.—Mr. Lyne is one
of the old breeders who has bred his herd and
has made but few additions by purchase. THe has
held five pubhie sales, all classed as successful,
There is uniformity and imueh indication of milk-
ing quality in the herd, two valuable character-
istics Tn any lot of cows. Fair size, straight lines
and evident usefulness were also apparent. The
calves, the test of the cows, were wnusual and
reflected the use of a good bull. Ma. line has
not given his cattle the development he should
but is now instituting a reform im this respect.

Romeo, one of the herd bulls by imp. Bapton
Coronet was very satistactory. Red Laddie by
Captain Areher out of Red Lady 7th by Lord
Thistle was boueht at the Stodder dispersion.
Ife had been at the head of the show herd the
previous season and was a winner, After the
death of his sire he had been used in the breeding
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 545

herd. Violet Search 3d by Searchlight and out of
Violet Bloom by Golden Bloom came from Mr.
Nevius’ herd. Both Red Laddie and Violet
Search 3d left splendid stock. The present bull
is Roval Type by Cumberland Type, dam by
Burwoed Royal, second dam by King Marengo,
a son of King Champion out of imp. Lady Doug-
las followed by Cumberland’s Last and Fitz
Eustace. He looks worthy of his ancestry and
should prove valuable.

F. D. White, Ada.—Mr. White bought three
cows in 1916 and he now has a good start. These
cows were all by Victor Chief 236981, a T. K.
Tomson & Sons bred bull by Dictator out of
Elder Lawn Victoria by Gallant Knight, second
dam, Victoria of Maple Hill, the dam of Gallant
Knight’s Heir. When we consider that Dictator
was own brother to Forest Daisy 2d, dam of the
International grand champion, New Year’s De-
hight, we get an idea of the foundation Mr.
White laid. The bull in use is by Red Laddie,
for one season at the head of the Stodder show
herd, a state fair prize winner by Captain
Archer, own brother to Sweet Mistletoe, dam of
Lespedeza Collynie, the 1919 International grand
champion.

RENO COUNTY

Gaeddert Bros., Buhler.—In 1917 Gaeddert
Bros. made the first purchase of foundation
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stoek securing some of the better animals from
the hookabaugh and Bellows herds. Among the
hest females secured was Parkdale Clipper 5th,
a voan by that excellent heifer getter, Cumber-
land Diamond, well known in Ivansas as chief

 

 

 

 

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herd bull owned by KE. L. Stunkel. Parkdale
Clipper was in calf to Village Supreme and her
heifer calf from the International grand ceham-
pen was first at both the Kansas and Oklahoma
state fairs and stood second ina class of twenty-
eleht at the Kansas National Show in 1920. Be-
Fore this heifer was a year old, $2500 had twice
heen refused for her. Another excellent cow is
Crimson’s Danghter, a stretchy red that is very
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 547

close to the ground and is an extraordinary
milker, A bull ealf from this cow, though show-
ing at a big disadvantage as to age, was well at

the top of his class at Muskogee, at Dallas, and

 

 

 

 

 

LAVENDE2 PRINCESS 7h THAT TOPPED THE 1920 PURPLE
RIBBON SALE FOR GAEDDERT BROS.
at the Kansas National. A red heifer by Pleas-
ant Dale Sultan out of Crimson’s Daughter is
one of the highly prized young things on the
farm. Lady Geraldine 9th, a red by Geo, Allen &
Sons’ noted son of Whitehall Sultan, Victor
Sultan, is out of a cow by a son of imp. Lavender
Lad followed by imp. Baron Cruickshank. Her
first calf, Roan Geraldine, sold at the Purple
Ribbon sale at Wichita in 1920 for $1225. This
cow is closely descended from a long ne of sires
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and dams bred by Ma. Cruickshank himself and
the pedigree is especially attractive.

The cows mentioned in the foregoing are only
a few of the good ones in the Gaeddert herd, the

 

 

 

 

 

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rest being of the same desirable breeding and
conformation. Lt will be evident to any one in-
terested in Shorthorns and possessing a fair
knowledge of Shorthorn pedigrees that the Gaed-
dert cattle properly belong, by virtue of inher-
ited quality, among the tops of the breed.
Asinall worth-while herds, the bull is the first
consideration. In the purchase of Pleasant Acres
Sultan Gaeddert Bros. went to one of the foun-
tain heads of Shorthorn excellence for a sire. In
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1917 this bull was the senior calf in the Looka-
baugh show herd and he stood first in class at
four state fairs. He was also at the head of the
first prize young herd and of the first prize calf

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herd and he was one of the group that won the
eet of sive prize, for his illustrious sire, Fair
Acres Sultan. Of this calf Mr. Lookabaugh says,
‘Pleasant Acres Sultan was undefeated at the
state fairs where he was shown. He looks very
much like his half brother, Rosewood Reserve
that sold for $8100.’? As a four-year-old bull
Pleasant Acres Sultan shows a magnificent
front with straight top and bottom lines and few
bulls show as much finish, especially at the tail
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head as he. As a sire he is all that could be de-
sired. His calves are easy feeders with the same
soft touch, excellent finish and splendid carriage
as their sire.

Seyb Bros. & French, Pretty Prairie.—This
firm consists of J. C. Seyb and W. H. Seyb,
brothers, and L. R. Freneh, a brother-in-law.
Each owns and cares for his own cattle but they
own their pasture lands and herd bulls in com-
mon and co-operate im any commercial trans-
actions in the way of sales. The quality, as well
as the blood lines of these herds, is largely the
same. All of these men are in the business to
stay and they plan to become real Shorthorn
breeders making their herds first-class and pass-
ing the business on to the boys of the families.
They have sufficient pasturage, plenty of alfalfa
with cnsilage and an abundance of water. With
the care they are giving their herds they will,
without question, be able to carry out their un-
dertaking.

The cows are straight and smooth and are the
kind that look hke good producers. Phe breeding
of pure breds began eight years ago following
the raising of ligh grades, a few of which are
still in the herds but which will gradually be
closed out as the pure breds increase. The orig-
inal purchases were made from the herds of Dr.
R. A. Stewart and other loeal breeders and in-
clude two splendid cows bred by Alex Fraser,
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one of which, a great roan, by Falsetto, repre-
sents the high priced Duchess Lne crossed with
the best Seoteh bulbs of the day. Among the
sires of the cows are sich bulls as Lord Banff 2d,
favorably known son of imp. Lord Banff; Victor
Archer, Di. Stewart’s show and breeding bull;
Forest Knight by Gallant Kaight out of a dam
by Norfolk, a famous sire in B. O. Cowan’s herd
and Dictator by Norfolk out of Daisy of North
Oaks oth. This last bull was a full brother to the
dam of New Year’s Delight, one of America’s
ereatest show heifers. A recent addition of two
cows Was inade from the herd of R. i. Gallatin of
Missouri and they fit nicely with those on hand.
While good bulls have always been used Mr. J.
C. Seyb says the last two have been the best of
the lot. They both came from John Regier.
White News was a big, thick, stretchy fellow and
an exceptional breeder as a lot of heiters by hin
show. Fie was by New Goods out of Edelweiss
5th by Nonpareil Star and she was out of imp.
Edelweiss by Star of Destiny. The present bull
is a very sinooth, good sized red, a winner at the
Kansas State Fair, and judging by four calves
of his get, now nearly a year old, he is au unusual
breeder. His sire, Dale Hublem, is by Double
Dale and his dam 1s by new Goods out of a cow
by imp. Lord Banff. The pedigree value of this
bull is enbaneed by the fact that Double Dale is
frequentiy vated the best breeding son of
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Avondale while imp. Lord Bantl was the first
Seoteh bull to sell for more than $5000.

J. C. Banbury & Sons, Plevna.*—This is a
herd of 175 head, practically all of which are
Polled Shorthorus. EH has been built up by the
use of excellent bulls from herds noted for qual-
ity of output, the three leading Polled herds of
America having been heavily drawn on for
breeding stock. One of the cows, Miami Golden
Drop 2d, came from J. H. Miller, Peru,
Indiana, the world’s) greatest Polled breed-
ey. Hler sire is Sultan of Anoka, one of
Mr. Hardine’s best productions by the world’s
ereatest sire, Whitehall Sultan. The other cows
in the herd are rightly bred and are of very pop-
lar blood lines, ineluding splendid) specimens
from leading herds im Indiana, Missouri: and
Kansas.

One of the herd bulls, Orange Champion, came
from J. H. Miller’s twelve years ago. He was by
Roan Archer, also bred by Mr. Miller, in facet,
the ancestry of this bull was largely of the Miller
breeding. Sultan’s Pride is by the International
grand champion Poiled ball, True Sultan, a
noted sire of prize winners, a son of Sultan of
Anoka, and one of the smoothest, best finished
bulls of any breed ever seen on the western show
eireuit. Sultan’s Pride was also a first-class
show bull having been frst and junior champion

Marni ia Reno and Pratt counties
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in 1915 at Lineoln, Topeka, Hutchinson and
Oklahoma City. In 1916 he was first at Bur-
ington, Des Meines and Hutchinson where Mr.
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These cattle are in the Banbury
herd and represent the Banbury
type.

herd and put him to siring calves which show him
to be even greater as a breeder than as a show
bull. Roan Orange, one of the largest bulls of
the breed and a sou of Orange Champion, is still
one of the leading herd bulls and is doing excel-
lent service. Grand Sultan, a son of the noted
sire, Meadow Sultan, is also winning fame for
his owners and for the breed.

The conditions wnder which these cattle are
kept imsure the production of the profitable
kind that give maximum returns for the feed
eonsuined and they will do their full share im
driving out the scrubs as well as the horus.

W. J. Hoiloran, Castieton.—Mr. Holloran has
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heen breeding Shorthorus for six years. The
cows purchased represent a good line of sires
such as Ideal Archer by Victor Archer, Sceret
Prince by Prince Pavonia out of a dam by Gal-
lant Kaiiehbt and Baime’s Goods by Ruberta’s
(oods out of dip. Princess Fame. The herd bull
Rosewood Villager, is by Rosewood Dale, his
dam is by Good Choice and his second dam is by
Fitz Eustace, a son of Cumberland, the bull that
made C, A. Sannders famous. These cattle have
not been handled for best results but Ma. Hollor-
an is making some Hnprovements which will
work for better conditions and consequent better
development of the herd.

F. H. Oldenettel, Haven.—Mr. Oldcnettel is a
new breeder who bought a bull and a few cows
from Tomson Bros. in 1919. Violet Lady is one
of the good ones. Her sire, Butterfly Collynie
by Seeret Abbotsburn, carrics near the top of
his pedigree the blood of Wp. Collynie, sire of
Sweet Mistletoe, dam of the 1919 International
erand champion and that of Young Abbotsburn,
erand champion of Ameriea. The bullis Village
Rex by Village Diamond, son of imp. Villager.
His dain is by Cuinberland Marshal, sive of the
noted MeDermott bred Village Marshal, now in
use in the Tomson herd.

D. M. Beitler, Sterling —Though Mr. Beitler
has only a few cattle now, he has been handling
Shorthorvns for the last twelve years. [lis herd
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is largely representative of Victor Archer, the
excellent son of Archer, that in Dr. Stewart’s
show herd made quite a reputation. A dash of
mnp. Collynie was also secured through the use
of The Kaiser 577445. A son of Vietor Archer
IS I SeFVICe at present.

REPUBLIC COUNTY

R. B. Donham, Taimo.—Mr. Douham was
raised iba Shorthorn family in Johnson county.
He has a herd of twenty-five females and half of
them are outstanding specimens of the breed.
He demands that his cows be large, though not
extreme li sige, and his svstem of feeding is such
as to produce as thick flesh and good general de-
velopment as is consistent with future usefulness.

Aly. Donhain has been exhibiting at the Repub-
hie, Clay and Mitchell county fairs, winning nunr-
evous prizes and at each of these fairs his herd
bull, Vietoria’s Baron 2d, was made the grand
champion agaist strong competition. He has
heen a contributor to both the Northwest Associ-
ation sales held at Concordia and he has held one
sale on lis own account which was rated as very
successful.

The help problem has been solved on this 320
acre farm by employing permanently a inarried
man. The farm is devoted almost exclusively to
pasture and the growing of alfalfa, cusilage
and cattle. The Shorthorn herd will be increased
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both by retaimime the best of the heifers produced
and by making an occasional purchase. The cows
inthe Donham herd represent the most popular
of the Ciuiekshank and Marr fanmiuilies and some
of the pedigrees are especially attractive.

Miss Lavender, a roan bred by T. J. Blake, is
eood enough to have won the grand ¢hampion-
ship at the 1919 Republic county fai. Her sire,
Roval Gloster, was by the popular Royal
Diadem and her dam, Lady Acorn, was
by Barmipton Bud 152945. Red Alexandria
is a daughter of Orange Lad, a son of
Geo. Allen’s Vier sultan, one of the: best
Whitehall Sultan sires. Her damm is Miss Dale
by Merry Dale, a son of Avondale out of imp.
Matrimony. At the 1920 sale held by C. 8.
Nevius & Sons, Mr. Donham strengthened his
herd by buying Valentine’s Violet, a white two-
vear old by Emuna’s Valentine, for $1325. This
is one of the richest and most popularly bred
heifers in Kansas or elsewhere, for this line of
breeding has produced Lady Supreme, the 1919
and 1920 ¢rand champion cow west of the Miss-
issippl and Lespedeza Collyime, the 1919 grand
champion bull at the Daternational. Valentine’s
Violet and her heifer calf by Golden Seareh
would add great value and prestige to any herd.
Golden Signet, an clegant twelve-month-old
red heifer by Golden Seareh, also fell to Ma. Don-

ham’s bidding.
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In April 1918 at a sale of good Shorthorns, a
friend asked me to piek out for him the best bull
in the sale and £ selected Vietoria’s Baron 2d.
Mr. Donham saw this bull a week later and by
paying my friend $200 profit, he secured the
ealf, then just twelve months old, for use in his
herd. He has grown into a spleudid show and
breeding bull, whieh is only what could reason-
ably be expected of him, for his ancestry has <
rich inheritance of what is best in Shorthorns.
Secret Baron, his sire, was probably the best son
of Snowsterm, the elegant breeding son of
Snowflake, sive of the three times International
grand champion Ringmaster. His dam is by
Choice Collynie, a bull that in the first remove
descends from Choice Goods and imp. Cellynie,
Roval Knight and the two great cows, Wistful
and imp. Princess Alice.

E. A. Cory & Sons, Talmo.—The senior mem-
ber of this firm is well known as sales manager
for the Northwest Kansas Association. This is
an old established herd and there are now almost
100 females on the farm. One of the best cows
from which the herd descends is Belle of Ever-
green 30th, sixteen years old, the dam of
thirteen calves, ten of them heifers. She has
weighed 1960 pounds and is considered by My.
Cory a first-class Shorthorn cow. The size as
indicated by this cow is one of the features of
the herd which includes numbers of animals of
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more than usual quality. The original Hine of
eattle has beeu supplemented from other
herds. Jewell Star came from Blank Bros.
& Kleen and her sive, imp. Strowan Star, holds a
reputation that adds prestige to lis get. Being
from good ancestry on her dam’s side, she is a
worthy addition to the herd. Redbird, a four-
vear-old, is by Missie’s Sultan 361372, son of Vie-
tor Sultan one of the favorably known western
sons of Whitehall Sultan.

During the past season six valuable females
have been purchased. These are of present day
popular blood lines and inelude Lanecaster’s
Lady, first prize and champion female at the
Republie county fair. Her sive is Village Flash
of inter-state fame in the herds of Ed Hall and
Evans Bros. and a son of imp. Villager. The
dam of Laneaster’s Lady is Sultana Lancaster by
Sultan Supreme, sire of Village Supreme, Inter-
national grand champion im 1916. Splendor
Belle, another four-vear-old, strong in Villager
blood, is by Augusta’s Villager by imp. Villager
and her dam is by imp. Scottish Sentinel, both
bulls of much excellence. The six heifers are con-
sidered by Mr. Cory a rave lot and, coming as
they do from good herds and being backed up by
ancestry of acknowledged merit) and popular
breeding, they can hardly help proving a wise
Investment,

Two bulls ave needed in this large herd. One
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of them is the three-year-old Village King 649268
From Henry Kupper’s herd, sired by Augusta’s
Villager by imp. Villager. Village King’s dam
is Autumn Queen Mary by imp. Scottish Sen-
tinel, second dam by imp. Strowan Star. It is
only reasonable to presume that the use of this
bull would give excellent results. The other one
is Sultan’s Champion 728280. His sire is Fair
Champion, one of the good sons of the noted sire,
Fair Acres Sultan. (See Borger sketch.) His
damm is by Maxwalton Rosedale, own brother to
Whitehall Rosedale, American Royal and west-
ern state fair grand champion. As this is written
he is just twenty-one months old and Ma. Cory
writes me that he weighs nearly 1700 pounds.

The Cory herd is being kept in a section where
Shorthorns grow big and are supreme, helping to
maintain the size of the breed.

E. A. Campbell, Wayne.—A herd of thirty fe-
males is found on this farm. The cows are of
good size and the voung stock is well grown.
Mr. Campbell was an exhibitor at the Republie
county fair in 1918 and 1919 and won his share of
the ribbons cach year. He was one of the contrib-
utors to the Northwest sale at Concordia in
1919.

Cumberland Gem, a four-year-old roan cow, 18
by Double Sultan by Sultan of Anoka, one of the
best of Whitehall Sultan’s sons. Her dam is by
True Cumberland 2d by Cumberland’s Last,
O60 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

most famous sive of the family. Golden Lady is
a three-year-old roan by Kansas Lad, a son of
Pride of Collynie, not only an excellent sire but
a bull with prestige of ancestry and own brother
to Sweet Mistletoe, the dam of Lespedeza Col-
lynie, International grand champion im 1919.

The bulls in the past were Choice Master 2d
414200, and Kansas Lad, the Pride of Collynie
bull mentioned above. "Two bulls are now in the
herd. Royal Diamond by Sittyton Minstrel 386-
816 out of Diamond Victoria 190666 by the cham-
pion, Diamond Goods and Lord Albion 819181
by Pride of Albion, the wonderful white bull that
has been a consistent prize winner all over the
Shorthorn country. It does not require much
stretch of the imagination to predict for Mr.
Campbell a successful Shorthorn career.

Since the article above was written Mr. Camp-
bell has greatly strengthened lis breeding herd
by the addition of two of the best females sold in
the 1920 Nevius sale, Violet’s Gratitude 836415
and Cherry Blossom 10th 886409. Both these
heifers are of the best known Scotch breeding
end Cherry Blossom 10th is of the same family
and blood lines as the cow that topped the Park
E. Salter sale at $3500 in 1919.

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purchases for the Walton herd came from local
breeders and were strong, rugged cows of quite
eood blood lines, but as in most cases they repyre-
sented no eoncentrated effort to secure defiiite
results. There was especially lacking that unmi-
formity so desired by experienced breeders.

The first bull that was able to put his impress
on the herd and make a marked advance toward
the desired end was Lavender Search 405668, a
son of Searchlight. His dam was one of Mr.
Nevius’ good cows, sired by the champion, Choice
Goods. His dam was by imp. Lavender Lad,
Mr. Dustin’s great son of Scottish Archer, and
the next cross was Golden Rule, the famous
Robert Miller show and breeding bull. Lavender
Search is very close to the ground, carries heavy
flesh and is good from end to end. About twenty
of lis daughters of all ages will be in the herd
and they are of the even, smooth, attractive kind
that are almost invariably satisfactory breeders,
A ainunber of acceptable additions have been
made recently, among them a beautiful red two-
year-old from Park E. Salter’s herd and sired by
Rosewood Dale. An occasional female will be
added by purchase.

A most fortunate selection of a herd bull was
made in 1914, Prince Valentine 4th, one among
the best of Kansas bulls. Fe is now being used
and will probably be continued in service here as
long as he is useful. This ten-year-old bull was
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one of the best things that Mr. Nevius ever pro-
duced. Asa show bull he had few equals and in
my travels over castern Kansas I have found a
lot of his get of both sexes and every one 1s
good. His calves have stood high at leading
shows and both his bulls and heifers are such as
to place him in the list of high-class sives. He
has been used with much suecess by Mr. Nevius,
Tomson Bros., and H. H. Holmes and Mr. Wal-
ton was fortunate in getting him.

Since the article above was written Mr. Wal-
ton bought seven of the top females sold at the
1920 Southeast Kansas sale at Independence as
well as a few choice ones elsewhere. Prince Val-
entine 4th is very sure and the building of an
excellent herd is in vapid progress.

A. Case & Sons, Sterling.—The sons of this
firm are students of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College, the older one being a graduate
veterinarian. Six years ago they bought of Tom-
son Bros. five heifers, two by Gallant Knight’s
Heir and three by Barmpton Knight. Their
dams were of choice Tomson and Babst breeding.
These heifers have developed into nice cows,
several of them being of show yard type. The
bull bought at that time was Lord Mayor 3d by
Lord Mayor out of Forest Daisy of Norfolk. He
was not only a satisfactory breeder but he was
also a high-class show bull. This is not surpris-
ing since a full sister to his dam produced for
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‘Tomson Bros. the great heifer, New Year’s De-
hight, International junior and American Roval
erand champion. Little of the inerease has been
kept in the past but it is now planned to enlarge
the herd by production. They have added to
their equipment a big silo and a field of alfalfa.

A bull has been purchased (1920) from
H, M.. Hill, said by Mr. Hill to be one of
his best products. tis sire is Master of the
Dales by Avondale and his dam is Minima Lady
hy Ingle Lad, followed by 47th Duke of Airdrie,
Thistlewood and imp. King of Aberdeen. The
Ingle Lad cows are rated among the best breed-
ing cows in Kansas and this particular fam-
Hy in Mr. Hill’s herd has produced uniformly
eood cattle.

G. N. Leclerc, Lyons.*—Ten years ago Mr.
Leclere bought one Shorthorn cow, Mable 41518,
and the entire herd comes from her. The old
cow, how thirteen years old, is vigorous, 1s suck-
ling a lusty calf and looks equal to having several
more calves. While there are some good cows
in this herd, yet it lacks somewhat in the uni-
formity that might be expeeted in the deseend-
ants of one cow, due probably to the use of bulls
varying in type. One of the best bulls was Lord
Archer. (See Smith sketeh.) His eet is smooth
and even. The entire herd produces well and a
very promising young bull is in serviee. He

Telephone, Mitchell.
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is a correct Shorthorn tvpe, very straight with a
big body, fine head aud neck and a disposition to
do well on pasture seldom found in a bull of his
age. [lis sire is by Star Goods, full brother to
Diamond Goods and out of a cow by Victor Or-
ange, probably Henry Stunkel’s best bull. The
voung bull is out of a cow by Buccaneer, a son of
np. Collynie out of a daughter of inp. Mariner
and his grandam is by Seottish Prince, a son of
Mup. Lord Cowshp out of Red Queen by inp.
Scotchman. Mr. Leclerc is located near a splen-
did cattle country where cattle of the right kind
are appreciated and he should have no trouble in
disposing of his surplus. He is proving that a
young man can successfully grow a Shorthorn
herd from one cow—and his method should be
followed by others.

Rousseau Smith & Son, Lyons.*—We have
here a striking Ulustration of the value of one
cow. Eight years ago Mr. Smith bought a big
red cow, Peerless, by Liberty Boy, a son of the
champion, Viscount of Anoka. Her dam was by
the Gentry bred Peris Victorious by Victorious.
Brom this cow he has about twenty females,
among them ten b ae cows of splendid Short-
horn type with size and | oe quédity, and all
of them prolific oa suckhne their calves abun-
dantly. He bas prob ome sold enough in these

 

vears to pay the keep of the herd.

Telephone, Mitchell.
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At the same time Mr. Sinith also bought a cow
by Double Champion, the Choice Goods bull out
of Hussella, dhe dam of Ruberta and, though she
soon beeame barren, several valuable females
from her have been retaimmed. Tn the herd there
Insane especially attractive cow that would be a
eredit to any one and all the cattle are good. The
bulls used have been Lord Archer by Protector,
ason of Barnipton Kinght and out of a dam by
Dir. Stewart’s Victor Archer and Buster by
Double Champion and out of a cow by Vise
count of Anoka. Plans are now bere made
to put in service ai first-class bull, the
one thing lackine to make this a No. dP herd. Mr.
Sith isa good eare-laker. Ile pays attention
to detail and Feeds well and with the bull that is
to be secured we may expect the results that fol-
low proper mating of good cows and caring well
for the herd.

Hunter Bros., Lyons—his is the W. KH. Tlunt-
er herd taken over by sons at Mr. Hunter’s death.
It is the oldest herd in Riee county and at this
fine consists of about twenty-five Females. The
young men dmtend keeping up the business, work-
ing iinprovements as they have opportunity: to
do soe. Conditions are Favorable as they have
wood pasture and alfalfa. Phe present herd bull
Isa large, stretchy, even-lined Fellow that should
Hipart plenty of size to his get and merease the

seale of the eow herd. hike nearly all the herds
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of Rice county this lot of Shorthorns earries the
blood brought in by E. H. Rutledge through
Double Champion and Liberty Boy and the
Inany good cows which composed that herd.

John J. Donnelly, Little River.—Mr. Donnelly
has only made a start but the cattlemen of his
community have always made good and he will
do so. A sample of his herd is found in Ruby
Lavender. Her sire, Lavender Seareh, is a great
individual by Searchlight out of a Choice Goods-
Collynie cow. The foundation comes from good
herds and the output of this herd will be worthy
of recogiition.

RILEY COUNTY

Theo. Olson & Sons, Leonardville.-—One is apt
to form an opinion of a herd by the cattle seen
at different places and from this viewpoint I had
formed a very favorable one of the Olson herd.
What I have seen recently has confirmed my
opinion, At a mecting of the Northwest Kansas
association the Olson entries to the sale were
Inehly ereditable and one, a fourteen-month-old
heifer, must be counted among the best things I
have seen this season.

It is amid the most favorable surroundings
that this herd is kept—two silos, 100 acres of al-
falfa, blue stem, alfalfa and bluc grass for pas-
ture, along with the needed grain to get develop-
wwent without any of the injurious effects of
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forcing, have produced good cattle and it is ne
wonder that there are some outstanding ones i
the herd.

The seventy-five females range from medium
to large. Royal Pauline is by Royal Marshall,
grand champion and sire of big, beefy, smooth
Shorthorus in ereat numbers. Royal Pauline’s
dam comes from Purdy Bros. and was by Lord
Champion, a sire noted all over the West. True
Good’s Fashion is a roan of excellent form and
character. Her sire, True Goods, was by Mr. Me-
Dermott’s Pair Goods, the white son of the cham-
pion, Choice Goods and Ruberta the undefeated.
Her dam is by Lady Acorn 2d by Barmpton.
Diana is by Roan King, a son of Snowflake, sire
of Ringmaster, the only bull that was three
times an International grand champion. Her
dam is Orange Belle by Hampton’s Fashion, son
and grandson of two of the greatest Gullg of
Europe and America, imp. Merry Hampton and
mnp. Baron Cruic ehanle

As to the bulls that did service in this herd,
tover, a roan, was hy the Deane Willis
bred Bapton Coronet, a sou of the famous Silver
Plate. Rover’s dam was by Golden Archer, a sou
of imp. Master Archer by Best of Archers and
out of dnp. Lady-in-Waiting. Defender came
from Tomson Bros. Tis sire was Barmpton
Kanght, one of the best bulls of his day and sire

of many show cattle al big shows inehidine the
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futeruational, At present there are two bulls
In service. Sultan is by Village Beau, son of
the great Villager and inp. Belle of Ordeans.
His dain is by Geo, Allen’s Victor Sultan, one of
the best sons of Whitehall Sultan. Village Boy
is by Pleasant Dale 2d, sire of Lavender Lord
and Maxwalton Averne, dam of the $10000 2d
Fair Acres Sultan. His dam is by Sultan’s Last,
the Whitehall Sultan bull used at Uppermill
along with Villager, second dam by Proud Sul-
tan, also by Wlitehall Sultan. The get of the
first named bull which can be seen as young cows
will please critical visitors. In general they carry
the type of Village Beau, lis noted sire.

The W. J. & O. B. Burtis and Henry B. Bayer
Herds, Manhattan.—These herds are operated
under separate ownership and management but
are similarly located. Mr. Bayer is a son-in-law
of the elder Burtis and the farms adjoin. They
co-operate on the herd bull, in the matter of sell-
ing and im many other details. The herds should
he considered together as intending purchasers
wil have access to both establishments. The
farms consist of excellent corm and alfalfa lands
and the best of upland Jamestone pasture with
plenty of spring water. In addition to the Union
Pacifie and Rock Island railroads at Manhattan
only three miles away, the Dnterurban from
Junetion City to Manhattan runs through the
farms and cars stop at the doors. The Golden
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Belt Inghway also runs through the farms.

Both herds were established in 1919. It was
not until April 1920 that a herd bull was secured,
Jealous Dale, the splendid bull at Bluemont
Farms, having been used prior to that time.
When it was decided to buy a bull My. Walter
Burtis attended the Central Sale at Kansas City
and he will be remembered as the bidder up to
$3500 on Sanquhar Sultan, the Tomson bull that
sold for #8550. Failing to get this bull, they
took advantage of the opportunity and bought
lis sire, Beaver Creek Sultan, from Tomson
Bros. This grandson of Whitehall Sultan is a bie,
thick, short-legged white with a reputation as a
ereat sire, his get having sold at big prices and
matured into splendid animals.

The Burtis Cows.—Dale’s Helen is one of the
best daughters of Master of the Dales. Ter dam
is Helen 51st sold in one of the Southeast Kansas
sales for $1000. Sycamore Pavonia, also by
Master of the Dales, is out of Glendale Pavonia
2d by the excellent sire, Scotland’s Charm, see-
ond dam, unp. Pavomia. This is the same an-
cestry as Mr. Nevius’ Prince Pavonia. Queen
Mistletoe (No. 24 Hl. M. Hill Herd Catalog) is a
red five-year-old cow whose calves have sold in
Southeast sales at $805 and $1000. Golden Mis-
tletoe, the dam of Queen Mistletoe, has also been
purchased for this herd. She is by Prince Mistle-
toe, a son of Mistletoe 2d, own sister to Sweet
A IHSTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS 571

Mistletoe, dam of Lespedeza Collynie, sensation-
al two-year-old show bull and 1919 International
grand champion. This cow sold at the 1918
Southeast sale for $1245.

The Bayer Cows.—Worthy of special mention
is Sempstress 2d bred by S. C. Hanna. Her sire,
Prince Royal, was by imp. Collynie out of imp.
Princess Royal 62d. Her dam, Sempstress of
Oakland Sth, was one of the highest priced cows
in the Cox dispersion sale and her sire, Thistle-
wood, and grandsire, inp. King of Aberdeen,
were two of America’s noted bulls. The white,
Butterfly Belle, is a Dryden bred daughter of
Archer’s Hope and her dain is out 6f imp. But-
terfly 51st. Sycamore Secret Sth is by Master of
the Dales by Avondale and her dam, Ingle’s Se-
cret by Tugle Lad, was out of Sycamore Secret by
imp. Collynie. There are no cows better de-
seended than these,

Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhat-
tan.—The Shorthorn herd at the College now
consists of forty-cight head of splendid, well bred
eattle. Many of the best families are repre-
sented, including the Duchess of Gloster, Butter--
fly, Orange Blossom, Mina, Lavender, Queen of
Beauty, Gwendoline, Jealousy, Bessie and Clara.

Matchless Dale, the senor herd bull, is known
by the winnings of steers sired by him. None of
his heifers have been shown at the big shows, but
his daughters are wonderful cows, broad, deep,
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thiek and smooth with a lot of quality and swect
Fominine character. Only recently, May 26, 1920,
one of his daughters, College Duchess 2d, sold for
#3900 in the Kansas Shorthorn Breeders Associ-
ation Sale. She sold right out of the pasture in
ordinary flesh. Matchless Dale, now thirteen
years old, is as active and vigorous as a two-year-
old and he still maintains that wonderfully kind
and gentle disposition.

When it was necessary to have a bull to cross
upon the daughters of Matchless Dale, having
noted the splendid success attained by our fore-
most breeders by line breeding, the College
sought and found a bull vich in the blood of
Avondale. He is sired by Revolution by Avon-
dale and is out of the-good show cow, Maxwalton
Mina 8th. She and her dam were both sired by
Avondale. This makes the blood of the new bull
Marauder, five-eights Avondale. His first crop
of calves now coming (1920) are an exceptionally
promising lot.

Until recently only a few bulls have been sold
by the College but. this order of things has been
changed and excellent youngsters are now going
out to do service i Kansas herds.

Otto Bros., Riley. —Otto Bros. have a herd of
fifteen e@ood females deseended from a small
purchase made seven years ago. They are grow-
ing the voung stoek well and with plenty of pas-
ture and alfalfa will be enabled to produce size
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as well as quality. While the herd bulls of the
past have carried the blood of some worthy an-
cestry, it is only within the last year that a real
effort has been made to obtain the kind of a bull
that should attract attention. Those who saw
and read the last April edition of The Shorthorn
in America may recall having seen a picture of a
roan bull calf by Matchless Dale alongside his
dai, Pride’s Bessie, a first-class beef cow with a
milk record of more than 8000 peunds. This
young bull, Best of Dales, is Otto Bros.’ herd
bull. He represents not ouly what is best for the
producer of beef as shown in the fact that Mateh-
less Dale has sired mere prize winning beef steers
than has any other bull of any breed living or
dead and that his dam would be a strong con-
testant ina beef class show, but he represents the
very thine needed by the small farmer whose
vows must raise good heeft cattle vet give milk for
the family and frequently also for market.
Pride’s Bessie, dam of Best of Dales, is illus-
trated on page 11 of this book. Tn lending their
aid to the solution of the farm cow problem Otto
Bros. will not go wnrewarded.

Bluemont Farm, Manhattan.—This lot of for-
ty females is one of the well selected Kansas
herds, including daughters of Avondale and Vil-
lager and of other good bulls as well as of some
imported cows. The object is to develop, along
with the prestige of best ancestry, a herd of cows
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weighing near 1500 pounds and giving T7000 to
9000 pounds of milk a year. The bull used is
Jealous Dale by Matchless Dale, dain by Avon-
dale, second dam by Whitehall Sultan. The
owners of this herd are two of the best known
cattlemen in the United States with whom the
Bluemont Farm project is a minor line of busi-
ness,

W. J. Weisner, Manhattan.—Mr. Weisner is
located a short distance from the city on a farm
well adapted to growing Shorthorns. He expects
to build up a good herd and he has a mice foun-
dation comme from Andrew Pringle and repre-
sentative of the excellent breeding bulls Myr.
Pringle has always used. This gives him the
blood of such famous sires as Col. Harris’ Gold-
en Knight, imp. Thistletop and the great cow,
linp. Golden Thistle by Roan Gauntlet, imp.
Baron Vietor and others of the leading western
sires. Tis herd bull has one of the best possible
recommendations in that he combines the blood
of four outstanding herds, the two Betteridge
herds, Tebo Lawn and that of B. O. Cowan.

SEDGWICK COUNTY
A. W. Jacob, Valley Center.—Treating the
present herd as a foundation, Mr. Jacob has
abundant material with which to achieve any
degree of success he may wish to attain. There
are some excellent cows m1 his: herd, closely
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descended from bulls that have produced the best
class of Shorthorns in south central Kansas. Red
Royal by Royal Knight, son of the great
cow imp. Princess Alice; Star Goods and Victor
Orange, both of inter-state reputation in the
Stunkel herd; Captain Archer, own brother to
Sweet Mistletoe, dam of the 1919 International
grand champion; inp. Prince of Perth, through
a son out of Goldfinch, own sister to the Interna-
tional grand champion, Lavender Viscount;
Lord Mayor, famous sire for Col. Harris and T.
P. Babst and a host of good ones of lesser repu-
tation are much in evidence in the top crosses. A
valuable addition to the cow herd, Broadhook’s
Gem, in calf to Dale’s Renown, was secured at
the Robison sale in 1919,

Mr. Jacob has been in the business long enough
to know that the big end of all breeding opera-
tions lies in the bull at the head of the herd. He
recently bought Bonny Emblem, a very promis-
ing white yearling. He is a son of imp. Proud
Emblem Jv. whose sire Proud Emblem is one of
the most popular bulls in Scotland as well as the
sire of numerous Ainerican bulls of national re-
putation.

O. B. Hall, Oatville—Two years ago Mr. Hall
bought a few Shorthorns and he is planning to
carry on breeding along with his extensive wheat
raising. Several of the cows came from E. L.
Stunkel and represent the select Stunkel
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line of breeding so favorably known in south
central Kansas. <A very good cow of excellent
blood dines was added at the Wichita spring sale
1919, A promising young bull out of a daugh-
ter of Maxwalton Rosedale is one of the splendid
prospects. Ma. Hall has ample facilities for
handling Shorthorns successfully and should he
decide to make a veal business of it he would sue-
ceed igetting together an outstanding herd.

B. J. Spexarth, Colwich—Mr. Spexarth has
five good females descended from the cow Violet
9th bought at the Stunkel dispersion. This cow
is bv Star Goods, own brother to the chainpion,
Diamond Goods, and her dain is of the approved
stunkel breeding. The herd bull came fiom A.
W. Jacob and was by a son of Captain Archer,
own brother to Sweet Mistletoe, daa of ms le
International grand champion bull. Mar. Spex-
arth has plenty of pasture and alfalfa, He has
the assistance of lis sons who intend to breed
Shorthorns for themselves later.

SHAWNEE COUNTY
Tomson Bros., Dover and Wakarusa.*—I like
che story of the rise of Tomson Bros. because it
is So natural that its very simplicity appeals to
me. When the first Shorthorn was bought at a
farm sale in 1886, there was probably nothing
fo indieate that the three boys of the family

Station for Dover farm is Willard on the Roek Tshand.
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would ever be known outside their own vicinity.
He would have been considered foolish indeed,
who should have pointed out the oldest as future
president of the American Shorthorn Breeders
Association; the second, editor of the official
organ of that association: and the third, then an
overgrown boy, as one of the best judges of beef
eattle in the world and one of the best beloved
members of the entire Shorthorn fraternity. Yet
such advancement has resulted from the first
purchase of a good Shorthorn and subsequent
purchases made by a wise father and urged by
the enthusiastic sons, who were good cattlemen
and who learned that there was something better
in store for them than could be gained by com-
peting im a crowded industry, trying to
make over an article that had been made or
marred by someone else.

There was plenty of room at the top. It was
possibly net until the days when Gallant
Knight’s calves began to show the quality of his
wonderful ancestry that the Tomsons saw vis-
ions and dreamed dreams of a great future for
them and their favorite breed of cattle. What
they saw has come to pass. When the leading
Shorthorn breeders of America are listed, the
name ‘‘Tomson Bros.’’ is always near the top of
the roll.

It was accomplished by enthusiasm, the qual-
ity called stick-to-it-iveness, and conservative
 

 

 

 

 

 
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methods. Tomsons have never been plungers.
Every purchase has been carefully considered.
Every dollay has been paid out only when it was
clear that the investment was a wise one. So
year after year they have climbed a little higher.
There is a valuable lesson in the history of this
firm. The path to the same success Tomson
Bros. have achieved is still open and opportun-
ities are as good now as they were for them. It
is true, Shorthorns can no longer be bought for
what they paid for their start; neither does the
beginner have to sell his produce for from #25 to
#50 each as T. kK. Tomson & Sons did in their
early experience.

It was stated in Part I that the real history of
the Tomson herd began with Gallant Knight. It
is doubtful if many bulls of the past two or three
decades proved as good sires of females as Gal-
lant Knight, though he did not have the benefit
of great mmatrons as many sires of the present
day have. Searcely a year of the twelve in
which his get were shown in the fair circuits but
that one or more of his daughters claimed a
championship. His use in the herd brought about
aimutformity in type that gained wide popularity
for the Tomson productions. The Gallant
Knight females proved of great value as pro-
dueers and the Gallant Knight blood is still a fac-
tor in the Tomson herd.

Archer, a dark roan of generous seale, a son
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of imp. Collyme and imp. Ciree 8d, was pur-
chased and for several years used extensively i
the herd, Ile possessed great robustness, citsy
Feeding quality, strong, well covered baek, much
thickness and was set on the best of legs. He had
a rather plain horn and a tendency to droop a
httle at the tail, but he proved a valuable cross
on the Gallant Kinght daughters. Archer was
the sire of Christmas Lassie, champion female
at western state fairs and at the American Royal
and was sold before his value was fully realized.

With the expansion of the business, preference
was shown for the more fashionable breeding
and gradually there have been drawn into this
herd representatives of the famuihes held in
highest favor by the breeders on both sides of
the Atlantic, until at the present time the com-
bined herd of Tomson Bros. which munhbers nor-
mally 200 head, represents these tribes exclu-
sively,

Probably no sive up to that time proved amore
valuable acquisition than Barmpton Kinght. He
was an intensely bred Cruickshank bull by Sear-
let Knight, a widely known son of Craven
Knight. Barmpton Knight was bred by KE. S.
Myers, now living near Chanute. Attention was
attracted to him while in the hands of his former
owner, HK. D. Ludwig, Sabetha, Kansas, where
his calves showed remarkable uniformity though
from dams of all types. Tle was secured and for
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five years did exceptional service, siting Many
high-class show aulnals and ranking with Gal-
lant Knight as a sire of outstanding females. A
number of his daughters are rated among the
most valuable individuals and producers im the
Tomson herd today. Barmpton Knight was a
rich red of wonderful feeding propensity. His
coat and flesh covering were like that of imp.
Thistletop.

One of the best known of Barmpton Knight’s
eet was New Year’s Deheht, the heifer that as
a jumor vearling won the grand championship
all along the western show circuit and at the
Aiterican Royal and was made junior champion
at the International. This wonderful heifer was
sold to Thomas Johnson and in his herd pro-
duced a calf good cnough to win high honors in
the steer class a few years later. New Year’s De-
light was out of Forest Daisy 2d, one of three
sisters by Norfolk, that had been bought of B.
QO. Cowan by T. P. Babst and had been trans-
ferred to Tomson & Sons along with the Babst
herd of 100 head, in 1907. Another daughter of
Forest Daisy 2d bred to Barinpton Kinght pro-
duced Daisy Queen, chanpion winner on the
western state fair cirewit in L911. This heifer was
sold into Idaho where she became the dam of the
Portland champion steers for four years. It was
a granadaughter of Forest Daisy 2d, Daisy May
by Lord Mayor, that bred to Barmpton Knight
 

 

 

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VILLAGE
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produced May Daisy 3d, the dam of May Daisy
6th. May Daisy 6th was a prize winner at the
American Royal in 1919 and one of the tops in
the Royal sale. Forest Daisy 2d and her immedi-
ate family crossed with Barmpton Knight pro-
duced many excellent animals. It was from
Tomson bred Barmpton Knight cows that the
Kansas State Agricultural College bred a num-
ber of its prize winning steers.

Several of Barmpton Knight’s get were used
in the herd, one of which was Crusader, an out-
standing roan. In 1913 Maxwalton Rosedale
came to the farm with the Pringle herd. This
bull had the prestige of his sire, Avondale, and of
his dam, imp. Rosewood Pride, one of the best
of all the Carpenter & Ross cows. She was the
dam of Whitehall Rosedale by Avondale and of
Pride of Albion by imp. Shenstone Albino, both
American Royal grand champions. Maxwalton
Rosedale gave satisfactory service for several
years.

To succeed Barmpton Knight the champion
futurity calf, Village Marshal by the great sire,
Cumberland Marshall, was secured and is now
one of the chief stock bulls and rated one of the
outstanding sires of the breed at the present
time. He combines in his top crosses the blood
of Whitehall Sultan, Cumberland’s Last, Vil-
lager, Bapton Diamond and Silver Plate. He is
white, of unusual compactness and has the
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romnarkable quarters that characterized Gallant
Kaieght. THe carries a heavy, smooth flesh cover-
ing, level top, and possesses rare breed character.
His calves have never failed to attract favorable
attention. While very little showing is done now
by Tomson Bros. the get of Village Marshal have
made an Hnpressive showing whenever exhibited.
His calves as a rule are beautiful roans and pos-
sess a uniformity wad conformation that meets
the favor of the most critical judges. One of his
sons out of a dam by Barmpton Knight is beme
retained for service, Marshal’s Crown, a bull of
very remarkable depth of middle, thickness and
fullness of quarters. fis head approaches the
ideal. He is one of the great young bulls of his
time. He descends from imp. Marigold bred by
the late W. 8S. Marr of Scotland. Another great
bull which at this writing is im service is Beaver
Creek Sultan, also a white by Sultan, a son of
Whitehall Sultan. The dam of Beaver’ Creck
Sultan was inp. Victoria Mary, one of the ereat-
est cows brought to america in recent years.
Beaver Creck Sultan is a wonderful flesh car-
rer, a natural feeder, possessing ample seale and
hone. He isa very prepotent sire,

The herd as composed represents the blood of
practically all of the leading sires of the present
day. The various tribes, as the Shorthorn folks
are in the habit of designating the maternal an-
cestry, represent the Augusta, Marigold, Roan
 

 

MARSHAL’S CROWN
The Leading Prize Winner in This Territory
O56 A HUINPORY OF STTORTILORNS IN KANSAS

Lad, Jit, Lavender, Vietoria, Duchess of Glos-
fer, Orange Blossom, Mayflower, Clara, Violet,
Spicy, Gwendoline, Simplicity, and others of
similar merit and popularity. But it is always
the individuality that has clanmed first consider-
ation of Tomson Bros.

The farm aeres have grown from a modest be-
ginning fo approximately 1300 acres and the
plans contemplate a continuance along the estab-
ished Hines through the junior members, a later
veneration, who are still on the youthful side of
twenty years.

The present metibers of the firm are John R.
Tomson, Dover, for many years a director of the
American Shorthorn Breeders Association,
serving two terms as president of the associa-
tion; James G. Tomson, Carbondale, both being
vencrally known as skilled judges and called to
offierate in such capacity im many parts of this
eountry and Canada and Frank D. Tomson,
Lincoln, Nebraska, editor ‘The Shorthorn in
Ainerica’? the official organ of the American
Shorthorn Breeders Association. Te was for-
merly ammember of The Breeder’s Gazette staff
fora mnmimber of years.

H. T. Forbes, Topeka.—Mr. and Mis. Forbes
are both mueh imiterested in their Shorthorns.
They have an clegant farm four miles west of
Topeka and they have an elegant herd of cattle

onthe farm. The herd represents eighteen years
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of selection and care and a good foundation to
start with. The cows are laree, at least there are
none that mele toward being small. Thev
are kept in thrifty condition and the young stock
is kept growing all the time. Sales have been
good, too good in fact, for the herd in numbers
is below what it should be and what it is intended
it shall be in the future.

Of the twenty-five females on the farm I did
not see one that needed to be enlled out. Sweet
Orange 3d was bred on the farm, She is a roan
by Model Gloster and is out of a granddaughter
of inp. Master of the Rolls, sire of much excel-
lent stock, tucliding Master of the Grove, Liter
national grand champion. Golden Dale, another
roan, is by Maxwalton Rosedale, own brother to
Whitehall Rosedale, American Royal grand
champion and out of imp. Rosewood Pride, dam
of Pride of Albion, another American Royal
erand champion. The dam of Golden Dale came
from the Davidsons in Canada. Cassandria
Beauty came from H. H. Kupper and is by imp.
Scottish Sentinel, a bull of wide reputation in
Nebraska. Her dam was by imp. Strowan Star.
Orange Baron, the herd bull recently acquired,
has a three-vear-old daughter on the farm out of
adam by G loster’s Choice b ry Marengo’s Choice.
I do not know that it was because of this heifer’s
excellence that Ma. Forbes wanted her sire but it
is a safe guess that were she not good, he would
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not have bought her sire. T have given an idea
of the females in the herd both as individuals
and from the pedigree viewpoint. Before leav-
Ing them T wish to add that this herd of cows
looked and acted like good producers. The shy
breeder and apparently barren animals were not
In evidence and the calves looked like they had
milk.

Royal Violet was one of the early bulls. He
was by Prime Minister that was by imp. Prince
of Perth and out of Goldfinch, own sister to the
International grand champion Lavender Vis-
count. The dain of Royal Violet was by Golden
Prince, a Dryden bred son of Prince Gloster, sire
of the 410000 Prince Imperial. A son of Royal
Violet, Orange Master out of Sweet Orange, was
also used some. Master Barmpton came from
Tomsons and was by Barmpton Knight.

I always feel a special degree of enthusiasm
when I write of Barmpton Kinght for from this
ereat sire came a whole family of Shorthorns
that were the real kind to make the cattle grower
rich. Master Barmpton’s dam was by Lord
Mayor, one of the greatest bulls of the West, that
advertised TV. P. Babst & Sons as only an out-
standing buli can do. Model Gloster was by
Choice Goods Model, son of the champion, Choice
Goods, and Rosedale Violet 9th, the famous Tebo
Lawn matron that had to her credit more high
priced calves than any other cow of her day. She
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was the dam of Leonard’s Rosedale’s Choice, of
Gentry’s Choice of All, of Hall’s Choice Goods
Model and of Runaway Girl, dam of Bellows
Bros.’ Best of Goods, besides six excellent lesser

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORANGE BARON
Used hy Tomson Bros. and Sold by Them to Mr. Forbes

lights of the Shorthorn universe. The dam of
Model Gloster was Glenfoyle Duchess of Gloster
2d by Scotch Fame 151799. Royal Monarch was
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by Harriman Bros.’ Proud Monarch, a son of
New Goods, the Choice Goods Collynie bull that
headed their herd at the time of its dispersion.

Reeently a new bull-was bought. He is Orange
Baron, cut on a very generous scale, yet close
to the ground, with a deep, thick body. He has
plenty of spread but covers smoothly. Tis head
and neck are fine. He is by Orange Model by
Vietorious and his dam is also by Victorious,
famous son of Lord Mayor out of a daughter of
imp. Baron Victor.

H.H.Holmes,Topeka.*—Mr. Holmes has been
well known in Kansas Shorthorn circles for ten
years. He lived at Great Bend until 1918 when
he bought and moved to the much advertised
Aylsdale Farm five miles southwest of Topeka.
Ife keeps his herd within the prescribed hne of
universal approval so far as pedigree 1s con-
ecened, When he suits a prospective purchaser
ona aninal he wants to know before the deal is
closed that the pedigree will suit. Most of the
herd descends from purchases made from W. A.
Betteridge and other selections come from equal-
ly cautions and discriminating breeders.

The Holmes herd consists largely of Cruick-
shank Orange Blossoms with a few Queen of
Beautys and other good families. Rose Vietor-
lous is by Vietorious, known the country over as
a ereat bull and some consider him the best son

Rural Route 2s,
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A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 991

of Lord Mayor. He went from Linwood to N. H.
Gentry as a youngster and after serving there for
ten or twelve years he worked for Mr. Betteridge
until he died. His dam was by imp. Baron Victor,
the outstanding Cruickshank bull of America.
The dam of Rose Victorious caine from Russell’s
Canadian herd and it will be of interest to
know that her dam was by Stanley, the noted sire
ot prize winners at the Columbian Exposition.
Emma 8. is a roan Kansas bred daughter of
Searchheht, grand champion of several state
fairs, a winner at the American Royal and sire of
the cow that topped Park E. Salter’s sensational
female sale at $8500. The dam of Emma 8. is
Lady Emina by Ingle Lad, a Kansas bred bull
now winning fame through his great producing
daughters. Emma 8S. is the dam of the grand
champion, Lady Supreme, and this prize win-
ning heifer was calved on My. Holines’ farm and
developed by him. Her dam and an own sister
to Lady Supreme are now in his breeding herd.
Honor Maid is another roan by Searchlight.
Her dam, Maid of Honor, came from George
Bothwell’s great prize winning herd and was by
Grand Victor out of imp. Winifred 4th. Hall-
wood Golden Drop 5th was bought at the Ed Hall
dispersion sale as a calf and she locked like the
best calf in the herd. Her sire, Village Flash,
by the great Villager sold in the sale to J. R.
Evans & Bros. for more than $2000 and her dain
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was by Choice Goods Model, the $1500 prize win-
ning son of the champion Choice Goods and
Rosedale Violet 9th, the leading Ameriean pro-
ducing cow. The reader will bear in mind that
these prices were obtained in the cheap times.

Riverside Queen, a six-year-old red by Clipper
Model, is out of Crestmead Beauty 2d by Orange
Model, the bull used much and suecessfully by
Mr. Betteridge and sired by Victorious. (See
above. )

Only brief mention can be given the bulls of
the past. New Echo 360066, after being used
some, was sold to Miss M. V. Stanley who later
sold him to Bennington Bros. (See Bennington
sketch.) Clipper Model, before mentioned, and
Clipper Brawith 444189, a son of Clipper Model
were representative of the Betteridge breeding.
Prince Valentine 4th, a bull that did much for
the herd and sired only first-class stock, was by
Prince Pavonia, Mr. Nevius’ great son of imp.
Glendale Pavonia. He was a show bull and until
three years old was kept in show condition. He
also did good service for Tomson Bros. It is
certain that Mr. Holnes let him go before he
fully realized his value.

nunberland Champion is now in serviee. He
is a $ZO00 son of imp. Newton Champion 650-
059 whose first crop of bull calves it is said
averaged $3500. His dam is by Cumberland
Marshall, a bull that in Mr. MeDermott’s herd
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not only made the herd but also its owner famous.
The other bull is Count Valentine 4th. A full
brother to this bull was a prize winner at the big
shows aud a high seller a year ago. I saw this
bull in July 1919. The man who wants a hard
job might try to seriously fault him.

My. Holnes is popular with the breeders of the
state and is a inodel to others in the attention he
gives to his correspondence. He has at all times
the invaluable assistance of his daughter, Miss
Helen, and to her he gives meh credit for what-
ever sucecoss he has achieved with Shorthorns.

F. C. Kingsley, Auburn.—Mr. Kingsley has
been raising Shorthorns for nearly thirty years
and has been a heavy producer from few pur-
chases. He first bought three cows from T. P.
Babst, two of them by nnp. Thistletop. Some
years later he bought two of Andrew Pringle.
These five cows carried the lines of breeding for
which the Babst and the Pringle herds were
noted. The Pringle heifers especially were
nicely descended and both were bred to Maxwal-
ton Rosedale from which service each produced
a heifer calf. Bulls of good breeding have been
used in this herd and many of the cows show real
Shorthorn character.

Among the first bulls in service was Red Laird
from the Babst herd sired by Laird of Linwood,
a bull bred almost the same as Gallant Knight.
Golden Dawn came from Pringles and he was
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hy Golden Prince by Prince Gloster, sire of the
#10000 Prince Dnperial. The dam of Golden
Dawn was by The Baron, a bull used by T. J.
Wallace. He was by Baron Sussex, dam by
inp. Burgomaster. Tom Thornton eame from
Gen. McAfee and was by Earl of Gloster, an ex-
ecedingly well finished son of imp. Double Glos-
ter. Maxwalton Rosedale was the sire of the
next bull and he bore the name of Dodd Gaston,
probably out of loeal pride.

It would hardly be interesting to mention all
the bulls used during the thirty years. Those
listed will represent the rest but one other must
not be overlooked. Twentieth Earl of Valley
Grove by Lord Mayor, a bull with a reputation
in Wilson county later, was bought of T. P.
Babst as a calf. Te was used in the herd for
four years, then sold to Senator Benedict where
he sired much excellent stock, especially breed-
ing cows. Phe bull in use at present is Big Ben
707309, His sire, Kansas Collynie, is by Mistle-
toe Archer, whose dam, Sweet Mistletoe, is also
the dam of Lespedeza Collyiiec, International
grand champion in 1919. 1
the blood of Ingle Lad, sire of the dam of Lady
Supreme, American Royal grand champion im
1919.

H. H. Churchill, Topeka.—Mr. Churchill is a
mat who never does a thing by halves. His herd
is not vet large but he is building in a judicious

sig Ben also carries
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manner and, being a good feeder, he will be suc-
cessful. The herd includes a few elegant young
cows by Marquis Cumberland, son of Cumber-
land’s Best, sire of the sensational Cumberland’s
Type. (See Willis Cohnan sketch.) An attrac
tive and finely bred voung cow is Juanita, bred
by E. 8. Myers. Her sire combines the blood
of three well known bulls, imp. Collynie, inp.
Lord Cowslip and Dunean’s Headheht. Her
dam is by Choice Prince by Prince of Tebo
Lawn and her second dam is by the MeDermott
bred Morning Star. Leaw Juanita with a prom-
ising heifer calf at foot and consider her a
valuable voung cow. At the Salter sale in 1919
Mr. Churchill bought Lavender Lassie by Gold-
en Gloster, a voung cow of choicest breeding. It
is the intention to make further additions of
eood females,

At Kelly Bros.’ sale in June 1919 Emblem’s
Dale, probably the best bull in the sale, went to
Mix. Churchill. He is a roan, good sized, close
to the ground, with deep, thick body, well cov-
ered, and good head and neck. Emblem’s Dale is
not deserving any serious eriticism and he
should make a satisfactory sire. He is by imp.
Proud Emblem Jv. and his dam is by a son of
Avondale, second dam by a son of Choice Goods.

Mr. Churchill is one of the men who will go
out of the way to help push any interest with
which he is identified.
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SMITH COUNTY

Springbrook Stock Farm, Lebanon.—T. M.
Willson is owner and K. M. Davison is manager
of Springbrook Stock Farin, a leading Polled
Shorthorn establishment of the state. It is the
intention to breed only Polled cattle on this
farm. Thirty females of breeding age are now
in the herd among which are some outstanding
ones. The young stock is well fed, the object
beige to get as much size as possible without imn-
jurious foreing. Alfalfa and ensilage with grain
for the young stock and the excellent native
erass pastures of that section make the produe-
tion of good cattle easy. Consignments have
heen made to breeders sales, including that at
Omaha in 1919, and arrangements are now being
made to put out a show herd,

The foundation cows have been secured from
the leading Polled herds of the country and were
of the best lines of breeding to be obtained. De-
sirable bulls, both in type and in breeding, have
been consistently used with the result that always
Follows such course of action. The two bulls now
used are Baronet 516167 and Cumberland Sultan
795793. Baronet came from the Walker herd in
Nebraska. He is strong in the blood of Roan
ITero, one of the noted bulls of the breed. Cum-
berland Sultan is a two-year-old from Achen-
hach Bros. Ona choice Crimekshank foundation
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conune from Tebo Lawn he descends through an
elegant line of bulls. His sire and grandsire,
Inperial Sultan and Tutense Sultan, both bred
by J. Hf. Miller, were ainong the best bulls of the
breed.

SUMNER COUNTY

E. L. Stunkel, Peck.—Ever since E. L. Stun-
kel was a small boy his life has been associated
with Shorthorns. Those who have read the
sketch of his father and especially those who
knew Henry Stunkel will understand that a boy
raised with an old cattleman such as he was
would take up the business and follow it success-
fully. Ed Stunkel is breeding Shorthorus be-
cause he would feel lost without them. At the
tune the big Stunkel herd was dispersed he
owned a munber of cows and, taking advan-
tage of his intiunate knowledge of the animals in
the sale and the rather low prices which pre-
vailed, he bought some of the most desirable fe-
males sold. These were all daughters or gvand-
daughters of Victor Orange, a bull that, had he
been given a chance, would have proved one of
the best sires in the entire Southwest.

A number of the cows were by Star Goods out
of Vietor Orange dams. Star Goods was own
brother to Bellows Bros.’ show and breeding bull,
Diamond Goods. The Stunkel herd as now con-
stituted descends mainly from cows purchased
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by Henry Stunkel from Jos. Duncan of Missouri
and is largely the result of the use of four good
bulls. Some of the cows are bred within the
so-called Scotch lines while others are not, but
all are from excelent ancestry aud of the choicest
breeding.

The four bulls referred to, named in the order
used, are Knight of Meadow Farn 3d, Victor
Orange, Star Goods and Cumberland Diamond.
Knight of Meadow Farm 3d was a Forbes-W. A.
Harris product, lus sire, Baron Golddust 3d,
having been by Baron Gloster and his dam by
Lord of Linwood, a sen of imp. Baron Victor
out of imp. Lady of the Meadow, a cow later
destined to become famous as the dam of Lord
Mayor. The cows by Kimght of Meadow Farm
3d developed into exceptional breeders. Victor
Orange was a bull that left the rather unusual
record of having sived extra good breeding bulls
and extra good producing cows. These cows
were not generally of show vard type but every
one I have seen was a big, rugged, straight lined,
good bodied cow with feminine head and neek.
They all produce strong, lusty calves and it be-
came a recommendation for size and quality for
any calf to have a Victor Orange dam. Victor
Orange came by his ability to sire such cattle,
honestly. His sive was by Victorious and his
dam by Scarlet Kanight, two of the best bulls of
their day and both sires of outstanding merit.
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Star Goods was a Bellows Bros. production.
Lis sire was Good Choice by Choice Goods out of
Silene 2d by a son of imp. Burgomaster. His
dain was by Victorallau, a sire of many of the
breeding cows in the Bellows herd. He was a
bull of inore finish than Victor Orange and his
daughters were perhaps more pleasing in ap-
pearance than were the Victor Orange cows, but
the general opinion of old breeders seems to
favor the Victor Orange cows. The Star Goods
cows out of Victor Orange dams have, however,
proved good producers and would be valuable
breeding cows in any herd.

Cumberland Diamond, the last of the quartette
of bulls that have made this herd, is a massive
white. Bred to the herd of nearly all red cows
he has almost invariably sired meely colored
roan calves. His heifers are especially pleasing.
They are very feminine in appearance, are of
eood size, straight led, and look lke real breed-
ing prospects and a man starting out with a lot
of Cumberland Diamond heifers backed by
Star Goods, Victor Orange and Knight of Mead-
ow Farin 3d on the dam’s side would have some-
thine of which to be proud. Cumberland Dia-
mond is by Cumberland Chief, a son of Cumber-
land’s Last out of Hampton’s Lovely by Hamp-
ron’s Best. His dam is also by Cumberland Chief.
His second dam is by Banker’s Victor, one of the
best breeding bulls ever used in C. C. Norton’s
 

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herd aud the next dam is the Crombie bred imp.
Diamond 31st. Such a wealth of ancestry should
make any bull a good sire and Cumberland Dia-
mond is cnly transinitting what he has received
from his sire and dai.

To use on the Cumberland Diamond heifers
Mr. Stunkel has secured Villager’s Champion, a
short-legged, thick roan that stood third im class
at the American Roval, fifth at the International
in 1919 and second at Wichita in 1921. He is
probably the best bull used in the herd since Vic-
tov Orange avd combines some of the most desir-
able aneestiy known to Shorthorn history. His
sire is Village Perfection, a son of unp. Villager.
His dam is by Lord Champion, the famous son of
imp. Lady Douglas used with much success by
Purdy Bros.

Meuser & Co., Anson.*—Sixteen years ago
Wi. aud Chas. Meuser bought a Shorthorn cow
and two vears Jater they bought four heifers.
They had extreme bull luck for several vears and
increase was slow but during this time the sale
of bulls paid well for keeping the herd. As the
later purchases of females were balanced by fe-
males sold we may fairly say that the present
herd of nearly 100 cows and heifers comes from
the sinall outlay made fourteen years ago. Pedi-
erce was considered, but not until after the ani-
mal had been selected on account of its real merit

 

Telephone, Comway or Riverdale.
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and qualification for handling the ordinary farm
feed and turning it into salable commodity at the
mnaxinnun of profit.

This system has been applied to animals for
retention in the herd and the Meuser Shorthorns
hold their place on the farm only while they
pay. No nurse cows are needed here because
forcing is not practiced but more especially be-
cause a poor milking cow is worth more for beef
than for a breeder. Mature cows are of good
size, 1200 to 1400 pounds being demanded of
them in breeding condition. Asa result of avoid-
ing either extreme in feeding Mr. Wm. Meuser
states they have had no complaints from any of
their numerous bull customers in all these years.
There is an object lesson here for farmers who
care to use ordinary business sense in substitut-
ing pure breds for grades or serubs.

The bulls, as in all other herds, have furnished
the clue to the success of the owners. Pride of
Orange and Lovel Goods both came from Henry
Stunkel. The first was by Star Goods and sus-
tained the reputation of his sire. The second
was by Star Goods out of a dam by the excellent
son of St. Valentine, Lord Lovel. Two rather
extra good bulls are being used. Sycamore
Chunk is a big son of Mistletoe Archer, one of
the sons of Sweet Mistletoe, the dam of the 1919
erand champion. His dam is Snow Seeret 2d, a
cow that is also the dam of Miss Stanley’s Seeret
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Robin, This bull is full of the blood of the best
of the breed and it is no surprise to find he is <
successful sire. Hamlet comes from Tomson
Bros. He is a well finished son of Maxwalton
Rosedale out of a dam by Gallant Knight’s Heir,
second dam by Barmptou Knight, breeding to
satisfy any one.

The culy attempt made at showing was at the
1918 and 1919 kansas National at Wichita when
the Meuser entries demoustrated their worth by
winning thirteen ribbons, the bull Hamlet, then a
senor vearling, winning third place in open
class and the Kansas-Oklahoma Special. The
real snecess which the Meusers have attained is
within reach of any progressive farmer.

H. O. Peck & Son, Wellington.—Ten years ago
Ji. O. Peck & Sen bought several cows at the J.
F. Stoddey dispersion and a few more of local
breeders. The selections were wisely made and
from these cows they have built up a useful herd.
The cows range from medium to large and
are, generally speaking, of good quality, of nice
straight lines, with fine heads and necks. They
are the type of cows that prove good breeders and
sucklers and can be depended wpon to show a
profit. The cows bought were of desirable an-
ceestry and blood lines. tn some eases they were
exceptional and the use of the right kind of bulls
has made the herd what it is.

It was at Mr. Peck’s that I saw one of the
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hopeful signs, uot only for the future of the
breed, but also as indicating what the breeder of
the future must do if he expects to maintain his
prestige against competition. It was a lot of
pure bred steers from cight to eleven months old
and only one appeared unfit for a fairly good
bull. Two whites were especially attractive and
one of them was almost an ideal of the true
money making Shorthorn type. This indicates
that the Pecks have a high standard for the bulls
they sell and sets an example for breeders in gen-
eral. This Jot of steers, as well as some elegant
heifers, were by the present herd bull, Master
Marshal.

There is little need of going into detail as to
the breeding of the cows since the bulls used in
the top crosses indicate it. These came from
such herds as those of Henry Stunkel, C. B.
Dustin, Williams Bros., T. P. Babst, J. F. Stod-
der, S. C. Hanna, J. G. Robbins & Son, N. H.
Gentry and H. ©, Lookabaugh, all herds of na-
tional reputation and unexcelled as sources of
supply for bulls. Two worthy bulls used by the
Pecks were Banff Boy and Buttertly Kine.
Bantf Boy was by Cherry Grove Bantt 49th, a
son of inp. Lord Bantf out of a Choice Goods
cow. Butterfly King came from J. F. Stodder.
His sive was Silvermine and lis dam was by
Captain Archer, two crosses not easily surpassed.

The bull in use, Master Marshal, second prize
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winner 1919 Kansas National, is a white of most
pleasing form. I feel sure IT could say nothing
move of this bull than is richly deserved, for he
isa typical Shorthorn of the highest class. From
head to tail, and from his back to the ground, he
is not open to any serious eriticism. He has
plenty of size and what is best of all, his calves,
although a little young to be used as a positive
basis of judgment, are altogether promising.

The disposition of this firm is to produce an
outstanding herd and they have the enthusiasm,
as well as the facilities, to carry out their inten-
tions.

Just as we go to press we jearn that H. O. Peck
& Son have bought a Bellows bred son of the
International grand champion Village Supreme
to follow Master Marshal.

Thos. Murphy & Sons, Corbin.—This is one of
the well known Shorthorn breeding firms of the
county. The foundation stock came from such
herds as those of Henry Stunkel and Marshall
Bros. and the ce were from equally reputable
sources. One of the Marshall bred cows was by
Scottish ce ason of imp. Lord Cowslip out
of My. Hanna’s Red Queen by imp. Scotchman.
The Stunkel bred cows were either by Victor
Orange or they were well filled with the good
Stunkel breeding.

One of the early herd bulls came from T. J.
Wornall & Sons. He was by Silver Consul by a
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son of imp. Consuelo 2d, out of a daughter of
mip. Magenta. Phe bull used longest and the
one that had the most beneficial effect on the
herd was Orange Goods 370667. Tle was a
handsome, finely Timished red bred by HH. t.
mtunkel Tle was by Star Goods, the popular
Stunkel sire, a son of Good Choiee and own
brother to the champion, Diamond Goods. THis
dai was a danehter of Vietor Orange, regarded
allover southern Kansas as one of the best breed-
me bulls of his day. That Orange Goods, com-
binine as he did the blood of the noted sires, be-
came an outstanding breeding bull is not sure
prising. The Murphy herd is largely of the
same blood lines as the Stunkel herd.

A. M. Reece, Oxford.—T'lhis herd of twenty Fe-
males was established in 1912 by the purchase of
two heifers in ealf to Silvermine, the well known
bull used by J. F. Stodder and later by Marshall
Bros. The cows are of good type and good
size. Among the exeellent Females of the herd
is Quintella by Silvermine, dame by Captain
Archer. This should disure size and quality as
well as good production. Silver and Silverine,
both reds, are by Royal Archer 2d, a son of Aber-
deen, practically a full brother to TInele Lad.
Royal Archer’s dam was Syringia, one of the
best cows of her day tn Kansas. Silverstde is a
six-year-old roan daughter of Silvermine out of
Silverimne, mentioned above.
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The two bulls prominent in this herd are Sil-
verluine and Captain Archer bred directly from
the best importation of Duthie and Marr bred
Shorthorns. Other bulls used were Marshall’s
Best by a Hanna bred son of imp. Lord Cowslip ;
Silver Heel by Silvermine and Diamond Major,
present herd bull, by Cumberland Diamond.
The dam of Diamond Major represents the
Stunkel Star Goods and Victor Orange crosses.
The lines of sires and dams below this come from
the most noted breeders of their day and the bull
is worthy of his ancestry.

Mr. Reeee has shown locally with fine sue-
cess and is a contributor to the Sumner county
breeders sales.

L. E. Wooderson, Caldwell.—Mr. Wooderson
is among the best known breeders in this terri-
torv. His herd which consists of twenty smooth
females has not been so well developed in size as
the best interests of the establishment may have
demanded but facilities for handhne the stock
have been unproved and the younger aninals
have been well grown out. The cows are nearly
all bred along very popular lines and only choice-
ly bred bulls have been used so that the Wooder-
son cattle usually find no objectors on account of
pedigree.

Golden Gloster was bred by F. M. Hackler. He
was a son of imp. Daydreams Pride, the sire of
numerous herd bulls used in eastern Kansas
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and western Missour Golden Gloster’s dam
was by Lord Thistle, an excellent Mastin bred
son of Baron Ury and Rose of the Thistle 2d.
Supreme Goods was by Star Goods (see Stunkel
sketch) out of Supreme, one of the daughters of
Glendon, that was bought by Henry Stunkel
from Jos. Dunean. Gloster Cumberland is a
roan son of Cumberland’s Best, son of the great
show bull and sire, Cumberland’s Last and sire
of the sensational prize winner Cumberland’s
Type. The dam of Gloster Cumberland was 77th
Duchess of Gloster by See A Cumberland, an-
other son of Cumberland’s Last, giving him a
concentration of the blood that has made Mr.
Saunders’ herd one of the most famous im
America.

Otto B. Wenrich, Oxford.—The first pur-
chases for this herd were made three years ago.
Piineess Phyllis came from ©. 8. Nevius and is
by that splendid sive, Prince Pavomia, out of a
dam by Gallant Knight followed by Norfolk and
np. Scottish Lord, a succession of four great
bulls. Silverside is a daughter of Silvermine, a
noted bull in the herds of J. F. Stodder and Mar-
shall Bros. [ler dam is by a son of the outstand-
ing cow, Syringia by Royal Knight. Valley Daisy
Sth comes from KH. L. Stunkel through the fine
Star Goods-Vietor Orange line. A son of
Matchless Dale, sire of International prize win-
ners at the Kansas State Agricultural College,
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has been used. Vietoria’s Emblem, an outstand-
ing son of imp. British Emblem, is now in ser-
vice,

George D. Vaughn, Wellington.—This herd of
fifteen females has some animals that attract at-
tention. Silver Heiress is a six-year-old white
by Rosewood Dale, the #3000 son of Avondale
that made his reputation in the herds of Park E.
Salter and John B. Potter. A number of other
cows of nice breeding are also found here. The
bull used until recently was Dale’s Signet by
Dale Clarion, a bull whose get are now winning
high honers at the biggest shows. The dam of
Dale’s Signet was from H. G. Carson’s herd and
was by Malaka Banff. The present herd bull is
a white by Symphony’s Last, a son of Sym-
phony’s Best, the sire of the exeelent cows in
the (, A. Scholz herd.

THOMAS COUNTY

A. H. Arneal, Colby.—This herd of twenty-
five females is composed of choice selections
from the L. M. Noffsinger herd. The beginning
was made in 1917 and four of the best things on
the farm are by Fancy Lord, a splendid sire from
Tomson Bros. Mr. Arneal also has a number of
heifers by Pleasant Dale Sultan, an American
Royal prize winner that combines the blood of
imp. Shenstone Albino, Avondale and Whitehall
Sultan and breeds true to ancestry. The good
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young bull, Secret Dale, is the sire in use. Mr.
Arneal is in the part of Kansas where Short-
horus are not numerous and he will be able to
present an object lesson to the people of his
community,

WABAUNSEE COUNTY

S. D. Mitchell, Allen.*—This is largely a story
of Col. Carvel, a bull whose monument of great-
ness as seen in 8. D. Mitchell’s cows is so im-
pressive that the visitor, if he be a student of
Shorthorn history and an admirer of really good
cattle, will take off his hat to Mr. Mitchell, the
first man I have found in Kansas, who with ex-
ceptional judgment, displayed the backbone of
Amos Cruickshank.

Going back to the story of Thomas, Jameison
& Mitehell, the reader will note that Mr. Mitchell
owned a herd individually at the time of the dis-
persion. In the former herd were two good sized,
thick fleshed, smooth, straight lined, red cows.
They were by the great show and breeding bull,
Barrister. Bred to White Goods, they produced
a pair of roan bull calves. Mr. Mitchell did not
say when he became convineed of the faet that
these were remarkable calves, but when Andrew
Pringle, that execllent breeder, came buying
bulls he priced him his choice at #200 with the
statement that he would keep the other for his

Present address, Lexington, Wentuceky, Rural Route 2.
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own use. Ife did keep him and under the name
of Col. Carvel he was taken from the pasture and
without fitting he won third place in a strong
class at the American Royal. I had the pleasure
of seeing this bull as a long two-year-old and
thought him one of the best individuals T had
ever seen.

The Mitchell herd consists of twelve cows of
outstanding execllence. Six of these are by
Col. Carvel, four are out of his daughters, and
one is by White Goods, his sive. It is doubtful
if in any other herd in this state can be found the
same number of cows by one bull or out of his
daughters that are equal in size, clegant appear-
ance, smoothness, fleshing qualty, milking ca-
pacity and as breeders, to this lot of cows.

As I saw these cows in the pasture in 1919, all
except one suckling calves by Jealous Renown
498758, I could not help thinking what a pity it
was that so many breeders allow their commer-
cial instinets to seriously interfere with their
suecess as real breeders. Myr. Mitchell did not do
this and he has the results of his devotion to high
Shorthorn standards shown in these cows. Becky
Barrister 8th, the only daughter of White Goods
left in the herd, is thirteen years old and is suck-
ling an elegant heifer calf. If this calf fulfills
its promise, some one will have to take notice
later. Baron Hampton, a Dustin bred Merry
Hampten-Baron Cruickshank combination, is
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the sive of several of the cows out of Barrister,
White Goods and Col. Carvel cows. When we
think of imp. Merry Hampton and imp. Baron
Cruickshank as two of the best bulls ever im-
ported from Seotland, of White Goods as one of
the ereatest sons of Choice Goods and of Col.
Carvelas a Shorthorn wonder, we can eect an idea
of the ancestry. Back of all this is Barrister,
winner of 247 first prizes at leading shows, and
imp. Craven Knight his sire, frequently referred
to as the most beautiful and perfect bull of his
day. As to the herd bull, Jealous Renown is
three years old. His sire is Maxwalton Renown,
one of the truly good sons of Avondale. Jealous
Yenown is out of a dam by Avondale, second dam
by Whitehall Sultan, third dam by Count Arthur
and fourth dam by Star of Morning. If there is
anything in being closely descended in every re-
move from the world’s greatest Shorthorns, Jeal-
ous Renown will be a great sire. Tf judement
may be passed on the appeavanee of eleven ealves
from ten days to four months old, he is a great
sire,

Whatever others may think of Mr. Mitchell’s
course, It seems tome he has achieved a triumph
in constructive breeding not attained by any
one else of whom Lb have knowledge for,
breaking away from all accepted regulations, he
mated cows of most admirable breeding with a
bull of pre-eminent imerit, and has reaped
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results fully up to any possible anticipations.

The article above was written in June 1919.
Since that time Mr. Mitchell has closed out his
Kansas holdings and he and Mrs. Mitchell are
living in the choicest section of Old Kentucky,
their ancestral home. These elegant Kansas bred
Shorthorns are on a fine farm near Lexington
where they will do their share toward restoring
Kentucky to the pinnacle of Shorthorn glory it
occupied prior to 1880.

George J. Appleton & Son, Maple Hill.—This
herd dates from 1895 aud numbers thirty-five
females. The original purchase was from L. A.
Knapp, followed by selections from the herds of
Andrew Pringle, Tomson Bros. and Babst Bros.
One of the Pringle cows was by Sir Knight by
Col. Harris’ Golden Knight and out of imp.
Sorrel by Roan Gauntlet. Another Pringle bred
cow is Kalona by Prime Minister, a son of
Iinp. Prince of Perth outof an own sister
to the champion, Lavender Viscount. Roan
Buttertly is a good cow by Modern Seoteh-
man, a son of imp. Magenta. Her dam is
by a son of Golden Victor Jr. and out of a Lord
Mayor dam. Lavender Choice was recently
bought of Tomson Bros. Her sire is Ingle Lad,
a sou of imp. Collynie, that is regarded highly,
especially in southeast Kansas. Her dam is
Lavender of Calstock Farin by the champion,
Choice Goods, tollowed down the line by the
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choicest Cruiekshank breeding. A six-year-old
red, Woodbine Lovely, is another purchase frou
Tomsons. Fler sire is Lavender Prince 6th 384-
$o2 and her dam is by Pleasant Hill Master,
somof the International erand champion, Master
of the Grove.

Agmunber of good bulls have been used in the
herd. The first was a son of Knight Templar
141953 ont of a damn by Major Richmond 112835.
The T. P. Babst herd furnished one strong in the
blocd of Lord Mayor. Athenian Coronet 4th by
imp. Bapton Corenet was probably one of the
best of the early bulls. He had been used for a
tine by Andrew Pringle and was followed in the
Appleton herd by a son of Prime Minister (see
above) out of a daughter of Golden Prince whose
sire, Prince Gloster, was also the sire of the
#10000 Prince Imperial. Lavender Chief, now
in use, comes from Tomsons and combines the
hload of Barmpton Knight, Gallant Knight and
np. Baron Vietor, This bull is an outstanding
breeder. Victor Crown by Beaver Creek Sultan,
dam by Orange Magnet, second dam by Head-
lieht, isa new ball from Pomsons, considered by
Mr. Appleton a splendid prospect.

Babst Bros., Auburn.—The name Babst brings
up visions of a Shorthorn herd that had a wide
reputation some years ago. It was on the Babst
far that Lord Mayor ended his life after thip-
teen years of great service. When the Babst
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herd was sold to Pomsous it was the intention
and fora short time the practice to keep a Short-
horn herd as producers of market cattle but
the Babsts had been im the pure bred game too
long to be permanently satisfied with this
method, and so, quite naturally, they began sell-
ing breeding stock.

The present herd consists partly of cows bred
by A. A. Clark. Good cows from other herds
were also secured and the Babst herd now num-
bers about 100 fematies. Among additions out-
side the Clark cows was Lawnsdale Duchess 48d,
bred by Alex Fraser and sired by Falsetto. Her
dam was by Prince Royal 2d. Red Olga’s Victor
by Golden Victor Jy. out of Red Olga by Scottish
Emperor was from one of H. M. Hill’s best fam-
ilies of cows. An especially attractive, young
cow 1s the Tomson bred Lady Marshal by Vil-
lage Marshal out of a dam by Lord Mayor, sec-
ond dain by Vanquish, a well known Harris bred
son of Galahad. There is also in the herd one by
Beaver Creek Sultan out of the same dam and
these two heifers are giving Babst Bros. the
saine class of females as the best of their herd at
the time of its sale to Tomsons.

he bulls in use have been good ones. Aveher’s
Victor was by Archer, the son of ip. Collynie
and imp. Circe 6d and out of Elderlawn Victoria
by Galant Knight. Ingleside For Me, a white,
bought to change the herd from red to roan not
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only did that job well, but he proved a splendid
sive. Tie was by Rosewood, a son of Collynie and
the Duthie bred imp. Roseleat by Scottish
Areber. Prince Marigold was bred by Tomson
Bros. aud sired by Prince Valentine 4th. His
dain is by Barmpton Kanght, second dam by imp.
Crescent Knight out of imp. Marigold 146th. A
recent purchase is Victor Beaver, a Touson bred
son of Beaver Creek Sultan. He is out of a dam
by the Dunean bred Orange Magnet and is a
worthy successor to the bulls that have preceded
him.

j. A. Pringle, Eskridge.*—Mr. Pringle is a
son of Andrew Pringle and has been with
Shorthorns all jus life. His herd of twenty-five
females will be increased and improved. Roan
Lady 2d is by Captain Archer, sire of prize win-
ners at state fans, the American Royal, and the
International and an own brother to Sweet Mis-
tletoe, dam of the 1919 International grand
champion bull. Filbert is-a good cow out of the
home herd by Athenian Coronet 4th, son of imp.
Bapton Coronet and Augusta 111th by Seoteh
Pame. Her damis by Prime Minister, a bull out
oF an own sister to the International champion,
Lavender Viscount. Loraine 6th is a daughter
of Royal Violet, a son of Prime Minister (see
above) out of a daughter of Golden Prince by
Prince Gloster, sire of the $10000 0 Prince

Station and telephone, Hlarveyville.
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Jinperial. Her dai is by Sir Knight, grandson of
My. Cruickshank’s great Roan Gauntlet. This
will suffice to show the blood lines in the Prin-
ele herd.

Maxwalton Rosedale, own brother to the grand
champion, Whitehall Rosedale, originally boug it
by Andrew Pringle and sold to Tomson Bros., che
sire of much high-class stock, was used for a time
im this herd. Golden Laddie, now used, is a roan
by Maxwalton Rosedale and out of Golden Bloom
by Prime Minister, a big, smooth bull and a cap-
ital sire. There are few herds better filled than
this one, with Amos Cruickshank’s best blood.

E. L. Knapp, Maple Hill.—Fifty years ago
Mr. Knapp was born in the house in which he
now lives. His father, L. A. Knapp, a well known
breeder, had just come from Illinois bringing
some Shorthorns with him. The present herd
descends in part from these cattle brought to the
Kansas farm in 1870, aking Mr. Knapp’s one
of the oldest herds in the state. The herd is not
large, numbering only about ten cows, which are
used to raise good calves and give milk for the
family and occasionally some for market. It
goes without saying that cows kept for this pur-
pose are heavy milkers. The bull in service
comes from the Appleton herd.

C. R. Wyker, Belvue.*—Mir. Wyker is begin-
nine a herd with three good cows and a bull—a

 

Station and telephone, Paxico.
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sufficient start for any one. Two of the cows
came from St. Marys College. Through Baro:
Marr they bring in the blood of Cumberland’s
Last and imp. Lady Marr. The herd bull, a
white, is by Cumberland’s Knight 412231, which
puts the best blood of the breed among the an-
cestry into this foundation. Mr. Wyker is located
in a splendid cattle country and he has plenty of
blue grass and alfalfa. He is planning to raise
bie Shorthorus.

R. Scott Buck, Eskridge.*—Mr. Buck has
been in the Shorthorn business for twenty years
and has a herd of thirty females which are being
developed as Polled Shorthorns with special at-
tention to milking quality. The bulls used have,
in the main, come from the outstanding Polled
herds. The present herd bull is Emancipator
459969 bred by W. G. Martin and sired by Dual
Evergreen 367499.

WASHINGTON COUNTY

The Miller Stock Farms, Mahaska.—The
Miller Stock Farms, Clyde W. Miller, operator,
is an establishment equipped to produce cattle of
the highest quality as 1s seen in its three silos, its
BOO acres of alfalfa and the prize winning blood
employed in the herd foundation. The pure bred
Polled Shorthorn herd is well started and will
in tine supersede the grade herd.

Keene Central telephone.
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Amone che cows are daughters of Meadow
sultan, a sive of national reputation, whose sons
and daughters have been good winners at the big
shows. tn these pastures are also found thick
fleshed daughters of True Sultan, grand cham-
pion of the breed, and in one instance, reserve
grand champion with all breeds competing.

Select Goods x8719-353693, the 2200 pound
senlor herd bull, is an International champion
and his ect have been prominent winners at the
state fairs aud at the International. These great
bulls of strong Seoteh blood were all bred by J.
H. Miller. The junior herd bull, Sultan’s Mar-
vel, is by True Sultan. His dam is by Matchless
Dale, the ereatest sire of prize winning steers of
any bull of auy breed. Sultan’s Marvel has two
direct crosses to Whitehall Sultan, one of them
through ee ( ete

The objective is the production of a superior
herd of breedy, useful cattle. The beefing qual-
ity is emphasized, but scale and milk producing
ability are insisted upon. The cattle always
earry plenty of flesh, though no heavy grain
ration is allowed the breeding herd. Here is to
be found true Shorthorn character in all respeets
except the horns.

M. Z. Duston, Washington.—Mr. Duston has a
nice herd of cows of fair size, uniform in appear-
ance and of real Shorthorn character and type.
They ave raising good calves, which indicates

¢

 
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they are good eT Such men as C. W. Tay-
lov, RR. DT. Scott, G. Y. Johnson, Achenbach Bros.,

M. Git ford ie Kk. A. Hess, whose herds give
a substantial foundation upon which to build,
furnished the cows. LT was impressed with con-
ditions as t Found them here. Mar. Duston is not
aman who fecls he knows it all. He is intelli-
eent and is a close student of whatever he under-
takes and he has succeeded in getting together a
dozen or more cows of Just the mght kind to make
money for the farmer. The element of specula-
tion was wiscly left out of consideration. The
production of real Shorthorns is the aim, which
1 feel sure will be carried out. The foundation
is Well selected and the farm furnishes plenty of
pasture, alfalfa and good water, the three main
requisites for success.

E. A. Ostlund, Clyde.—A graduate of the Kan-
sas State Agricultural College with a natural in-
chination toward Shorthorns should make the
little herd on this farm develop well and grow in
munbers. Mr. Osthind has the true breeder’s in-
stinct in his desire for improvement and in mak-
ing auy purchases, betterment of the herd will be
the objective. Tle has some eood females and the
cows Inust not only raise their calves but must
also supply milk and butter for the family, which
they are doing. The herd bull is Lord Mystie
617055, an Aineoats bred son of the Tomson bred
Mystic Vietor out of a cow by Lord Marr,
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 621

Gifford’s good son of Lord Mayor. Mr. Ostland
is acting wisely in not overlooking milking
quality in his cows.

WILSON COUNTY

M. J. Roney, Benedict—Some years ago in
one of the Fredonia sales H. M. Hill seld an ex-
cellent lot of roan heifers and he also imeluded
Ingle Lad, (see H. M. Hill sketch) the sire of
nearly all his young stock. Mr. Roney was the
high bidder for the bull and through this pur-
chase became known as a man with a good bull at
the head of his herd. The heifers by Ingle Lad
developed into first-class cows, all good milkers
and good breeders and those in Mr. Roney’s herd
are no exception to this rule. One of these cows
is out of a granddaughter of imp. Craibstone
Shepherdess, the dam of the well known Craib-
stone. Another is out of a cow by Ficld Marshall
by Marshall Abbotsburn, a son of Mary Abbots-
burn 7th, the greatest prize winning cow in
America and by Young Abbotsburn, probably
the most wonderful of all American show bulls.
In common with practically all Wilson county
herds, Mr. Roney’s cattle have a strong imfusion
of the blood of imp. Collynie and the Ingle Lad
cows, as Well as the rest of the herd, nicked well
with the next bull, Golden Hampton, a son of
Hampton Spray, one of the best bulls ever owned
in southern Kansas. Golden Hampton was out
Os \ ELISTORY OF STLORTHORNS IN KANSAS

of Golden Qucen 3d by imp. Collynie, second dam
inp. Golden Queen, one of the choice cows of the
Hanna importation, Mr. Roney will follow
Golden Hampton with a bull of such quality as
to work Hnprovement.

R. E. Schwartz, Fredonia.—Mr. Schwartz has
a good herd and he has the enthusiasm for the
work which is a guarantee of success. In 1915
he bought one cow and two years later he bought
a few more. A good bull was also secured and
aiter two years a better one was bought to sue-
ceed the first. His have all been sensible and con-
servative methods of procedure and with nat-
ural facilities for handling his stock and a pleas-
Ing personality in the man, we can safely fore-
east a successful future for the herd.

Syeamore Rosebud is a roan by Sunblaze,
a bull used for some time by H. M. Hill. She is
a eranddaughter of two of the best cows of their
day, Syringia by Royal Knight and Inelemaid
by imp. Inglewood. Scotch Bessie is by Orange
Marshall, the Victor Orange bull used so sue-
cessfully by Stunkels. Sycamore Emina is by
Master of the Dales, a bull that has a wide repu-
tation asa sire. Her dam is by Ingle Lad, now
recognized as one of the best getters of heifers
ever owned in Kansas. At the Southeast Kansas
sale in 1920 Proud Archer, junior champion of
the show, was secured for serviee in the herd,
This bull is an outstanding one by Kansas
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 623

Archer, son of Mistletoe Archer, whose dam
Sweet Mistletoe was also the daim of the 1919 In-
ternational grand champion. Mr. Schwartz is
secretary of the county Shorthorn breeders as-
sociation and one of the promoters of the calf
club.

R. C. Watson & Sons, Altoona.—This is one of
the promising firms of breeders, for the boys are
enthusiastic and seem to be developing agri-
cultural inclinations based on the production of
pure bred stock. The herd is quite good and will
grow to be better. There are now twenty-five
females on the farm. Bertha Daybreak 2d is by
Pride of Riverdale, a son of Star of the Reaim.
A daughter of this cow by Orange Duke, son of
the well known Orange Model, is also in the herd.
April Princess is by Royal Prince by Mr.
Haina’s Prince Royal out of Princess Airdrie,
own sister to Ingle Lad. Lassie 2d is another
daughter of Royal Prince and on her dam’s side
carries the blood of Kinellar, the son of imp.
Dalmena Mina.

A bull used until recently was Golden Lad.
His sire combined the blood of imp. Collynie,

toyal Knight and imp. Inglewood and his dain
was by unp. Master Walton out of a cow by the
noted bull 47th Duke of Airdrie. The present
bull is White Goods used by Mr. Hyde for sey-
eral vears with good results. He is a big, strong,
robust fellow from large ancestry. His sire,
624 A HISTORY OF SILORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Prince Violet, was by a son of Collynie out of a
daughter of Choice Goods and his dam was by
Godwin, the well known son of imp. Spartan
Hero and imp. Golden Thistle. I have seen ex-
ceptional calves by this bull.

J. W. Hyde, Altoona.—Mr. Hyde, the least
breeder in Wilson county, was born and raised
on a Shorthorn farm (see J. C. Hyde sketch,
Part I) and his sons and daughters are getting
into the business. He has been a patron of Mr.
Will and Mr. Wanna and as a result has a herd
strong in Collynie blood. He owns the excellent
Prince of Collynie cow, Robinita Winsome and
twenty of his forty females are her descendants.
Mr. Hyde has consistently used good, well bred
bulls and has insisted on the bulls being out of
heavy milking cows. The dual-purpose Short-
horn is his object and he is succeeding, for his
herd shows a lot of good sized cows of decided
milking tendencies. He is now using a bull by
Master of the Dales.

Later.—My. Hyde has just purchased several
imported females, including the prize winning
two-year-old Bright Gem and her bull ealf (see
page 277) of J. ©. Robison and the old establish-
ment is taking on new life. When you count the
men who have produced the profitable kind of
cattle in southeast Kansas, J. W. Hyde must be
named near the top.

John A. Kepler, Altoona.—Mr. Kepler has a
A HISTORY OF SILORTHORNS IN KANSAS 625

dozen excellent females and a high-class bull.
The first purchase made at the Thorn sale was
followed by judicious selections at the 1919 Inde-
pendence sale and at Fremont Leidy’s sale.
Three choice females were secured at the Cen-
tral sale and three at the 1920 sale in Independ-
ence, The herd is far above the average in qual-
ity and inclides cows of select breeding with
pedigrees that any ene would consider very de-
sirable. The bull is a large, massive, young fel-
low bred by Ogden & Son and sired by Diamond
Baron, a bull that has made a reputation as a
sire. His dam is not only a good cow, but she is
also a heavy milker, a thing it does not pay to
overlook. Mar. Kepler bas made the right start
for a veal Shorthorn herd.

Mait Wiltse, Earlton.*—This herd including a
dozen females from good cows and by good bulls
is going to be even better. The original pur-
chases were from George MeFadden and J. C.
Thorn and three more were added at Fremont
Leidy’s sale. Gnported Collynie and Lord Mayor,
two of the best bulls ever in Kansas, are the sires
with whose blood the cows are filled. Mr. Wiltse
is using one of the best young bulls in the state.
He is by Diamond Baron at the head of Ogden &
Sons’ herd. His dam is from Robert Russell’s
herd and is by Lily Cup by Searlet Secret, dam
by Lord Golden Crest. If this young bull

 

Station and telephone, Altoona.
O26 \ HISTORY OF SITORTITORNS IN KANSAS

developes as he should, he will be fit to go
into any show ring and as a breeding prospect le
is one of the best T have seen.

J. F. Campbell, Benedict.—Mr. Campbell is
among the older breeders of the county and keeps
only a small herd. Ee has produced good cattle
and now has a few heifers that would be a credit
to the owner of a large herd. He knows the value
of the right kind of a bull and also knows how to
feed and develop young stock to grow them into
first-rate breeders.

R. R. McDonald, Altoona.—Mr. McDonald has
a splendid farin on which to keep Shorthorns and
he has some good ones in the herd. One of the at-
tractive young things is a heifer by Silver Dale
now at the head of the Barrett & Land herd.
Fortuna, an excellent short-legged red by the
Hanna bred Fortune, would be a valuable eow in
any herd. Mr. MeDonald owns a dozen females.
The sire in use is Funston 694476, by a first-class
breeding son of Sycamore Seerct. (See H. M.
Hill sketeh, Part I.)

O’ Dell Bros., Fredonia.—This firm is making
rapid progress in building up the right kind of
a herd. In conmon with all Shorthorns of this
section the eows are strong in the blood of imyp.
Collynie and the valuable stock distributed by
Mr. Hanna and Mr. Till) The bull in use repre-
sents Royal Prince (see Hyde sketch) and his
dani is by Ingle Lad, a bull now winning mueh
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 627

fame as a sive of great producing cows. O’Dell
Bros. should be heard from in the future.

WOODSON COUNTY

Henry F. Lauber, Yates Center.—Mr. Lauber
has been a breeder of good Shorthorus since 1909
and before that tune he had been producing
splendid high grade cattle, always using high-
class Shorthorn bulls. The foundation cows for
the present herd were bought at the annual sales
of the Woodson County Breeders Association
and at the J.T. Bayer dispersion, the better fe-
males, only, beime retained. The culling out pro-
cess has been carried on and the results are seen
in a herd inuch better than the original pur-
chases. The care and feed given the herd have
not been the best, vet have been sufficient to ma-
ture a very creditable lot of cows that are breed-
ing well and suckline their calves in nice shape.
Mr. Lauber has decided, however, to dispose of
the grades and give his pure bred herd the care
and consequent development a first-rate Short-
horn herd should have.

The cows with which he began business were
nearly all by good bulls and the two high-class
hulls used in the herd have added to the quality
of the cattle until the young annuals are in type,
conformation and in actual blood lines, worthy
spechnens of the breed aud the kind that give
the maximiun returns for the feed consumed.
628 A ELISTORY OF SILORTHORNS IN KANSAS

The first bull purchased was the red, Ingle-
yade, by linp. Collynie out of a Potts Sempstress
cow by imp. Inglewood. He was a show calf of
unusual finish that matured into a bull of good
size and asa breeder was satisfactory. Quite a
namber of the young cows in the herd are by him.
The bull wow in use, Secret Hampton, was bred
by H. M. Hill. He is a large, big-boned, deep-
bodied, short-legeed fellow, not a show bull but
What is better, a bull of unusual merit as a sire,
his calves being big, pleasing, modern Short-
horns. His sire, Mistletoe Archer, out of Sweet
Mistletoe, dam of Lespedeza Collyiie, 1919 In-
ternational grand champion, is considered by
Mr. Hill one of the best bulls he ever owned.
His dain by Mr. Hanna’s great Hampton Spray
has recently been sold by Ma. Hill for #2000 to
vo to Pennsylvania.

C. E. Hill & Son, Toronto.—Mr. Hill bought
six heifers and a bull in 1914 and was able to hold
a sale of fifty head in 1919. The herd now nuin-
hers twenty females.  Albion’s Missie is) by
Bettie’s Albion, a well bred Scoteh bull from J.
R. Whisler’s herd. Her dam is Brawith Missie
hy Piide of Avondale the son of Avondale and
Imp. Rosewood 86th. Ravelstone Girl is a big
roan by Goodline, son of imp. Collynie, dam. by
inp. Lord Cowshp. This eow is proving an un-
usual breeder. Golden Lavender, a medium

roan, has in her top crosses a wealth of good
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 629

ancestry, including imp. Daydreams Pride, imp.
Trout Creek Clan Alpine and the Harris bred
Vandal.

A recent purchase included Band Light Mist
by Hampton Mist, son of Hampton Spray out of
a Collyine cow. Her dain is by Bandmaster, son
of imp. Fashion’s Favorite and imp. Augusta
Bruce. Bettie’s Albion, the bull mentioned above,
was used for several years and in 1918 a new sire
was secured from Carpenter & Ross. He comes
from Canada and is of blood lines quite popular
in that country. His dam is out of Rosewood
90th by hup. Lord Mistletoe and is a daughter of
imp. Rosewood 87th.

Elmer Hill, the junior member of the firm,
while still a boy, is the making of a Shorthorn
nan of more than ordinary ability. Mrs. Hill
also takes much interest in the cattle.

Herbert Laude, Rose.—Mr. Laude was a jun-
lor partner in the firm of G. A. Laude & Sons
and in 1915 he took over the herd owned by them.
This was sold 11 1918 and the present herd has
been acquired recently. Ten females of correct
breeding type are now on the farm and these
cows and others that may be purchased will be
kept only as long as they produce excellent
calves. A few of the best bulls will be sold for
brecders, the greater number being destined
for the beef market. Real merit in the animal
and in its ancestry is the objective. The females
G30 A HISTORY OF SILTORTIHORNS IN KANSAS

include a very choice daughter of Prince Valen-
tine 4th, several by Matchless Gloster, son of
Matelless Dale and a splendid heifer by Silk
Cioods, Mr. Huber’s well known son of Choice
Goods.

The bull in use is Goldspur, a Hanna bred son
of Hampton Spray out of Golden Queen 3d by
imp. Collynie. THis grandam is the Duthie bred
imp. Golden Queen. Not many bulls in Kansas
or clsewhere have ancestors that combine so
much beef and milk. Goldspur has proved a sire
of the best and most profitable class of Short-
horns and his elegant pedigree would be accept-
able anywhere,

J. L. Jackson & Son, Rose.—The herd includes
only five females but they are from excellent an-
cestry and lack only better development to make
them strictly good ones. <A four-year-old
cow by Hampton Primrose, one of the best bred
bulls of the breed and out of a daughter of imp.
Mariner is suckling a first-class heifer calf by
secret. Robin now owned by Miss Stanley of
Authony. The Jacksons co-operate with Herbert
Laude on herd bulls and the bulls are always
eood Ones.
CONCLUSION

The year 1920 ushered in a readjustment in
prices brought about by wartime conditions,
which, coming several years sooner than expected,
had a marked effect on prices paid for Short-
horns. It is the general impression that prices
are more nearly stable than they have been since
1915 and that but little, if any, reduction from
present range of values will take place. Good
Shorthorns are now selling and will continue to
sell at prices that will make their production
very profitable. The wide market for cattle of
this breed insures a steady and healthy demand
for all the good specimens that can be produced
end the placing of values on a permanent basis
will encourage many farmers in making a start
with the reds, whites and roans.

Some early sumer sales held values well, but
nearly all later ones witnessed sharply redueed
prices. In June Col. H. L. Burgess sold forty
head at Fort Scott, securing $3150 for a bull and
$1025 for a yearling heifer. The entire sale made
a good average. The fall sale season was opened
by A. L. Johnston at Ottawa and followed by the
Southeast Kansas sale at Independence. Both
these sales were particularly unfortunate in that
farmers had been kept out of the fields for sev-
eral weeks and were just well started sowing
G32 A THSTORY OF SLLORTIFORNS IN KANSAS

wheat. TH was impossible to get out the crowd.
Mr. Johnston sold a number and stopped the sale.
The Southeast association sold their entire offer-
ing toa very small crowd at low prices. On Oc-
tober 7, A. L. Harris sold thirty-five head at his
farm near Osage City at an average of about
#250 and the same day Frank I]. Yeager sold in
Chase county at prices showing a decline of 25
per cent. The next day the Morris County
Breeders Association sale at Council Grove sold
a lot, nearly all in thin condition, that went beg-
eing for bids much above market value. On the
9th, Phillips Bros. dispersed their herd at Coun-
cil Grove at prices steady with 1920 spring sales.
Chas. Casement sold at Sedan on October
12, securing prices of a year earher. The
sales at Ottawa and Pleasanton were fair and
the one at Fort Scott was a failure. The Allen
county association sold fifty head at Humboldt
at strong prices that showed but little decline. A
big sale held at Leavenworth on October 28, was
dragey and 40 per cent lower and the association
sale at Hiawatha was reported as much as 50 per
cent off from the igh poimt. The Ameriean
Roval sale was probably 40 per cent below that
of 1919. North central Kansas sales held up
better, although there was a lowering tendency
all over the state.

Shawnee county breeders made an excellent
offering December 15, and secured good prices.
A ITISTORY OF SHORTIORNS IN KANSAS 635

The Lyon county association sold at Enporia on
the 22d, the worst day of the winter, with only
forty persons present. Prices ruled low. The
big sales at Wichita were quite snappy and the
prices received, while sharply lower, were very
satisfactory. Breeders were generally agreed
that Shorthorn values had suffered a loss of
from 25 to 50 per cent from the peak.

A number of counties have forged ahead with-
in the past eighteen months in a manner worthy
of special mention. About forty new breeders
have been started in Leavenworth county and a
large sale pavilion has been erected. I. N. Chap-
man, county agent, and Otto H. Wulfekuhler,
banker, should be given eredit for being among
the foremost pushers.

Harper county fairly jumped into rank as one
of the leading Shorthorn counties. There are
now more than fifty breeders in the county. A
large sale pavilion has been built and big Short-
horn shows are being held. While a number of
persons deserve credit for this, it is conceded that
a woman did it. Miss Marguerite V. Stanley is
the leading spirit in the work and secretary of
the county association. She had the satisfac-
tion of seeing her herd bull, Secret Robin, made
erand champion at the 1920 show.

Sumner county is doing much in an educa-
tional way for the Shorthorn breeders. It is an
654 A IMSTORY OF SHORTITORNS IN KANSAS

old county that 1s carrying on a revival promis-
ing lasting results.

The Kansas National Show held at Wichita in
1921 was remarkable for the excellent showing
made by Kansas breeders. Tomson Bros. were
the leading winners, outclassing both Carpenter
& Ross and H. ©. Lookabangh. E. L. Stunkel
succeeded in getting his herd bulls well in the
money, having reecived second im the two-year-
old class and fifth in aged class. KE. P. Flan-
agan’s herd bull stood immediately below the
professional showmen in the aged class. Fred
Abildgaard had several entries of his young
stock in the money, as did also Fremont Leidy.
Gaeddert Bros. were, as usual, good winners, re-
ceiving third on aged bull, with all their entries
well in the money. J. ©. Robison won five
prizes on his entries of imported cattle and TH.
EK. Huber won a good place on his unported bull,
Imperator.

All over the state there is a fecline that the
era of high prices induced speculation that was
not conducive to herd improvement. Specula-
tion has now had its day and we may expect the
breeder to lose some of his commercial spirit and
to devote more time to producing good stock,
INDEX

Abildgaard, Fred, 316, 541.

Abraham, E. H., 181, 456, 459,
460, 474.

Ackley, R. J., 351.

Adams, A. A., 534.

Aeschliman, J. C. & Son, 515.

Airdrie 2478, 6(

Airdrie Duchess 2d & 3d, 34.

Airdrie Evergreen, 426.

Albion, 120.

Alexander, R. A., 19, 60.

Alfalfa Leaf Dale, 373.

Alfalfa Leaf News 10th, 378.

Alkire, M. J., 26.

Alkire & Wardell, 25.

Allen, Geo. & Sons, 419.

Allen, George W., 432.

Allen, Ivy & Sons, 310.

Allerton Rosebud 4th, Imp., 226.

Amecoats, 8. B., 76, 298, 304,
548.

American Woods Shorthorns,
152, 167.

Andrew, Adam, 121, 327.

Anderson, H. C., 460.

Appleton, Geo. J., 613.

Anderson, W. G., 55.

Archer, 579.

Archers Victor, 615.

Ardlethen Mystery, Imp., 241
3586.

Armour Bearer, 98.

Arneal, A. H., 609.

Arnold, F. B., 401.

Asheraft, A. M., 114.

Asheraft Bros., 115, 232.

Asher and Allison, 345.

Asher, P. P. & Son, 500.

Associations, County, 180.

Associations, District, 178.

Associations, State, 174.

Athene’s Scotchman, 317, 541,
543.

Athenian Coronet 4th, 614.

A True Cumberland, 233.

Auburn Dale, 538.

Augustus, 521.

),

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Austin, A., 520.

Avery Bros., 50.

Avery, R. H., 50.

Aylesbury Duke, Imp., 110.

Babbitt, C. A., 257.

3abst Bros., 614.

Babst, T. P. & Sons, 90, 95,
104, 115, 131, 233.

Baer, W. F., 520.

Bailey, G. W. K. & Sons, 47.

Bailey, W. E. W., 47.

Baird, Chas. M., 320.

Baker, J. W., 120.

Ballantyne, David, 123, 321,
370, 460.

Ballantyne, T. A., 123, 331.

Ballechin Rosewood 3d, Imp.,
277.

3anbury, J. C. & Sons, 552.

Baneroft, W. C., 58.

Banker 4th, 133.

Bapton Corporal, Imp., 224, 262,
267.

Bapton Dramatist, Imp., 373,
374.

Bapton Mariner, Imp., 355.

Bapton Pearl, 80.

Barmpton Knight, 97, 117, 580,
582, 588.

Barnes, B. F., 180.

Baronet of Maine Valley, 132.

Baron Marr, 129, 327, 356, 357.
3aron Victor, Imp., 64.

Barrett & Land, 428, 525.

Barr, I. & Son, 71.

Barrister, 111.

Basil Duke, 49.

Bates, Thos., 18, 19.

3ayer, Henry B., 135, 569.

Bayer, J. H., 134, 200.

Bayer, J. T., 136.

Beamon, R. M., 209.

Beaver Creek Sultan, 240, 570.

Beeman, ©. W., 211.

Beitler, D. M., 554.

Bellows Bros., 117, 209, 317.

Bellows, C. D., 236.
636 A THSTORY OF SITORTLILIORNS IN KANSAS

Bellows, F. & Sons, 79.
Belvedere, 132, 366.

Bemis, Geo. W., 482.
Benedict, Sen. &. 8., 106, 132.
Bennington Bros., 429.
sennington, C. & Sons, 429.
Bessie 5lst, Imp., 111, 249.
Best of Dales, 572.

3etsy Dailey, 90.
Betteridge, W. A., 234.
Betty’s Albion, 628.

Bill & Burnham, 125.

301 & Burnham Sale, 71.
Bill, O. W., 55.

Bird, C. D., 501,
Birkenbaugh, J. F., 431.
Black, John, 346.

Blake, Mrs. Grace, 500.
Bluemont Farm, 573.
3onnie Emblem, 575.
Booker, Forrest, 180.
Booth, Thos., 18.

Borger, H. & Son, 480.
Borland, Paul M., 302.
Bornhorst, H. J., 468.
30ttom, Tom, 394.

Bower, M. W., 349.
Bowman, John, 43.
Bozeman, W. 8&., 306.

Brandsby Augusta 4th, Imp.,

221,

3rott, KE. E., 310.

Braunsdorf, A. C., 438.

Brawith Heir, 308.
3readalbane 2d, 45.

3reeders <Assn., Blue Valley,
471.

3reeders Assn., Labette Co.,
437.

3reeders Assn., Osage Co.,

59

oal,
Breeders Assn., Wilson Co.,
623.
sreeder’s Gazette, 187.
Bridesmaid 2d, 451.
3ritish Emblem, Tmp., 462.
3ritish Lion, 104.
3rookover, TH. G., 181, 285, 359
562.
3rookover, W. H. & B., 361.
3rookover, W. J., 362, 369.
srown, BH. R., 5S.
3rown, G. W. & Sons, 286.

3rown, Jas. N. & Sons, 27, 61.

Brown, T. ©. & Bro., 358.

Buchanan, C. L., 308, 311.

Buchele, Chas. J., 296.

Buck, R. Seott, 618.

3unnell, R. M. & Sons, 232.

Bureau of Animal Industry,
137;

Burgess, Col. H. L., 182.
surgess, Col. H. L., Sale 324.

Burkham, W. 6, 54.

surtiss Bros., 55.

Burtiss, C. L., 55.

Burtis, W. J. & O. B., 569.

Butterfly Sultan 300788, 381.

Caldwell, 8. C. & Son, 212.

Calf Club, Johnston Co., 423.

Calf Club, Wilson Co., 623.

Campbell, HE. A., 559.

Campbell, F. B., 178, 436.

Campbell, J. F., 625,

Cane, Dan O., 472.

Captain 545855, 510.

Captain Archer, 110, 120.

Carpenter & Ross, 145, 221

Carriex, OJ H., 220.

Carter, Floyd, 358.

Case, A. & Sons, 563.

Casement, Chas., 294.

Caspar, Geo. J., 359.

Casterline, Armenia, 55.

Catlin, C. 8. & Son, 419.

Cedar Dale, 283, 285, 286.

Central Sale, 450,

Chaffee, N. L., 27, 58.

Challengers Knight, 326.

Chamberlin, (. A., 502,

Chaneellor, 230.

Channon, Geo., 124.

Chanute Pride, 501.

Cheney, 8. L., 121, 230.

Cherry Blossom 6th, 264, 267.

Cherry Grove Banff 19th, 450.

Chief Steward, 307.

Choice Goods, 111, 165.

Christmann, Col. D., 437.

Churchill, HW. H., 584, 594.

Clansman, 248, 256.

Clara’s Type, 542.

Clark Bros., 1

Clark, CG. H., 134.

Clark, R. L., 311.

Clark, Thos. R., 42.

 
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Classical Sultan, 248.

Clements Ivan, 396.

Cobb, W. E., 437.

Cochel, W. A., 137, 176.

Coffman, Ross A. & Son, 535,

College Emma, 139.

College Duchess 2d, 177, 572.

Colling Sale 1810, 18,

Collyme, Imp., 84, 85, 107, 110.

Collynie’s Pride, 123.

Collynie’s Primrose, 292.

Colman, Willis R., 343.

Colonel Carvel, 460, 610, 611,
612.

Color Bearer, 3551.

Columbia 5th, 449, 450,

Colwell, F. J., 312.

Conger, F. H., 135.

Constance, Lmp., 100.

Cook, Robert, 53.

Cornell, H. F., 356.

Cory, E. A: & Sons, 557.

Cottrell, Prof, H. M., Wie ie

Count Valentine 4th, 513,

Cowan, B. O., 96, 272, 284.

Cowan, John G., 2

Cowley, Fred, 110, 120.

Cox, 8. D., 378.

Craig, W. K., 217.

Crane, Albert, 32, 33, 34.

Craven Knight, Imp., 72.

Cream Toast, 140, 142.

Crespigny & Seiver, 39.

Crimson’s Daughter, 546.

Cronin, Wm. & Sons, 310, 311.

Crusader, 582.

Grystal Maid, 487.

Cumberland Champion, 592,

Cumberland Diamond, 599.

Cumberland Sultan, 596,

 

 

Cundiff, Dr. W. H., 50.
Cunningham, R. H., #79.
Cupbearer, Imp., 102, 121.

Dale Emblem, 273.

Dale, E. S., 181, 314.

Dales Cumberland 240, 257.

Dales Signet, 609,

Davis, M. V., 56.

Dawdy, D. L., 234.

Dawdy, D. L. & Co., 105.

Dawe, T. J. & Son, 117, 118,
336, 341, 343.

Defender, 568.

DeGeer, V.
Ranch, 129.
Clyde H., 510.
Robert P., 508.
Waldo E., 510.

Deming
Dent,
Dent,
Deut,

K.5. 241;

Devlin, Mrs. A. G., 398.

Diamond Emblem, 117,
343.

Dee

 

115, 256,

Di: imond Vietor, 474.
Dickie, Geo. L., 349.

Dickson,

Dimmock,

Ww. T.

& Son, 552
C. O., 180.

Diver & Potter, 205,
Doering, H. C., 217.

Dole,
Donham,
Donnelly,

R., W.,.52
R. B., 555.

Ohm f., 607.

Double Champion, 112, 386.
Double Dale, 551.

Double Gloster,

Imp., 78, 125.

Double Ury, 115.

Downing,

Ly Eng 370.

Dr. Primrose, 64, 101, 106, 133.

Drummond, R.
Duchess ©

A. Bale, 312.
ow, 18.

Duchess of Independence, 425.
Duchess of Geneva Sth, 60.

Duke of Airdrie, Imp.,

Duke

19, 60.

of Airdrie 23d, 32.

Duke of Airdrie 53d, 36.
Duke of Hazelcote 19th, 39.
Duke of Jubilee 2d, 32, 70.

,

Duke of Shannon Hill, 36.
Dumbauld, Levi, 56.
L. M. Dunaway, 453, 436.

Duncan, H.
Dunean, 8.
Herd,

Duphorne,

Dunn

 

Marcel 382.

Durham Park Herd, ag,

Duston,

M. Z., 619.

Duthie, Wm., 164, 2S0,

Karl of Aberdeen

2d, 125.

Karl of Athol, 52.

Karl of Valley Grove 20th, 133

oo,
Iaton,

Mdmonds,
dwards,

Lanson, 59.
Kidlelweiss,

Inia STL, Bre
Will, 245.
We -Ge, 1B:

Itbert & Ball, 79.

Ellis, V.
Eliquist,

Ris L28.
Luther, 475.
658 A HISTORY OF SHORTITORNS IN KANSAS

Kly, J. R., 461.
Mimblem’s Butterfly, 354.
Ismblem’s Dale, 595.
Ismblem Jr., 267, 314, 316.
Imma 8., 591.
Empress of Oxford 3d, 411.
Impress of Oxford 4th, 409.
Iinglish Woods Shorthorns, 154.
Estes, H. W., 181.
Etherington, T. M., 365, 368.
Kvans, Ervin, 180,
ISvans, Joe L., 402.
ISvergreen Sultan, 502.
Ewing Bros. (Barton Co.), 125.
Kwing Bros. (Mo.), 283.
ixpansion, A Period of, 31.
Fads, 166.
Fair Acres Sultan, 266.
Fair Acres Sultan 2d, 267.
Fair Acres Choice, 537.
Fair Champion, 481.
Fame’s Goods, 430, 481.
Iancy Dale, 448.
Fancy Lad 2d, 207, 214.
Fashioner 4th, 203.
Fashioner 7th, 438.
Fasken, J. A. & Son, 321.
Favorite, 382.
Fears, W. 8., 86.
Fergus, J. B., 114.
Fetherngill & Enfield, 212.
Final Test, The, 137.
Fiske, BE. E., 435.
Flanagan, E. P., 333.
Flat Creek Marys, 61.
Flinn, D. M., 51.
Flinn, Simpson, 51.
Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. H. T.,
105, 586.
Ford, T. 01, 75, 106,
Forest Daisy, 96.
Forest Daisy 2d, 96, 581.
Forest Knight, 127.
Poster, J. C., 503.
Iraser, Alex, 280, 407, 414, 426,
427, 550.
Frye, Mr. and Mrs. John, 499.
Funk, I. N., 120,
Murneaux, R. O., 114.
Furneaux, R. O. & Son, 203.
Gaddis, TL. 1., 209, 324, 336,
472.
5

Craeddert. Bros., 545,

Gainford Lancer, 313.

Galahad, 130.

Gallanaugh Bros., 423.

Gallant Knight, 93, 91, 95. 271,
579.

Gallant Knight’s Heir, 543.

Gallant Knight’s Star, 424.

Gallup, A. H., 469.

Garver, C. M., 124.

Georgeson, Prof. C. G., 71.

Gifford and Sons, 76.

Gifford, F. M., 76, 302, 303.

Gigstad, K. G., 16, 223, 442.

Gilbert, F. L., 367.

Gillespie, F. A. & Sons, 414,
487.

Gipsy Cumberland 5th, 301.

Glancys, The, 229.

Glendale, 290, 291.

Glendon, 100.

Glick, Geo. W., 29, 34, 49, 105.

Godwin, 128.

Golden Crown, 407.

Golden Drop of Hillhurst, 63,
2d. 229.

Golden Drops, 164, 165.

Golden Goods, 224.

Golden Hampton, 621, 622.

Golden Knight, 73, 124, 335.

Golden Lad, 132.

Golden Laddie, 617.

Golden Magnet, 459.

Golden Sharon, 203.

Goldspur, 630.

Good Choice, 228,

Good News, 273.

Good Seotehman, 254, 256.

Gowdy, B. W., 107, 114.

Grace Young 4th & 5th, 27, 70.

Gragg, W. W. & Sons, 350.

Grand Airdrie, 75,

Grand Duke of Kansas Ist, 26,
2B

Grand Duke of Oxford 3d, 26.

Graner, H. C., 231, 405.

Graner, Louis F., 236,

Graner, W. H., 235.

Grant, George, 40.

Gray, Thos., 530.

Green, Col. Ed, 386.

Greever, Geo. W., 28.

Gregg, Jas, 130, 131, 519.

Griffee Bros., 470.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 639

Gross, Col. P. M., 182.

Guild, Joseph E., 50.

Gulick, Wm. & Son, 521.

Gus Villager, 385.

Gwendoline 79th, 140, 142.

Haag, H. J., 402.

Hailey, Mr. and Mrs. R. E., 509.

Hall Bros., 135, 204.

Hall, Dr. W. C., 503.

Hall, O. B., 575.

Hallwood Lavender, 264.

Halls Cumberland, 310.

Hamill, J. M., 296.

Hamiltons, 61.

Hamilton Sales, 58, 59.

Hamlet, 603.

Hamm, A. & Son, 446, 505.

Hampton, 293.

Hampton Primrose, 327, 630.

Hampton Spray, 86, 266.

Hanna, 8. C., American Cows
Bought, 79, 120.

Hanna, 8. C., Importations, 80,
207.

Hanna, Mrs. 8. C., 88.

Hanna, 8. C., 66, 78, 88, 360,
361.

Hansen, N. B., 254.

Harding, F. W., 81, 82, 165.

Harriman Bros., 112.

Harrington, Clay & H. M., 122.

Harrington, J. W., 311.

Harris, W. A., 36, 46, 52, 62,
72, 90, 125, 128, 164, 165,
174, 270, 329.

Harris, W. A., Dispersion, 69.

Harris, W. A., Imported Cows,
64, 66.

Hart Bros., 30.

Hart, C. I., 30.

Hart, G. F., 469, 520.

Harkey, Dr. W. C., 420.

Harper Co., 633

Hasebrook Herd, 262.

Haskin, 8. B., 425.

Hasty, Imp., 28.

Haub, Henry, 405.

Haury, E. J., 384.

Hawk, W. B. & M., 1380.

Hayes, Everett, 116.

Hayes, H. E., 129.

Hayes, L. D., 244.

Haynes, H. A., 288.

Hayes, L. D., 180.

Heacock, E. EK, & Sons, 307.

Headlight, 445 .

Heglund, Ed, 236, 444.

Heimann, H. & Son, 516.

Helmer, Roy, 350.

Hendricks, C. L., 482.

Herd Bull, Selecting, 279.

Herds of Minor Importance,
113;

Herriff, Col. E. H., 184.

Higday, H. L., 504.

Higinbotham, Wm., 78.

Hill, C. E. & Son, 628.

Hill, Elmer, 629.

Hill, H. M., 12, 66, 76, 106, 119,
120, 134, 176, 436, 484, 564.

Hill, Mrs. H. M., 108.

Hoadley & Sigmund, 132.

Hoadley, Geo. H. & Son, 132.

Hogan, W. E., 368, 370.

Holeomb, J. H., 180, 200, 227
309,

Holloran, W. J., 553.

Holloway, Mr. and Mrs. T. E.,
205.

Holmes, H. H., 131, 359, 590.

Holroyd, M. L., 295.

Holt, E. C., 216.

Homan, O. A., 180.

Homan, O. A. & Sons, 386.

Hoover’s Dale, 423.

Hopley Stock Farm, 234.

Horville Bros., 206, 212.

Hothan, Chas. & Son, 526.

Houghton, F. G., 507.

Householder, M. A., 102, 121.

Householder, M. E., 304.

Hoverson, A. A., 338.

Howard, C. M. & Sons, 242.

Huber, H. E., 23, 364, 406, 408.

Huber, J. M., 23.

Hull, L. B., 119.

Hultine, Albert, 145.

Humphrey, C. P., 398.

Hunter Bros., 566.

Hunton, G. E., 53.

Hyde, Fred, 127.

Hyde, J. C., 127.

Hyde, J. W., 127, 142, 625.

Imperator, Imp., 408.

Importation, 1817, 18.

 

d
610 A TIESTORY OF SITORTIHORNS IN KANSAS

Importation, Re A, Alexander,
19.

linportation, Albert Crane, 35.

Importation, Geo, Grant, 41.

Importation, S.C. Tanna, 80,
207.

Tiiportation, Leavenworth ’s, 39.

Importation, Ohio Co., 1S.

Importation, dd. ©. Robison,
143,

Ingle Lad, 108, 867, 552, 621.

Ingle Maid, 108.

Ingle Prince, 527.

Ingleside for Me, 615.

Ingle’s Secret, 501,

Inglewood, Imp., 85, 108, 360,
21%

TIngleynie, 628.

Inlow, John, 26, 27.

Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Jas., 517.

Jackson, J. L. & Son, 630.

Jackson, Sam’l, 518.

Jacob, A .W.,

Jagels, Theo., ‘

James, Col. Andy J. 184, 412.

James, Col. and Mrs. Andy J.
412, 413.

Jasperson, V. A., 181, 527.

Jealous Dale, 570, 574,

Jenlous Renown, 611.

Jennie Rivers, 469.

Jewell Arden, 313.

Jewell, J. L., 210.

Jewell, Wesley, 178, 207, 214.

Joan of Are, 33.

Joe’s Lord, 115.

Johnson Bros., 545.

Johnson, Carl, 476.

Johnson, Gr. Yo, 80, 255.

Johnson, Herman A., 9288

Johnston, A. L., 178, 354.

Jones, John Tu. & Sons, 218.

Justice, Col. H. M., 184.

Kahl, Samuel, 49.

  
  
  

Kansas Agricultural College,
(5, 27, 69, 177, 180, 409, S71,
Re.

Kansas larmer-Mail & Breeze,

 

189,
Kansas Werds of Today, 194.
IKKansas National Show, 282,
546, 547, 608, G05, 634.

Kansas Prinee, 496,

Kansas Shorthorn Breeders As-
sociation, 174.

Kansas State Mair, 521, 551.

Kellerman, D. K. & Son, 97,
J00,

Kellerman, Geo, Je, 98, 209,
146, 448, 452,

Kelly, Frank X., 415.

Kepler & Wiltse, 222.

Kepler, John A., 624.

Kerr, Archibald, 42, 43.

Kerr, W. F., 421.

Kier Jip, Imp., 371.

Kimball, C. H., 134.

King, Joe & Son, 285.

King, Rex, 515,

Kingsley, F. C., 133, 593.

Kinnellar, 107.

KKinochtry Ensign, Iinp., 417.

Kinzer, R. J., 74, 129.

\KXirk, F. 8., 176.

KKissenger, J. HL., 61.

Kitchin, A. F., 523.

Kleppe, H. V. & Sons, 255.

Kona, 30. Tn, 20. G19,

Knapp, to A., 29, 25, 617.

Knight, J. F., 311.

Knotts, J. L., 504.

Knox, S&S. M., 180, 199, 295,
466.

KKvaft, John, 58.

Kramer, John, 86, 489.

Kupper, Henry, 400,

Lackey, A. H. and H. H., 56

Lady Cumberland, 202.

Lady Hmima, 499.

laaly Marshall, 255,

Tiady Sale of Atchison, 56.

 

widy Sale of Brattleboro, 36.
widy Supreme, 267.

 

ant Bros., 435.
esstiian,, Fred, 271.
attimer, Walter, 105, 114.
anher Bros, 124
mulher, Te. Pi. 627.
avila, -C. Ay, 176, 177:
mude, Tlerhbert, 629.
aide, Martin L., 190.
atude Printing Co., 190.
Laury, J. G., 218.
Tiavender Best, 136.
Lovender Chief, 614.
A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 641

Lavender HMmblem, 249, 250.
Lavender King, 444.
Lavender King 4th, 98.
Lavender Marshal, 479.
Lavender Search, 474, 56°.
Lavender Stamp, 417, 428.
Lavender T., 140.
Lavender Viceroy, 74.
Lawtou Tommy, Tip., 302.
Leach, Frank, 55.
Leavenworth Co., 633.
Leclerc, G. N., 564.
Leidy, Clarence, 285.
Leidy, Fremont, 23, 176, 179,
280, 286, 288.
Leidy, Mr. and Mrs. Fremont,
9
83

 

Leonard, (. E., 61, 226.

Lewis, W. H., 445.

Libel, J. I. & Son, 341.

Liberty Boy, 112.

Lilae, 84.

Linwood Lavender 14th, 98.

Lister, R. H., 352

Ibittle,. Hy “R.,. 123;

Loch Bros., 397.

Lodge, C. V. & J. P., 101.

Lookabaugh, H. ©., 101, 145.

Lopez, 290.

Lord Abraham, 35.

Lord Albion, 560,

Lord Alexander, Imp.,

Lord Archer, 564.

Lord Bantf 2d, 129, 256.

Lord Cowslip, Imp., 86.

Lord Mayor, 66, 95, 96, 97, 131,
614.

Lord Mayor Diy Ie HGH:

Lord Mystic, 620.

Lorimer, Boyd, 427.

Lorimer, J. A., 422.

Lorimer, W. D., 422.

Loudon Duke 6th, 255,

Loudon Duke 18th, 32.

Louthian Bros., 240.

Love, H. W., 424.

Lovett, Claude, 181, 211, 564.

Lovett, John J. 59:

Lowe; M. As, 131.

Ludwig, E. D.,. 117.

lukert, B. D.,. 117.

Livkert, al. FL & Sons, 200,

Luniley, J. G., 459.

 
 

99
soe,

  

Lyne, B. M. & Sons, 544.

Lyous, M. H., 46, 312.

Maag, R. 8., 357.

Mack; Ji, 403,

Maninger, Fred, 382.

Mantey and Harriman, 454.

Marcy & Son, 46.

Marcy, T. M., 45.

Marauder, 572.

Maria 30th, Imp., 231.

Mariner, Imp., 107.

Markley, A. M. & Sons, 130,
452,

Marks, Dr. M. F., 401, 410, 516,

Marquis Cumberland, 213, 343,
344, 346.

Marshall Abbotsburn 35d, 123.

Marshall Bros., 122.

Marshall, Geo. 8., 181, 444.

Marshall Lee, 122.

Marshall’s Crown, 396, 585.

Martin, H. 8., 463.

Martin, ol, Wy, OG,

Martin, J. T. & Son, 368.

Massa, G. W., 439.

Massa, O. O., 370, 494.

Master of the Dales, 109, 491,
626,

Master of the Grove, 120, 614.

Master Marshal, 604.

Master Pavonia, 374.

Masters; H, J., 135.

Matchless Collynie, 482.

Matehless Dale, 8, 15, 75, 419,
572.

Matchless Queen, 141.

Maxwalton Mandolin, 275.

Maxwalton Rosedale, 47, 451,
582, G17.

Mayor Alcott, 452.

MeAdsius, J. H., 181.

McAfee, H. W., 104.

MeAtee, J. B., 104.

MeCainplell, Dr. C, W., Lag,
176, 190.

MeClaughey, Dr. G, A., 455.

McCoy, John & Sons, 251,

MeCulloch, Col. Jas. T.,

MeDermaid, John, 120,

MeDonald, R. R., 626.

Meera, Co. Ws. 220). pal.

MeGregur, 16.

McHardy, F., 56.

 

   
 

  
642 A LUISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS

Meltntosh, Elmer, 245.
McLenon, H. A., 225.

Meall Bros., 177, 478.
Meissner, If. ©., 219.
Mellowhide, 231.

Merriam, ©, W., 13).

Merry Hampton, 81.

Metzger, M. A., 511.

Meuser & Co., 601.

Meyer, Mrs. KE. A., 119.

Meyer, Harrison, 440.

Meyers, EK. S., 124, 595.
Milleraie Costly Belle, Imp., 224.
Milk Production, Breeding for,

me
a2.

Miller, J.. H.,. 55%
Miller, J. b., U0
Miller, John, 2357.
Miller, John Q. A., 115, 237.
Miller, J. R., 428,

Miller Stock Farms, The, 613.
Miller, Wm., 53.

Mina Marigold Lady, 243.
Mina’s Avon Viillager, 324.
Minister, 27.

Miss Acorn, 523.

Missie’s Last, 267, 314.
Miss Snowbird Sultan, 267.
Mistletoe Archer, 490, 491.
Mistletoe 15th, Imp., 110.
Miss Watson, 26.

Mitchell Bros., 408.

Mitchell, 8. D., 322, 610.
Modern Scotchman, 399.
Mohler, Sec. J. C., 178.
Moody, Joel, 25.

Moreland, E. L., 45%.

Morris & Beear, 19.

Morse Bros., 542.

Morse, O. I. & Sons, 129.
Mott, H. O., 513.

Mr. Marshal, 396.

Mr. Mysie, 454.

Murdoch Bros., 417.

Murphy, Thos. & Sons, 605,
Mussett, J. A., 445.

Myers, Jt. A., 342.

Myers, Mrs. K. A., 342.
Myreton Seal, Imp., 252.
Nelson, Jacob, 177, 200,
Nelson, W. R., 37.

Nevius, ©. §, 112, 214, 24,

862,

 

Neville, A. H., 439.

Neweom, Col, Boyd, 185.

New lcho, 450.

Newman, Dr. J. R., 243.

Newton Friar, Imp., 262.

New Year’s Delight, 470, 581.

New Year’s Kmblem, 342.

Nielson, J. M., 180, 471.

Noffsinger, L. M., 535, 539,
609,

Nonpareil 35th, Imp., 31, 249.

Nonpareil Avondale, 411.

Nonpareil Star, 272.

Norris, C. B., 28, 48.

North Amercius, 525,

Norton, D. P., 108, 462.

Norton, J. Clarence, 113.

Norton’s Golden Drop, 65, 66.

Oakdale King, 514.

Ode, Henry & Son, 441.

Odell Bros., 626.

Odell, Stephen C., 509.

Ogden & Sons, 624.

O’Kane, John, 180.

Oldenettel, F. H., 554.

Olson, H. & Sons, 528.

Olson, Theo & Sons, 402, 567.

O’Neal, James & Son, 29, 59.

O’Neill, Owen, 457, 473.

Ostlund, KE. A., 620.

Otto Bros., 572.

Outcrosses in Scotch Pedigrees,
164.

Orange Baron, 590.

Orange Blossom of Oakland,
ii;

Orange Blossom Perfection, 121.

Orange Goods, 606.

Orange Major, 121, 328, 453.

Orange Premier, 519,

Orange Viscount, 111,

Ovark Sultan, 432,

Paddock, Ted D. & Sons, 455.

Parks... -C., B67:

Paton, J. EK. 818, 319.

Pavonia, Tmp., 100.

Peck, 1. O. & Son, 18, 603,

Peerless, 565,

Percherons to Shorthorns, 276.

Perkins & Alley, 346,

Peters, Py J. 58.

Peterson, Anton, 476,

Peterson Bros., 475, 476.
A HISTORY OF SHORTII

Peterson, M. R. 8338, 340.
Phyllis Duke, 90.
Pickrell, J. H., 61.
Piper, John F., 28

Pleasant Acres Sultan, 548, 549,
Pleasant Dale Sultan, Dads
Poland, ae & Son, 514.
Pollard, M. pao

Polson, Geo. ce 5S,

Potter, John B., 181, 374.

Powell, A. G., 505.

Pride of Collynie, 78.

Pride’s Bessie, 140.

Prime Minister, Imp., 130,

Prince Imperial 2d, 156.

Prince of Collynie, 108, 109,
254, 486.

Prince Lovely, 100,

Prince Royal, 49s.

Prince Valentine 4th, 208, 212,
316; 862, 392, 630;

Princess Columbia, 486.

Pringle, Andrew, 46, 610.

Pringle, J. A., 616.

Proud Archer, 622.

Purple Ribbon Sale, 274.

Queen Lil, 421.

Ralston, E. T., 405.

Ravenswood Admiration, 74.

Rawlings Bros., 369.

Ray, J. P. & Sons, 347.

Realm’s Count 2d, 420.

Reber, D. E., 117.

Red Gauntlet, 135.

Red Laddie, 544.

Red Oak, 115.

Zed Rose, 140.

Red Rube, Imp., 251.

Reece, A. M., 606.

Reed, Thos. B., 513.

Rees, Conway, 460.

Reeves, L. W. 513.

Regier, John, 200, 202, 242, 268
269, 361, 464, 551.

Renick, Abram, 60.

Renick Rose of Sharons, 60,
195.

Reynolds and Pritchard, 54.

Rhoads, Jas., 425.

Rice Co., Herd, An Early, 50.

Richardson, I. T., 181.

Richelieu, 306.

Ringmaster, 116.

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ORNS IN KANSAS 643

Ridiculous Propositions, 166,
167.

Roan Geraldine, 547.

Roan Heather, 305,

Roan Lord, 199.

Roan Marshall, Imp., 522,

Roan Model, 3:

Roan Sultan, 5

Robbins, F. Jo

Robin, 84.

Robinetta 4th, 455.

Robinita Winsome, 625.

Robison, J. C., 142, 145, 274,
504, 626.

Robison, Wm. Ellet, 276.

Rockefeller, Frank, 115.

hock Springs Pride, 445.

Rodney, 120, 131.

Roenigk, Riehard, 513.

Rollins, A. W., 44, 70.
tomine, D. 8., 434.

Roney, M. J., 621.

Ronsick, C. H., 209.

Rork, Jesse, 3&3.

Rosedale, 229, 238, 240.

toschaugh, Imp., 229,

tosehaugh Belle 2d, Imp., 22s.

Rosewood, 560.

Rosewood Cathay, 544,

Rosewood Dale, 260, Lor, 264
267, 376.

Rosewood Pride, *38, 345.

Rosewood Stamp, Lmp., 29.

Ross, Geo. B., 125, 126.

Ross, Peter, 82.

Rothwell & Sons, 426.

Rowley, Guy & Son, 453.

Royal Gloster, 124.

Royal Knight, S4.

Royal Leader, 249.

Royal Marshal, 300.

Royal Nonpareil, 514.

Royal Pirate, Imp., 72.

Royal Type, 545.

Royal Violet, 588.

Rule, Gol. H. T., 185,

Runft, EH. W., 483.

Russell, Robert & Son, 220, 477.

Rutledge, E. H., 112, 113, 567.

Ryan, Matthew, 39.

Sales, Auction, 1919, 631,
6a;

Salter, Park J., 145, 176, 258.

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644 A HISTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

Salter, Park K., Sale, 416, 446,

591.

Salter-Robison Sale, 145, 176,

243, 280.

Sanborn, J. P., 53.

Sanders, A. H., 67, 65, 187.
Sandoval, 130.

Sands, T. J., 180, 246, 426.
Sanford, L. V., 518.
Sanquhar Sultan, 570.
Sarcasm, 486.

Satin Royal, 431.

Sayre, Paul e 291.

Sayre, W. J., 120, 180, 288.
Schoepflin, in ML, 120, 529,
Scholz Bros., 238.

Scholz, C. A., 227, 238.
Schwartz, R. E., 622.
Scofield, Frank, 145.

Scotch Cumberland, 200, 273.

Seotch Lord, 364.

Scotland’s Charm, 100.

Scott Jr., 119.

Scottish Chief, 71, 72, 90.
Scottish Emperor, 75, 76, 107.
Scottish Prince, 122.

Scottish Viceroy, 326.
Searchlight Bloom, 353.
Seaton, John A., 136.

Secret Archer, 110, 120.
Secret Airdrie, 217.

Secret Baron, 326.

Secret Hampton, 62%,

Secret Prince, 379.

Secret Robin, 377, 378, 384, 500,
Secret Sentry, 528.

Secret Sultan 2d, 471.
Secret’s Sultan, 300.

Select Goods, 619.

Sempstress, 497.

Seyb Bros. & French, 550.
Shafer, E. C., 463.

Shakers, The, 20.

Shannon, Harry, 312.

Shannon Will Marm, Sale, 27.
Shannon Til TWerd, 34.
Shelton, Prof, E. M., 70; 71,

174.

Sherwood, John W., 411.

Shorthorn Breeders by Counties,
197.

Shorthorn Cattle, Sanders, 187.

Shorthornus, Disposition of, 9, 10.

Shorthornus, irst in’ Northwest
Kansas, 51.

Shorthorus, First for Barton
County, 45,

Shorthorns for Baby Beef, 15,
289),

Shorthorus for Beef and Milk,
BI, ey. WO

Shorthormis in Kansas, 1857 to
1880, 20.

Shorthorns in Kansas, 1880 to
1920, G0,

Shorthorns, Introducing, 5,

ae Minor Operations,

oO.

Soran on Beet Market, 12
13, 16.

Shorthorn Organizations, 174.

Shorthorus, Record Price, 7, s

Shorthorn Review, 1810 to 185
1s.

Shorthorn Show 8. EK. Kansas,
496.

Shorthorn Show Steers, 15, 16.

Shorthorns, Universal Adapt-
ability, 10.

Shorthorn World, The, 188.

Shorthorn Pedigrees, 149-173.
What is a pedigree?, 149.
The seller’s duty, 149.
Marly pedigrees, 151.
Karly controversies, 152.
Unfashionable crosses 1850

to 1890, 154.

Wnglish Herd Book rule, 156,

Scotch, 156.

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Origin of term, Scotch, 157.

Breeders of Scotch cattle,
158.

Seoteh Shorthorns, 159,

Seotch stands for a type, 160,

st, 161.

Seoteh or Seoteh topped, 161,
Straight Seotch, 164,
Outerosses, 165,

  
 

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Mads and discriminations, 166,
Prue worth only in merit, 167,
Paving high prices, 168.
Where the danger lies, 169,
What is a good pedigree?
169,
Value of the pedigree, 170.
Plain bred, the term, 172.
A HISTORY OF SIHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 645

Shotwell, 8. L., 53.

Shulz, O. E. R., 351.

Sickles, J. W. & Sons, 322.

Silk Goods, 280, 407,

Silver Dale, 526.

Silverheel, 521.

Silvermine, 110, 111, 122, 606,
607.

Silver Plate, 223,

Simonson, Walter, 381,

Simpson, V. O., 533.

Sir Charming 4th, 128,

Sir Hdelweiss, 508.

Sister Susie, Imp., 446,

Slavens, Dr. H. G., 135, 205.

Sriith, By cy, Psi.

Smith, BE. C. & Son, 450.

Smith, Rousseau & Son, 351,
565.

Sni-A-Bar Farm, 12, 37, 177.

Snodgrass, W. J., 119.

Snowhall, 367.

Snowflake, 116.

Snowstorm, 249.

Snyder, Col. John D., 186.

mobba, Henry, 215,

Sobke, Joseph J., 461,

Soil Fertility,

Sowers, A. G., 287.

Speneer, ©. A., 181.

Spexarth, B. J.,

Spiraea, 79, 84,

Springbrook Farm, 596,

St. Albans, Imp., 45.

St Clair, 74.

St. Valentine 12th, 135,

Staley, C. G., 212.

Standish, R. K., 297.

Stanley, Miss M. V., 181, 287,
376, 500.

Star Goods, 108, 597, 599.

Star Shorthorns, 174.

State Assn. Sale, 176, 177, 178.

Stegelin, Hd, 391,

Stephenson, H. ©., 119, 120,
529,

Stevens, J. Frank, 212.

Steward, Arthur, 404.

Stewart, Dr, R. A., 127, 550.

Stockstill, J. B., 115.

Stodder, J. F., 107, 109, 119,
280. BSuL

Stodder, J. F., Dispersion, 603.

On

576,

,

Stone, J, C, Jr, 63, 128,

Stone, T. F., 441.

Stratton, H. a 49.

Stunkel, E. L., 331, 597.

Stunkel, Pema 102,

Stunkel Sale, 285.

Sullivan Bros., 210.

Sultan, 569.

Sultan of Anoka, 552,

Sultan Seal, 526.

Sultan’s Champion, 559,

Sultan’s Marvel, 619.

Sultan’s Pride, 334, 552.

Sultan’s Robin, 218.

Sultan’s Rose, 142.

Sumner County, 6383.

Sumyblink 9th, Imp., 218.

Superior Rosedale, 400.

Supies, Col., 86.

Supreme, 278.

Swain Bros. & Bates, 52.

Sweet Carmine, 301.

Sweet Fragrance, Imp., 280.

Sweet Mistletoe, 108, 490.

Swinney, I. L., 497.

Swinton Liberty, Imp., 227.

Sycamore Chunk, 602.

Sycamore Marshal, 433.

Sycamore Spiraea, 486.

Sycamore Prince, 229.

Symuns Bros., 16.

Syringia, 108.

Taylor, A. H. & Son, 388.

Taylor, B. L. & Son, 465, 468.

Taylor, GC. W.,. 105, 328.

Taylor E.. E., 256.

Taylor, J. H. & Sons, 78, 124,
335.

Taylor, John, 105.

Tebo Lawn, 216.

Tennyson, A. A., 130, 232, 539.

Tennyson, D., 130.

Thisler, O, L,, 124,

Thistletop, Imp., 71, 90, 91.

Thomas, G. O., 390.

Thomas, Jameison & Mitchell,
111, 112, 115, 610.

Thomason, Alex, 505.

Thomas Young Marys, 111.

Thompson, J. E., 115.

Them, J. G., 309, 380.

Thorne, Sam’l, 19.

Mppim, Ax a, V1,
646 A THSTORY OF SHORTILORNS IN KANSAS

Tipton, S. 8., 20.

Tomson Bros., 75, 117, 177,
P40, 274, 345, 396, 404, 538
554, 576.

Tomson, James, 92, 95, 181,

21,
Tomson, John, R., 176, 177,

 

 

Tomson, T. K. & Sons, 74, 88,

96, 128, 210,
Towne & Boomer, 49.
Townsend, A. I., 438.
Treadway, John W., 124.
Trimmell, R. H., 219.
Troopers Model, 516.
Troudner, C. L., 533.
True Goods, 255, 515.
True, J. F., 127, 128
True Sultan, 366, 3
394 .
Trundle, L. A., 405.
Trusine, Mr. and Mrs. Vint,
428.
Tyeoon, 27, 46.
Types Goods, 299, 300.
Unger, John, 467.
Ury Dale, 482.
Vail, Geo., 19.

Vaile, H. M., Importation, 489.

Vail & Scott,

Valley Champion, 114.
Vandal, 105, 330.

Van Horn G., 44.

Van Niece, D. C., 132.
Vansell, M. C. & Sons, 259.
Vaughn, Geo. D., 609.
Velvet Type, 120.
Vietor Archer, 127.
Vietor Beaver, 616.
Vietor Chief, 545
Vietor Gloster, 502,
Victor Marshal, 45
Vietor Orange, ie 27, ‘597, 605.
Vietor Sultan, 530, 53
Vietor Swinton, 207.
Vietoria’s Baron 2d, 557.
Vietoria Colony, 40.
Victoria’s Emblem, 609.
Village Alderman, 244.
Village Boy, 256.

Village Champion, 293.
Village Emblem, 432.
Village Goldfinder, 452.
Village Heir, 330.

illaye Marshal, 582, 585.

illage Master, 363.

illage President, 521.

illage Rex, 554.

Village Victor, 470.

Village Victoria 2d, 227.

Villagers Champion, 601.

Villagers Magnet, 317, 318.

Waddell, H. J., 429.

Wales & Young, 537,

Walker, R. R. & Sons, 539.

Walker, W. J., 439.

Walnut Duke, 441, 442.

Walnut Type, 223.

Walton, Fred, 475, 560.

Warfield, Wm., 61.

Watkins Bros., 501.

Watkins, G. T., 55.

Watson, R. C, & Sons, 623,

Watts, Warren, 76, 303.

Waynant, J. W., 399.

Webb, R. E., 596.

Wedd, A. E., 427.

Weddle, ©. os 208, 450.

Weisner, W. J., 574.

Weiss, Fred L., 16.

Wempe, ©. H., 519.

Wenrich, Otto B., 608.

Westfall, E. H., 180.

Westlawn, Blanehe, 228, 238.

White, ©. H., 181, 305, 401,
118.

White, D., 545,

White oe 111, 610.

White Hope, 387, 467.

White, W. 8, 87, 174.

Whitehall Sultan, 165.

Whitewater Stock Farm, 274.

Wichita Sale, 267.

Williams Bros., 101.

Williams, C. G., 534.

Williams, C. H. & Son, 511.

Williams & Householder, 64,
102, P22.

Williams, R. & Son, 56.

Willis, J. D., 164.

Willson, T. M., 180, 596.

Wilson, Andrew, 27.

Wilson, FL P., 466.

Wilson, Frank W., 477.

Wilson, Kenneth, 869.

Wilson, W. W., 246.

Wiltse, Mait, 624.

 

 

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Winifred Maid 4th, 477.
Wischmeyer, Wm., 405.
Wistful, 484.

Wiswell, A. L., 427.
Withers, A. L., 446.
Wittry, G., 213.

Wohlschlegel, D. & Sons, 571,

383.
Wolf, C. F. & Son, 100, 107.
Wolfe Bros., 208.

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Wooddale Chieftain, 125, 332.
Wooderson, L. A., 607.
Woodford, J. E., o4,
Woodside, W. B., 49.
Woodson, Wm., 336.

Works, Warren W., 201.
Wornall, T. J. & Sons, 329.
Yeager, Frank H., 291.

Yost, John A., 412.

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