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mals in the blue-grass country, but he faulted 

 most of the Southern herds of that date as 

 wanting in substance and flesh. Now and then 

 he found a heifer that suited him fairly well, 

 and in such cases was always willing to pay a 

 liberal price. Early in his career as a breeder 

 he had secured the excellent red bull Golden 

 Drop of Hillhurst 39120, bred by Col. W. E. 

 Simmes of Bourbon Co., Ky., by whom he was 

 sold to J. C. Stone Jr. of Leavenworth, Kan. 

 This bull had two Bates crosses (4th Duke of 

 Hillhurst 21509 and 7th Earl of Oxford 9985) 

 on top of the Scotch-bred Wastell's Golden 

 Drop 4th by Sir Christopher (22895). He pos- 

 sessed the finish, style and character common 

 to the Bates tribes, together with more than 

 the usual amount of flesh shown by the latter- 

 day representatives of that blood, and proved 

 a useful sire. When it became necessary to 

 secure a successor to him a careful but unsuc- 

 cessful search was made for a bull in the State 

 of Kentucky. This was in the early spring of 

 1882. On May 3 of that year Mr. j! H. Kissin- 

 ger of Missouri made a public sale at which he 

 offered several head of Cruickshank cattle that 

 he had purchased a short time before in Canada. 

 Favorably predisposed toward the Scotch blood, 

 as a result of his use of the Golden Drop bull 

 above mentioned, and firm in the belief that 

 Short-horn breeders generally must pay more 



