A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



bought from James McNeill, Spur, Tex., some 25 

 registered young bulls, which came from a set of 

 Armour cows bought by Mr. McNeill some ten years 

 after the Hart purchase, and from which we were 

 able to select several outstanding herd bulls. 



In the meantime, we are still using from Dr. 

 Logan's Young Beau Brummel several herd bulls 

 which were preceded by other bulls from his herd 

 carrying the blood of Saint Grove, a bull by St. Louis 

 and out of a The Grove 3d cow, both bought from 

 Armour. We bought his entire bull calf crop for 

 two years, selecting several herd bulls for our regis- 

 tered herd, and on several occasions bought Gudgell 

 & Simpson bulls and bulls by Majestic, imported by 

 Kirk B. Armour, with the net result that we secured 

 a distinct Armour Anxiety combination. So again 

 my chickens have come home to roost. 



When Mr. Armour bought Meadow Park, a farm 

 south of Kansas City, from the Wornall estate, and 

 moved everything from the Excelsior Springs farm, 

 "Billy" Cummlngs moved out there, going to his 

 home near Lawrence, Kans., for week-ends. I was 

 married in 1899; Mrs. Hastings and I moved out 

 during the summers, and "Billy's" reminiscences are 

 still a joy which we go over quite often. 



Meadow Park was a part of a famous battle 

 ground during the Price raid In the Civil War. I do 

 not remember whether that engagement was the same 

 as the battle at Westport, where bullet holes still 



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