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 conclu- 

 sively that his Shorthorns had been a good source 

 of income. 



