32 A HISTORY OP SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



Shorthorns well established, but not numerous in 

 the state. This date may be safely fixed, how- 

 ever, as the beginning of a period of expansion. 

 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, about fifty females, were what is 

 generally known a^ 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. Included 

 among his early purchases was the bull London 

 Duke 13th by 5th Duke of Geneva. This was one 

 of E. G. Bedford's famous Loudon 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 great- 

 est prestige. Mr. Crane was not satisfied. He 

 began operations on a scale attracting general 

 attention. The 23d Duke of Airdrie and the 



