A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 35 



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 Shorthorns 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. S. Slater of Massachu- 



