38 A HISTORY OP SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



Illinois and Missouri breeders, and of two bulls 

 from J. H. Spears & Son of Illinois. Occasional 

 purchases were made later and the heifers were 

 nearly all retained for several years. Measured 

 by numbers this grew to be one of the state's 

 leading herds but the proprietor made little ef- 

 fort to keep up with the procession until the 

 hard times of the eighties rendered all efforts 

 of no avail. 



Late in 1883 or early in 1884 Mr. White bought 

 three cows of Mr. Spears. He also bought a 

 daughter of imp. Duke of Hazelcote 19th from 

 S. C. Duncan, and a daughter of Loudon Duke 

 6th from J. G. Cowan & Son. The same year fe- 

 males were added to the herd from the Illinois 

 herds of Wm. Stevenson & Sons and E. M. Gof f . 

 Liberal use had been made of the bull Cherub 2d 

 16470, a son of the $6000 imp. Cherub and imp. 

 Lady Highthorne. Cato 25866, a Kentucky bred 

 bull of only ordinary descent, was also used 

 freely. Mr. White next began using Mazurka 

 Duke 52758, a fashionably bred Bates bull from 

 Bow Park by the celebrated 4th Duke of Clar- 

 ence ; Eoyal Duke of Oakland, a bull of his own 

 breeding, by Cherub 2d; and Emperor 62667, a 

 Kentucky bred son of 2d Duke of Xalapa. In 

 1887 he secured from the Luther Adams import- 

 ation the Duthie bred Lord Haddow and began 

 using him at once. At the time Lord Haddov 

 was bought, good cows weighing from 1000 to 



