A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 39 



1200 pounds could hardly be sold for as much 

 as $15 a head. Many changed hands at less. 

 Had it not been for this condition Mr. White 

 might have been able to overcome the losses he 

 had sustained by sticking to the lost hope of 

 Bates supremacy, and to retrieve his fortune. 

 As it was, like many others, he failed to realize 

 on his investments. The last cattle of his breed- 

 ing were calved in 1890. 



Mr. White was a man of pleasing personality. 

 He was president of the short-lived Kansas State 

 Shorthorn Breeders Association, an organization 

 that like many of its members, suspended oper- 

 ations in about 1888. 



Leavenworth's First Importation. In 1872 

 Oespigny & Seiver imported from England the 

 roan bull Duke of Hazelcote 19th bred by Col. 

 Kingscote, the roan cow Listless and the red cow 

 Likely, both bred by Thomas Morris of Maus- 

 amore Court. Both cows were carrying calves 

 at the time of their importation. Listless pro- 

 duced a red bull calf Lord Lytton 17575 and 

 Likely, a roan heifer named Lovely, vol. 13-743. 

 These calves were sold to Matthew Ryan of Lea- 

 venworth. Duke of Hazelcote 19th and the two 

 cows went to S. C. Duncan, the well known breed- 

 er in Clay county, Missouri. Mr. Ryan recorded 

 no produce from his purchase until 1881 when a 

 large number of calves and yearlings went on 

 record as bred by him. They were nearly all 



