A HISTORY OP SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 43 



cattle were sold to the late Conrad Kreuger who 

 for years had been one of his employees. 



In 1877 John Bowman of the Victoria Colony 

 imported from the herd of R. Jefferson, Eng- 

 land, the red and white cow Proud Butterfly, in 

 calf to British Boy (30597) . The produce was a 

 heifer recorded as Pearl Butterfly. Bred again 

 to the Crane bull, Lord of the Lake (see Crane 

 sketch) she produced the bull Royal Moresby. 

 Mr. Bowman had also bought of Albert Crane 

 Cinderella 17th, that with her daughter Second 

 Cinderella of Moresby, was sold to T. J. McClel- 

 land of Haynesville, Missouri. 



A Good Foundation. Archibald Kerr laid the 

 foundation for his Greenwood county herd in 

 about 1876. Mr. Kerr was an Englishman who 

 maintained a large establishment and spent mon- 

 ey extravagantly. Though not a member of the 

 Victoria Colony his business and social relations 

 brought him in close contact with its members. 

 Among other Shorthorns purchased from George 

 Grant of the colony were imp. Mobe 8th and her 

 heifer calf by imp. Goggles. He also purchased 

 from Albert Crane a bull, Lord Hamlet 33072, a 

 combination of Bates and Booth blood he having 

 been by Lord Bates 30th and out of Miss Wiley 

 2d by Star of the Realm. From W. T. Benson 

 of Canada he secured the cow Daisy Eyebright 

 vol. 12 and her heifer calf Josephine by imp. 

 Tambour came from John Snell's Sons of On- 



