A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 49 



Basil Duke 4th, a son of Basil Duke 6434, a bull 

 of wide reputation in Henry Laramore's Gallo- 

 way county, Missouri, herd. Two of the cows 

 were by Basil Duke. In 1880 these cows were 

 sold to W. B. Woodside of Rose and at Mr. 

 Woodside's dispersion sale in 1893 a four-year- 

 old daughter of one of the cows was sold to Sam- 

 uel Kahl of Buffalo, at the high price of $50. 

 Mr. Kahl bred some excellent cattle from this 

 cow and the good herd of P. A. Dumond of Yates 

 Center comes from the Kahl cows. 



Towne & Boomer. This Brown county firm 

 began breeding Shorthorns about 1877. They 

 owned, among others, the imported cow Charlotte 

 4th by Duke of Knowlmere and a lot of cows 

 sired by the Princess bull, Claud Wetherby, pur- 

 chased about 1878 by G. W. Glick. (See Glick 

 sketch) . It is quite likely that Claud Wetherby 

 was received by Mr. Glick in exchange for the 

 bull Gustavus 17276, which bull Towne & Boom- 

 er began using at the same time that Mr. Glick 

 began using Claud Wetherby. The herd did not 

 assume more than local proportions and while 

 consisting of splendid cattle, was like so many 

 others lost in the change from Bates to Scotch in 

 the desperately trying times of the middle and 

 latter eighties. 



A Wide Range of Purchase. Late in 1875 H. 

 A. Stratton of Lyon county bought the bull 

 Prince 27484 bred by A. C. Funk of Illinois. 



