A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



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West. The Guild herd while not large was quite 

 favorably known for a good many years, but 

 probably few if any Shorthorns descended from 

 Mr. Guild's breeding could now be found. 



First Shorthorns in Northwest Kansas. 

 Simpson Plinn's were the first Shorthorns for 

 the extreme northwest part of Kansas. The herd 

 consisted of two bulls and three heifers recorded 

 as calved in 1880. He also recorded a cow bred 

 by D. M. Plinn of Iowa, from which it is inferred 

 that Simpson Flinn of Rawlins county was of the 

 well known Iowa family of that name. 



GWENDOLINE 79th 217427 



With a record of 5796.1 pounds of milk as a two-year-old, 

 the Kansas Agricultural College. 



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