56 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



It was toward the close of the seventies that 

 M. V. Davis and J. W. Martin, both of Labette 

 county, each bought a number of cows from the 

 Piper herd. Their breeding operations contin- 

 ued in a limited way for several years. 



K. Williams & Son of Lincoln county were 

 breeders from 1872 until early in the eighties. 

 The herd was not large and was little known 

 outside the immediate vicinity. 



Levi Dumbauld was a prominent breeder from 

 1874 to 1885. During these years he maintained 

 a good Shorthorn herd on his Lyon county farm. 

 The territory around his home furnished a 

 market for his young bulls and a female now and 

 then. He used extensively and probably for too 

 long, a bull, King of the Prairie, bought of A. C. 

 Funk of Illinois. 



Although P. McHardy of Emporia bred a few 

 Shorthorns he can not be properly classed as a 

 breeder. He was rather a dealer who bought and 

 sold cattle in large numbers and of varying 

 quality to suit the purchaser. Later he trans- 

 ferred his activities to the Galloways and became 

 a leading promoter of that breed in the early and 

 middle eighties. 



Two Marion county herds which existed from 

 1873 to 1888, producing a good many Shorthorns 

 from which a few cattle now living are descended, 

 were those of A. H. and H. H. Lackey. There 

 is nothing to indicate that they produced any- 



