58 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



thing better than medium cattle. The Lackeys 

 were quite good advertisers and enjoyed a liberal 

 patronage. Another Marion county herd of the 

 same time was that of John Kraft who bought in 

 Canada the bull, Lord Barrington 36022 and the 

 cow, Lady Aileen 2d. The records show only 

 one heifer produced from this cow. 



W. C. Bancroft of Solomon Rapids was one of 

 the first breeders, if not the first, in Mitchell 

 county. In 1877 he bought of K L. Chaf f ee of 

 Manhattan, a lot of cows that were sired by the 

 excellent bulls, Oxford Wiley, imp. Clarendon, 

 1st Grand Duke of Kansas and Eed Wiley, a son 

 of Oxford Wiley. The general opinion is that 

 the Chaf fee cattle were a very desirable lot. 



At one of the numerous sales held by J. C. & 

 George Hamilton in Kansas City, T. J. Peters 

 of Osage county bought three cows. Two were 

 by Duke of jtSToxubee and one by Earl of Barring- 

 ton, both well known and very popular sires. 

 This purchase was made in 1879 and Mr. Peters 

 continued his operations for a few years. 



E. R. Brown of Pottawatomie county bred 

 Shorthorns from about 1872 to 1880. A peculiar 

 feature of his work was that he recorded no 

 cattle earlier than vol. 20. 



In 1879 Geo. T. Poison of Riley county bought 

 four cows from the well known and then pop- 

 ular herds of A. M. Winslow & Sons and Wil- 

 liam Stevenson & Sons. Before the end of 



