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A HISTORY OP SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



one of selection for individual merit and quality 

 of immediate ancestry. It required only a com- 

 mander-in-cliief to rally the people of America 

 to the standard of right thinking and it fell to 

 Kansas to furnish the man, W. A. Harris of Lin- 

 wood. 



THIS is WHAT 



THE SCOTCH 



CEOSS DID TO 



AMEEICAN 



SHOETHOENS 



W. A. Harris. Col. W. . A. Harris, soldier, 

 statesman and leading American breeder of 

 Shorthorns, was a shining example of a man who 

 could have accumulated great wealth but who un- 

 selfishly gave himself to others. As a breeder he 

 stands alone in that he dared to stem the tide and 

 dared to do what seemed best at the risk of in- 

 curring the disapproval of his fellow breeders. 

 A born leader, Col. Harris succeeded in accom- 

 plishing on his Leavenworth county farm, what 

 no other breeder in America since his day has 

 accomplished. What Amos Cruickshank was to 

 Scotland, Col. Harris was to the country west of 

 the Mississippi and especially to Kansas. It is 



