A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 63 



fitting that the account of the period from 1880 

 to the present be begun with the story of the 

 achievements of W. A. Harris. 



It was in the fall of 1880 or a little later, that 

 J. C. Stone, Jr. of Leavenworth had bought a lot 

 of bull calves of W. E. Simmes of Kentucky. 

 They were all the popular Bates, crossed or 

 straight Bates breeding, except one, a red, calved 

 December 3, 1879, called Golden Drop of Hill- 

 hurst. He was by the fashionably bred 4th Duke 

 of Hillhurst and his dam was by the equally pop- 

 ular 7th Earl of Oxford, but his grandam was 

 a plainly bred cow, Wastell's Golden Drop 4th 

 bred in Scotland by one Sylvester Campbell. This 

 calf was not considered especially desirable and 

 Mr. Stone may have taken him in order to close 

 the deal. In any event it is not likely that he 

 took him from choice. 



Col. Harris saw this young bull and, asserting 

 that independence which led him to buy a red and 

 white bull while everything except dark red was 

 being tabooed, and a roan cow when roans were 

 not wanted in good herds, he bought this bull, 

 Golden Drop of Hillhurst. Mr. Sanders says 

 it was through this bull that Mr. Harris became 

 favorably inclined toward Scotch cattle. At any 

 rate, after a year's ownership of this fellow, 75 

 per cent Bates and 25 per cent Scotch, he decided 

 to look for a Scotch bull and at the sale held by 

 J. H. Kissenger of Missouri on May 3, 1882, he 



