74 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



It soon became evident that the Board of 

 Regents had made a serious mistake when it 

 issued the order that no pure bred live stock 

 should be kept on the college farm, and Professor 

 Cottrell was finally permitted in 1901 to pur- 

 chase pure bred representatives of several breeds 

 of live stock. In this purchase were three Short- 

 horns. The same year a Shorthorn heifer 

 was donated to the college by T. K. Tomson & 

 Sons of Dover. 



Professor Cottrell resigned early in 1902 and 

 the live stock work was placed in charge of a 

 dairy husbandman. This arrangement continued 

 until September 1905 when a separate depart- 

 ment of Animal Husbandry was created and R. 

 J. Kiiizer placed in charge as Professor of 

 Animal Husbandry. The growth of the depart- 

 ment under Professor Kinzer was little short of 

 marvelous. The Shorthorn herd he built up 

 from 1905 to 1911 without any appropriation 

 from the legislature was one of which any breed- 

 er w r ould have been proud. 



The first Shorthorn bull used was Ravenswood 

 Admiration, a son of Lavender Viscount out of 

 a granddaughter of Cumberland 50626. He was 

 followed by Lavender Viceroy 223936, another 

 son of Lavender Viscount out of a daughter of 

 Baron Lavender 2d 72610. One of his sons, 

 Orange Lavender 295670, dropped on the college 

 farm in 1906, was the next bull used. St. Clair 



