102 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



After Williams Bros, had disposed of the herd, 

 J. F. Williams went to the Fort Worth stock- 

 yards and in 1895 E. M. Williams entered the 

 employ of Col. Casey, being in charge of the Tebo 

 Lawn show herd until his death in 1898 or 1899. 



Mr. Householder for at least one season owned 

 imp. Cupbearer, the grand champion bull of 

 America. Details as to the connection of Will- 

 iams Bros, with the exhibition of this bull are 

 meager. Householder, himself, bred little stock 

 that ever found its way to record. 



Henry Stunkel, Sumner County. Mr. Stun- 

 kel's first Shorthorns were purchased from Nov- 

 inger & Cain of Missouri in 1890. The lot con- 

 sisted of fifteen head of nicely bred cows with 

 some infusion of Scotch blood. Two cows were 

 secured soon afterward from Joseph and H. C. 

 Duncan. What was probably for some years the 

 largest herd in Kansas was built up from these 

 seventeen cows. 



Mr. Stunkel's methods were to buy the best 

 bulls he could get, to raise the heifers cheaply, 

 and to keep them, and to feed the young bulls 

 heavily and sell them at profitable prices. The 

 result was having a cow herd not so attractive 

 as their breeding would warrant and as one 

 would naturally expect to see ; but the use of high 

 class bulls made them good producers. This 

 system was kept up for fifteen years and Mr. 

 Stunkel at his death was a wealthy man with 



