106 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



Dawdy and Walter Lattimer came to Kansas 

 and took charge. There were about ninety head 

 of Bates cattle on the farm, headed by 53d Duke 

 of Airdrie, which were sold at public sale in 

 Kansas City the next spring at an average of 

 more than $200 with a top price of $800. They 

 bought and sold a number of herds, using the 

 Glick farm as a base for operations until 1901 

 when they removed to Arlington in Atchison 

 county. Walter Lattimer died in 1902 and after 

 his death D. L. Dawdy handled the business 

 individually. 



H. M. Hill, Montgomery County. It was not 

 intended by Mr. Hill's parents that he should 

 develop into a Shorthorn breeder. Some of his 

 boyhood friends have told me of his early edu- 

 cation and training for the legal profession and 

 that the influence of an old Frenchman who kept 

 some good grade Shorthorns weighed more heav- 

 ily than did the ambitions of fond parents. How- 

 ever that may be, the young man, after having 

 been a short time in charge of the family bank- 

 ing interests at Laf ontaine, transferred his scene 

 of action to a big tract of land, now known as 

 Sycamore Springs- Stock Farm, and in 1893 he 

 bought a lot of Shorthorns from T. O. Ford of 

 Liberty. In the same year he bought eight heif- 

 ers of Senator Benedict. They were by the Wil- 

 liams Bros.' show bull, Dr. Primrose and by 

 Banker 4th, Mr. Benedict's well known sire. 



