A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 129 



horn history as the man who brought Golden 

 Drop of Hillhurst to Kansas and sold him to 

 Col. Harris. 



H. E. Hayes of Johnson county for a number 

 of years kept a choice collection of the breed 

 which was dispersed at public sale in 1908. Lord 

 Banff 2d, a son of imp. Lord Banff, was in ser- 

 vice practically all the time the herd was main- 

 tained and near the close of its existence Baron 

 Marr, an excellent son of Cumberland's Last out 

 of imp. Lady Marr, was purchased. The calves of 

 this bull were of outstanding quality. The best 

 of the females went into good herds and Baron 

 Marr went to the Deming Ranch at Oswego 

 where, after a year's use, he was killed by light- 

 ning. The cow sold in the State Association 

 sale, June 1920, at Manhattan for $3900 was out 

 of a daughter of Baron Marr purchased in dam 

 by Prof. R. J. Kinzer while head of the Depart- 

 ment of Animal Husbandry of Kansas State 

 Agricultural College. 



0. E. Morse & Sons were among the early 

 breeders in Linn county and both the sons, T. W. 

 Morse and S. T. Morse, still sometimes talk like 

 Shorthorns breeders. Their herd, though never 

 large, was a credit to the breed and was dis- 

 persed because the junior members of the firm 

 decided not to follow farming. It was a real 

 factor for good while in existence and was closed 

 out at public sale about 1910, local breeders 



