158 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



selling value on their product. It had doubtless 

 come to their ears that their cattle were " plain 

 bred" and that it would be an outrage to cross 

 bulls from their herds with cows bred up by the 

 use of the unf ashionably bred Bates bulls. Un- 

 dismayed by taunts and threats of failure, these 

 old Scotchmen and their few disciples in 

 America pursued the even tenor of their ways. 



At the critical time when the masses of the 

 fashionably bred Shorthorns lacked everything 

 worth while except a pedigree of ancient but 

 fallen greatness and were in danger of being 

 cast aside by the Angus and Herefords as un- 

 worthy of being perpetuated, these plain bred 

 bulls from Scotland, thrown together indiscrim- 

 inately, according to the devotees of fashion, and 

 coming from the edge of the jumping-off place 

 of the universe, appeared to rescue the breed. 

 Possessing every essential for the work except a 

 popular pedigree, they wrought a regeneration 

 in American and English Shorthorns such as 

 had not been dreamed of before. First under the 

 name of Cruickshank, the acknowledged leader 

 of the clan, and later as Scotch cows and Scotch 

 bulls they did the work so rapidly and effectual- 

 ly that within less than ten years they became 

 the aristocracy of the Shorthorn world. And so 

 the term " Scotch" became one to conjure with, 

 for it represented a type of cattle superior to 

 anything yet seen. How the names of these old 



