200 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



sized, smooth, beefy young things were secured. 



Mr. Knox has recently bought the tried sire, 

 Scotch Cumberland. He is by Cumberland's 

 Type, the most sensational American show bull 

 of the times, thirty-seven first premiums being- 

 claimed for him in thirty-seven showings at the 

 biggest shows. Scotch Cumberland had been used 

 by John Eegier for three years and sired there a 

 very attractive line of calves that are growing 

 into big cows with a promising future. Valuable 

 additions to the female end of the herd were 

 made by purchasing at Independence in 1919 

 several of the choicest cows from J. H. Hoi- 

 comb's excellent consignment, and at the spring- 

 sale the highest priced cow sold fell to his bid- 

 ding. Mr. Knox is in a position to carry out 

 plans that will make his herd one among the best 

 in southern Kansas. 



J. H. Holcomb, Humboldt. Working his way 

 up from agent's assistant in a small Iowa town 

 to division freight agent of a trans-continental 

 railroad, then at fifty years of age investing his 

 savings in a choice Allen county farm, tells part 

 of Mr. Holcomb 's life story. The rest has been 

 written by his work on the farm and with the 

 Shorthorns since 1900. Mr. Holcomb 's first pur- 

 chases were fourteen high-grade cows from J. H. 

 Bayer followed by four pure bred heifers and a 

 bull. Within a few years he discovered he did 

 not have the quality he needed so he sold them 



