234 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



Victress 5th, was bred by W. A. Betteridge. She 

 is one of the thick, smooth kind with much depth 

 of body and stands on short legs. She is a fine 

 prospect as a breeder and comes from the best 

 ancestry found among western Shorthorns. Her 

 sire, Cumberland Dale, is by Masterpiece by 

 Cumberland's Last out of an Avondale dam. Her 

 dam is by the famous old Victorious that round- 

 ed out an unusual career for Mr. Gentry and Mr. 

 Betteridge and her second dam is by Lavender 

 Viceroy, the best known son of Lavender Vis- 

 count. Lady Avon 4th comes from the Hoplw 

 Stock Farm. She has much size and smoothness 

 and is in every way desirable. Her sire is the D. 

 R. Hanna bred Eastlawn Champion, a grandson 

 of two famous bulls, Newton Crystal and Vil- 

 lager. Her dam carries the Whitehall Sultan 

 blood through the well known Fond Memory and 

 her grandam is by a son of Avondale out of a 

 daughter of imp. Royal Girl. The bull being used 

 is Peerless Goods, a very straight, smooth grand- 

 son of Ruberta's Goods. His dam is by a son of 

 Snowflake, the sire of Ringmaster, and his 

 grandson is by Af ton Clipper, a son of Sweet Af- 

 ton, own sister to Avondale. 



D. L. Dawdy, Arlington. Mr. Dawdy has 

 been in the Shorthorn business all his life. The 

 occasion of his coming to Kansas from Illinois 

 was the purchase of Governor Glick's farm and 

 herd. (Part I.) The herd in July 1919 numbered 



