364 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



Claude Lovett, Neal.* Mr. Lovett is a gradu- 

 ate from the Department of Agronomy in the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College. He has an 

 excellent farm that produces alfalfa and has 

 plenty of limestone pasture. He began farming 

 on his own account four years ago and has kept 

 Shorthorns since that time. His first purchase 

 was made at H. E. Huber's sale in 1916 where he 

 secured two choice heifers from which he has 

 made good sales of bulls. A yearling heifer de- 

 scended from this purchase was fitted for show 

 and won first honors at several fairs. Sub- 

 sequent additions were made to the herd at 

 strong prices, a lot of four heifers having been 

 purchased in one sale at an average of $700. 



Taken as a whole, the breeding of this herd is 

 most acceptable and includes some of the 

 popular blood lines of the day. The individual 

 merit of the foundation stock is such as to make 

 if fit for a real Shorthorn herd. The bull in use 

 at the time of my visit was Scotch Lord, a splen- 

 did, big, beefy roan, bred by J. G. Bobbins & Son, 

 sired by Lord Avondale, one of America's most 

 popular bulls, whose get have been selling for ex- 

 ceedingly high prices. The dam of Scotch Lord 

 represents two great bulls, Choice Goods and 

 Spicy Robin and his second dam is imp. Golden 

 Gem by the Marr bred Scotch Thistle. This bull 

 is a breeder of heifers of pronounced excellence 



* Station, Tonovay; telephone, Eureka. 



