474 A HISTORY' OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



had been seeing young bulls left to shift and to 

 fight flies and this one that had an owner who 

 did the rustling was elegant in comparison. 



Mr. Oneill has been breeding Shorthorns for 

 six years. He has been successful in produc- 

 ing quite good ones but his greatest success lay 

 in a deal made in 1919 whereby he acquired ten 

 young cows bred by E. H. Abraham. (See Abra- 

 ham sketch.) I saw a number of these cows and 

 they are just the kind the experienced man would 

 select if he were looking for a lot of prospective 

 breeding cows. They are to be the basis of future 

 operations. In their ancestry they have the 

 benefit of the splendid lines of bulls used in the 

 Abraham herd, prominent among which are 

 Diamond Victor, whose sire was sold by Tomson 

 Bros, for $2000 in the days when such sales were 

 almost sensational, and whose dam, Daisy Queen 

 by Barmpton Knight was a Western state fair 

 and American Royal champion. Another bull of 

 national reputation, entering into the immediate 

 ancestry of these cows, is Bessie's Heir by Or- 

 ange Viscount, the sire of Searchlight and out of 

 imp. Bessie 51st, the dam of White Goods. (See 

 S. D, Mitchell sketch.) 



Mr. Oneill has been equally fortunate in get- 

 ting a herd bull. Lavender Search is a remark- 

 ably smooth, even, well finished fellow, with a 

 very deep body on unusually short legs. He has 

 proved a breeder of good stock and has inherited 



