A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 621 



Gif ford's good son of Lord Mayor. Mr. Ostlund 

 is acting wisely in not overlooking milking 

 quality in his cows. 



WILSON COUNTY 



M. J. Roney, Benedict. Some years ago in 

 one of the Fredonia sales H. M. Hill sold an ex- 

 cellent lot of roan heifers and he also included 

 Ingle Lad, (see H. M. Hill sketch) the sire of 

 nearly all his young stock. Mr. Roney was the 

 high bidder for the bull and through this pur- 

 chase became known as a man with a good bull at 

 the head of his herd. The heifers by Ingle Lad 

 developed into first-class cows, all good milkers 

 and good breeders and those in Mr. Roney 's herd 

 are no exception to this rule. One of these cows 

 is out of a granddaughter of imp. Craibstone 

 Shepherdess, the dam of the well known Craib- 

 stone. Another is out of a cow by Field Marshall 

 by Marshall Abbotsburn, a son of Mary Abbots- 

 burn 7th, the greatest prize winning cow in 

 America and by Young Abbotsburn, probably 

 the most wonderful of all American show bulls. 

 In common with practically all Wilson county 

 herds, Mr. Roney 's cattle have a strong infusion 

 of the blood of imp. Collynie and the Ingle Lad 

 cows, as well as the rest of the herd, nicked well 

 with the next bull, Golden Hampton, a son of 

 Hampton Spray, one of the best bulls ever owned 

 in southern Kansas. Golden Hampton was out 



