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thing better than medium cattle. The Lackeys 

 were (j^uite good advertisers and enjoyed a liberal 

 patronage. Another Marion county herd of the 

 same time was that of John Kraft who bought in 

 Canada the ])ull, Lord Barrington 36022 and the 

 cow, Lady Aileen 2d. The records show only 

 one heifer j^roduced from this cow. 



W. C Bancroft of Solomon Rapids was one of 

 the first breeders, if not the first, in Mitchell 

 <_ujunty. In 1877 he Ijought (jf N. L. (Jhaffee of 

 Manhattan, a lot of cows that were sired by the 

 excellent bulls, Oxford Wiley, imp. Clarendon, 

 1st Grand Duke of Kansas and Red Wiley, a son 

 of Oxford Wiley. The general opinion is that 

 the Chaffee cattle were a very d(;.sirable lot. 



At one of the numerous sales held by J. C. & 

 Gleorge Hamilton in Kansas City, T. J. Peters 

 of Osage county bought three (iows. Two were 

 by Duke of Noxubee and one by Earl of Barring- 

 ton, both well known and very popular sires. 

 This purchase was made in 1879 and Mr. Peters 

 continued his operations for a few j^ears. 



E. R. .Bi'own (tJ' Pottawatomie county l)i-ed 

 tShorthoi'MS from about 1872 to 188U. A peculiai' 

 featui'(.' of his W(trk was that he recoi'ded no 

 (tattle eaj'lier than vol. 20. 



In 1879 Geo. T. Poison of Riley county bought 

 four cows from the well known and then pop- 

 ular herds of A. M. Winslow & Sons and Wil- 

 liam Sicveiison it Sons. Before the end of 



