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A niSTflin' OV SHORTIIORNW IN KANSAS 



one of selection for individual merit and quality 

 of immediate ancestry. It required only a com- 

 mander-in-chief to rally the people of America 

 to the standard of right thinking and it fell to 

 Kansas to furnish the man, W. A. Harris of Lin- 

 wood. 





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THIS IS WHAT 

 THE S <J O T C H 

 CROSS DID TO 

 A M E E I C A X 

 SHORTHOENS 



W. A. Harris. — Col. W. A. Harris, soldier, 

 statesman and leading American hrceder of 

 k^h(.)rtliorns, was a shining example of a man who 

 <-ould have accumulated great wealth hut who un- 

 selfishl.y gave himscdf to others. As a lirecdcr he 

 stands alone in that he dared to stem the tide and 

 dared to do what seemed best at the risk of in- 

 curring the disa^jproval of his fellow breeders. 

 A born leader, Col. Harris succeeded in accom- 

 plishing on his Leavenworth county farm, what 

 no otlu']' breeder in America since his day has 

 accomplished. What Amos Cruickshank was to 

 Scotland, Col. Hariis was to the country west of 

 the Mississippi and especially to Kansas. It is 



