106 A HISTOKY OP SHOETHOBNS IN KANSAS 



Dawdy and Walter Lattimer came to Kansas 

 and took cliarge. There were about ninety head 

 of Bates cattle on the farm, headed by 53d Duke 

 of Airdrie, which were sold at public sale in 

 Kansas City the next spring at an average of 

 more than $200 with a top price of $800. They 

 liought and sold a mnnber of herds, using the 

 Olick faiiii as a Ijase for operations until 1901 

 wlien they removed to Arrington in Atchison 

 county. Walter Lattimer died in 1902 and after 

 his death ]J. L. Dawdy handled the Inisiness 

 individually. 



H. M. Hill, Montgomery County. — It was not 

 int<'uded Ijy Mr. Hill's parents ttiat he should 

 dc\('lo]» into a Shorthoi'U bj'eeder. h5ouie of his 

 boyhood friends have told me of his early (edu- 

 cation and training for the legal profession and 

 that the influence of an old Frenchman who kept 

 some g0(_)d grade Shorthorns weighed more heav- 

 ily than did the ambitions of fond parents. How- 

 ever that may be, the young man, after having 

 been a short time in charge of the family l^ank- 

 ing interests at Lafontaine, transf eri'cd his scene 

 of action to a Ijig ti'act of land, now known as 

 Syca]iioi'(j Springs Stoclc Farm, and in 1893 lie 

 l.)ong]it a lot oi' Sliorthorns from T. O. F(.ird of 

 Liberty. In tlie same year he l)ought eight heif- 

 ers of S(.!na,tor Benedict. They were by the Wil- 

 liams liros. ' show bull, Dr. Primrose and by 

 Baiiker 1th, Mr. Benedict's well known sire. 



