A ltIS'l'fli;y OP RTIORTHORXS IN KANSAS 1'20 



liorii liistoiy as the man who brought Golden 

 Drop of Ilillhiirst to Kansas and sold him to 

 Col. Harris. 



H. E. Hayes of Johnson county for a nmnber 

 of yeai's ke})t a (-lioice ('ollection of the Ijreed 

 which was disiiersed at i)ul)lic sale in 1908. Lord 

 Banff 2d, a son of ini]). Lord Banff, was in ser- 

 vice practically all the time the herd was main- 

 tained a.ud ileal' tlie close ot its existence Baron 

 Marr, an excellent son of Cumberland's Last out 

 of imp. Lady Marr, was ])ur(diased. The calves of 

 this l)ull were of outstanding ([uality. The best 

 of the females went into good herds and Baron 

 Marr went to the Deming Bancli at Oswego 

 wliere, after a year's use, he Avas killed by light- 

 ning. The cow sold in the State Association 

 sale, June 1920, at Manhattan for $3900 was out 

 of a daughter of Baron Marr purchased in dam 

 by Pi'of . R. J. Ivinzer while head of the Depart- 

 ment of Animal Husbandry of Kansas State 

 Agricultural College. 



0. E. Morse & Sons were among the early 

 breeders in Linn county and both the sons, T. W. 

 Morse and S. T. Morse, still sometimes talk like 

 Shorthorns breeders. Their herd, though never 

 large, was a credit to the breed and was dis- 

 persed l)ecause the junior members of the firm 

 decided not to follow farming. It was a real 

 factor for good while in existence and was closed 

 out at public sale about 1910, local breeders 



