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and elsewhere ; and the Emperor has not only hired bulls from 

 Warlaby, but purchased thirty females a few years since at 

 upwards of a hundred guineas each. Bulls have taeen gradually 

 distributed into many departments of France ; and no one could 

 walk down the Poissy rows in 1862 and fail to note how, in a 

 land devoted to boiling-beef parts, they had asserted the British 

 sirloin, and how no native breed, save the massive white or 

 cream-coloured Charolais, could hold its own against them in the 

 crosses. Germany has not given such high prices, and has cared 

 less for blood. The King of Wurtemburg's agents were in the 

 market as far back as 1824, and the Emperors of Russia and 

 Austria in later years. Sweden came out more spiritedly last 

 season than she had ever done before ; and Spain has bought some 

 bulls to put better points on the Andalusian cattle. The King 

 of Sardinia has also been a purchaser, and so has the King of 

 Holland, whose agents went more especially for bulls from York- 

 shire. 



Still it is to America that breeders have generally looked for their 

 most spirited customers. As far back as 171)7 a Favourite (252) 

 cow was sent over, and returning at the end of thirteen years, 

 became the foundress of the "Cambridge Roses;" and Stephen- 

 son's "Princess" tribe also struck root in Cayuga County, New- 

 York. The Ohio Company followed in the steps of the Illinois, 

 and Colonel Powell, and purchased rather with a view to milk 

 than beef, a feeling which has always made America incline 

 more especially to the Bates blood. 



■ The society of Shakers did not grudge four hundred guineas 

 for " Captain Balco " (12,546), and the "Grand Dukes " 1st and 

 2nd, each crossed the Atlantic with 1000 guineas on their heads. 

 Messrs. Becar and Morris, and Tliorne, by their daring rivalry, 

 gave such a fillip to the Ducie sale in 1853, that although there 

 were fifteen more lots, the average only fell 8^. short of the 

 Ketton, which reached 151/. 85. for forty-seven. It was here that 

 Captain Gunter bought the cow and calf, 67th and 70th, which 

 restored the Duchess blood to Yorkshire. Here, too, the 

 Americans threw all previous speculation into the shade by 

 giving 700 guineas for "Duchess 66th," and an average of 516 

 guineas for those six lots, Avhose bull-produce have come over 

 twice since then, and have been bought up so eagerly in England 

 and Wales. Our own colonies have not been laggards, but still 

 Canada has caught but little of the American spirit, and Van 

 Diemen's Land was the first spot which gave shorthorns a 

 welcome at the antipodes, when it imported bulls in 1831. The 

 Boldens introduced them at Port Phillip nine years later, and 

 Geelong in 1858 was the scene of the death of the unbeaten 

 1200 guinea bull, " jMaster Butterfly," on his way under a hot 

 sun to a cattle-show. 



