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exactly $1,000 apiece. The stockholders were enabled to reap 

 considerable profit on their investments, unless they took into 

 account the cost to themselves as individual purchasers of the 

 animals. Following the breaking up of the Importing Company, 

 MR. RENICK approached BATES concerning the purchase of the 

 Duke of Northumberland; he attempted one or two general 

 importations thereafter but practically speaking they came to 

 naught. 



It is difficult to estimate the great value to the Shorthorn breed 

 rendered by MR. RENICK and his company. Four of the most im- 

 portant families of the mid-century originated in the animals he 

 brought across: the Josephines, the Young Marys, the Young 

 Phyllis and the Roses of Sharon. These supplied the stimulus 

 of fresh blood to the descendants of the older importations, and 

 spurred on the breed to new achievements in the showyard and 

 market. For more than one hundred years, the RENICK family 

 was identified with Shorthorn development and improvement, and 

 MR. FELIX RENICK is to be fully credited with the impulse for 

 good he thus initiated. 



