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sales in the vicinity of Toronto. There he saw some of the very 

 best of the early Scotch importations, and after a careful study 

 of a number of sires secured from MR. JOHN MILLER, (114) 

 the great bull Lord Strathallan, for $2,050 gold, then the equiva- 

 lent of $2,500 currency. This was his introduction to the Scotch 

 sorts, and while he was not arbitrary in his promotion of them, 

 he ever after combined Scotch bloods with his Booth founda- 

 tions. His most noted bull following Lord Strathallan was 

 Baron Lavender 3d, which he purchased in the spring of 1899. 

 This bull proved an excellent sire for him and he never 

 obtained from his service a bad or indifferent calf. Most nota- 

 ble of these was Lavender Viscount, champion of the American 

 Royal, Goldfinch, Royal Avalanche, Golden Crest and Sun- 

 flower 4th. 



In 1874 MR. LOCKRIDGE was elected secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Breeders of Shorthorns, which position he 

 held until 1882. From 1881 to 1883 he was a member of the 

 state senate of Indiana, and later became so strongly identified 

 with Grand Army affairs as to be elected Commander of the 

 Greencastle Post, and aide-de-camp on the staff of GENERAL ELI 

 TORRENCE, when the latter was Commander-in-Chief of the 

 Grand Army of the Republic. In 1882 he was prominent 

 among the founders of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, being elected a director, a position he retained for 

 twenty-seven years. In 1899 he was a delegate to the Farmers' 

 National Congress in Boston, and in 1900-01 was president of 

 the Central Shorthorn Breeders' Association. The following 

 year he was elected president of the American Shorthorn Breed- 

 ers' Association, to which he was subsequently twice re-elected. 



