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of the Sittyton blood. George Brown, of Bow Park farm, 

 will go down in history as a prominent factor in Canadian 

 Shorthorn activity. Among other Canadian breeders 

 and importers were John M. Armstrong, Arthur Johnson, 

 W. B. Telfar, W. Major, William Collum, Thomas Russell, 

 Francis Green and George Whitfield. 



241. Important events in Shorthorn history since 

 1860. In 1869 and 1870, Messrs. Walcott and Camp- 

 bell, of New York, imported Booth Shorthorns and the 

 entire Sheldon herd of Duchesses and Oxfords. This 

 was the beginning of the greatest boom in Bates cattle 

 in the United States. In 1867, Colonel W. S. King, of 

 Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded his important herd in 

 the northwest. From 1860 to 1880, Shorthorns of Bates 

 families were undoubtedly preeminently popular in the 

 United States. In Canada, however, Scotch Shorthorns 

 were gaining in popularity. 



The first sale of cattle ever held in Dexter Park, Chicago, 

 was in the year 1872. These were prosperous times for 

 Shorthorn breeders. This prosperity extended into the 

 next year and culminated in one of the greatest if not the 

 greatest public sale of pedigreed cattle held in the world, 

 namely, the New York Mills sale of Walcott and Camp- 

 bell, September 10, 1873. This herd contained the only 

 living Duchesses which were descended direct from the 

 Bates herd without the admixture of blood from other 

 sources. The sale was very largely attended by Short- 

 horn fanciers from Great Britain, Canada and the United 

 States. At this sale the eighth Duchess of Geneva brought 

 $40,600, and many others were sold at fabulous prices. 

 Almost immediately following this sale there came a 

 period of financial depression, and Shorthorn cattle 

 gradually decreased in value for a few years. 



