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of the stockholders and contemporary breeders 

 was that Mr. Renick had discharged his difficult 

 task in an eminently satisfactory manner. The 

 bulls were put out in service among the share- 

 holders and the company instructed Mr. Renick 

 to arrange for further shipments. 



Two of the heifers included in this importa- 

 tion of 1834 gave rise to families of Short-horns 

 which are at the present day among the most 

 numerous to be found in the leading Short-horn 

 breeding States. These were the roan heifers 

 Rose of Sharon, bred by Mr. Bates and sired by 

 Belvedere, and Young Mary, bred by J. Clark 

 and sired by Jupiter. Young Mary was taken to 

 Kentucky and is said to have produced no less 

 than fourteen heifer calves, besides one or two 

 bulls possibly the most extraordinary case on 

 record. She lived to be twenty-one years old. 

 The red cow Blossom, by Fitz Favorite, and the 

 heifer Matilda, by Imperial, also left numerous 

 descendants. Among the bulls of this first im- 

 portation were the three-year-old roan Re- 

 former (2505), of Raine breeding; the yearling 

 Duke of York (1941), of Whitaker's breeding, 

 and Rantipole (2478), bred by Mr. Paley, main- 

 ly of Booth descent. 



Whitaker's selections of 1835 and 1836. 

 Mr. Renick deemed it safe to risk the judgment 

 of Mr. Whitaker for such additional stock as 

 might be wanted, and wrote him as follows: 



