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attention to the herd of Mr. Bates, and in the 

 year 1849 Mr. Ambrose Stevens of Batavia, 

 N. Y., went to England with a letter of intro- 

 duction to Bates from Vail and- purchased for 

 importation the roan bull 3d Duke of Cam- 

 bridge (5941), then eight years old, sired by the 

 Duke of Northumberland (1940) out of Water- 

 loo 2d by Belvedere. This bull represented a 

 union of the Duchess, Princess and Waterloo 

 tribes, and after his arrival in America an in- 

 terest in him was sold to Col. J. M. Sherwood 

 of Auburn, N. Y. Along with the Duke Mr. 

 Stevens brought out from the herd of Mr. Ste- 

 phenson of Wolviston the roan yearling heifers 

 Princess 2d, by General Sale (8099), and Prin- 

 cess 3d, by Napier (6238), together with Red 

 Rose 2d, a red four-year-old cow by Napier. 

 These were the first representatives of the tribe 

 of Belvedere to be transferred to American 

 soil. Red Rose 2d was sold to Col. Sherwood. 

 She was a capital dairy cow, and it is recorded 

 that "she made forty-nine pounds of butter in 

 twenty-five consecutive days in May and June, 

 1851, when four years old with her second calf." 

 Mr. Stevens brought out in 1849, as a calf, the 

 Princess bull Lord Vano Tempest (10469) and 

 sold him to Col. Sherwood. 



In 1850 Messrs. Stevens and Sherwood im- 

 ported the two-year-old Princess bull Earl of 

 Seaham (10181), of Stephenson's breeding, that 



