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Such bulls as Mr. Button's Frederick 575, Capt. 

 Warfielcl's Pioneer 819, Mr. Wasson's Otley 

 (4632), .Mr. Vanmeter's Charles Colling 333, Dr. 

 Kinnaird's Patrick Henry, Capt. Warfield's Oli- 

 ver (2387) and Cossack (3503), Cunningham & 

 Co.'s Goldfinder (2066) and Mr. Renick's Para- 

 gon of the West (4649) were prominent among 

 the early prize-winners. Such cows as Dr. 

 Kinnaird's Olivia, Mr. Dun's Caroline, Mr. Let- 

 ton's lanthe, Mr. Vanmeter's Hannah More, 

 Capt. Cunningham's Catherine Turley and Capt. 

 Warfield's Helen Eyre, Ellen Ware and the 

 never-beaten Caroline would be a credit to 

 any modern show-ring. Large numbers of the 

 prize animals were sired by Oliver, Goldfinder 

 and Cossack. 



With the various shipments of the Ohio Co., 

 Vail, Stevens, Morris & Becar, Thorne, the 

 Northern Kentucky Co. and R. A. Alexander, 

 and the establishment of the herd book, the 

 question of "caste" was projected into the 

 trade. Time-honored strains were presently 

 sneered at by some who had invested in the 

 blood of the later importations. Bates and his 

 followers had inoculated some of the American 

 buyers with the idea of a select Short-horn ar- 

 istocracy based upon the "only bloods at al) 

 likely to do anybody any good"; and the Amer- 

 ican competition at the Ducie sale, together 

 with the prices paid by Mr. Thorne for the 



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