296 A HISTORY OF SHORT-JJORN CATTLE. 



$1,000 sweepstake at i JMOofc in 1858 and the 

 championship at same show in 1860. The Har- 

 riet cow Atossa, by King Cyrus, to a service by 

 the imported Duke dropped Grand Duke 2933, 

 that was also a St. Louis winner as a two-year- 

 old. 



Mr. Bedford was a man of very decided con- 

 victions and prejudices and was not always 

 consistent. He became a great opponent of 

 the "Seventeeris" and found fault with the 

 breeding of some of the Louans. At the same 

 time his own cattle of that family had the 

 cross of Dun's imp. Red Rose by Ernesty; while 

 his beautiful Brides and his Zoras went direct 

 to Rose by Skipton. It was largely on account 

 of Mr. Bedford's caustic criticism of these other 

 strains that the late Mr. Parks of Glen Flora 

 (Illinois) raised the question of the purity of 

 the breeding of the Dun importation a strik- 

 ing exemplification of the fact that people who 

 occupy glass houses should not throw stones at 

 their neighbors' roofs. George M. Bedford was 

 an eminently successful producer of good cat- 

 tle, but the love of Bates blood engendered by 

 his successful use of the Duke of Airdrie and 

 his sons finally drew him into unfortunate 

 pedigree speculations in that line of breeding. 



Jere Duncan and Duke of Airdrie 2743. 

 Prominent among the great bulls sired by imp. 

 Duke of Airdrie while at Mr. Bedford's was Maj. 



