298 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



by James S. Duncan, son of Maj. Duncan, but 

 becoming "breechy" was given to a relative in 

 Tennessee and died while en route to that State. 



Duke of Alrdrie 2743, dropped by Nannie Wil- 

 liams in February, 1858, to a service by imp. 

 Duke of Airdrie, proved a first-class show bull, 

 winning a championship as a two-year-old at 

 the Bourbon County Fair in 1860. He was sec- 

 ond at the Ohio State Fair the same year and 

 second at the United States Fair as well. As a 

 three-year-old he swept the decks at the Fay- 

 ette, Bourbon and Harrison Co. (Ky.) Fairs, and 

 in 1863 was first-prize and champion bull at the 

 Kentucky State Show. In 1866, at eight years 

 of age, he won first prize as the best aged bull 

 at the Bourbon County Fair. One of his sons, 

 Duncan's Airdrie 5615, a Louan, was a first-prize 

 and champion bull at the leading Kentucky and 

 Ohio shows from 1865 to 1873 ; but as a sire Dun- 

 can's Duke was specially distinguished as a 

 heifer-getter, fairly making the reputation of 

 the Louans; specimens of which for many years 

 were great prize-winners at leading shows. 

 He was the bull to which Mr. Warfield bred 

 Miss Wiley 4th, securing from that service the 

 great show cow London Duchess 2d. 



Abram Renick and Airdrie 2478. None 

 profited more largely by the services of imp. 

 Duke of Airdrie than Mr. Abram Kenick, who 

 sent his Rose of Sharon show cow Duchess, by 



