SOME HISTORIC KENTUCKY STOCK. 299 



Buena Vista 299, to be bred to the Woodburn 

 Duke. The issue was the celebrated Airdrie 

 2478 the bull that made the reputation of Mr. 

 Renick and hi's Rose of Sharon tribe. 



Abram Renick, who was of the same family 

 as the Ohio Renicks, had been a member of the 

 original Ohio Importing Co., and bred Short- 

 horns for a number of years in connection with 

 his brother James. They owned imp. Harriet, 

 imp. Illustrious and imp. Josephine, and had 

 bought in Ohio the heifer Thames, by Shake- 

 speare 961 out of Lady of the Lake, daughter 

 of imp. Rose of Sharon by Belvedere for which 

 cow Mr. Renick paid Mr. Bates in England $700. 

 From Thames descended the entire Renick Rose 

 of Sharon family. The blood of these Ohio cows 

 was more or less intermingled during the ear- 

 lier years of Mr. Renick's breeding. That of 

 imp. Illustrious was utilized through the me- 

 dium of such bulls as Young Comet Halley 

 1134 and Ashland 220; the Harriet blood 

 through Pilot 817, and that of imp. Josephine 

 through Buena Vista 299, the inbred Josephine 

 Renick 903 and General Winfield Scott 530. 

 Rose of Sharon's blood came in not only 

 through her granddaughter Thames but in the 

 bull line through the imported cow's only son r 

 Paragon of the West (4649). Thames had been 

 bred in 1845 and 1846 to Prince Charles 2d 861, 

 tracing to imp. Blossom by Fitz Favorite (1042). 



