300 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



The progeny in the one case was the heifer Red 

 Rose and in the other the heifer Dorothy. Red 

 Rose, bred to Ashland, produced the roan Poppy 

 in 1849 9 and she in turn, bred to Renick 903, 

 gave birth in 1853 to the light roan heifer 

 Norah. Red Rose, bred to Buena yista,* pro- 

 duced in 1850 the red-and-white heifer Duch- 

 ess, that afterward became the dam of Airdrie 

 2478. A few cows were also bred to the Tan- 

 queray bull John o' Gaunt (11621), imported 

 into Bourbon County by Mr. Matson in 1852. 

 To a service by this bull Duchess produced in 

 1853 the heifer Ophelia. These cows were 

 among the noted matrons of the Rose of Sha- 

 ron family in the Renick herd. 



Airdrie 2478 was a red, with little white, of 

 only medium size. In good thrifty breeding 

 condition he weighed about 1,900 Ibs. at full 

 maturity. He was repeatedly shown by Mr. 

 Renick, but was never made fat enough to 

 weigh more than 2,100 Ibs., although he could 

 have been made to carry 2,200 Ibs. in excess- 

 ively high flesh. He was very symmetrical in 

 conformation; smooth, neat arid stylish, with 

 no serious faults. Airdrie may safely be listed 

 as one of America's greatest progenitors of 

 valuable Short-horns; imparting finish and 



* Buena Vista's sire was the grand bull Cossack, alias Julius Caesar 

 (3503), bred by Mr. Clay and sold to B. Warfleld. Cossack (3503) was by Cos, 

 sack (1880), bred by Richard Booth at Studley from the old Killerby Moss 

 Rose tribe. 



