. A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



the cover of Prince Albert 2d 857 the bull Al- 

 bert Gallatin 202. Randolph and Gallatin did 

 some of the local shows in company and car- 

 ried many ribbons; the older. (Phyllis) usually 

 securing first honors and the Mary second. 



Ben F. Vanmeter gave the Marys interna- 

 tional fame. From his father's red-roan Red 

 Rose, by Pearl 2012*, he bred the celebrated 

 family of Red Roses; and by mating the Han- 

 nah More cow Beck with the Phyllis show bull 

 Dick Taylor he bred the red Beck Taylor, the 

 matron of a family of that name still popular 

 in the West. Probably the best two cows ever 

 produced in his herd were Red Roses 8th and 

 llth, own sisters by the Phyllis bull Airdrie 

 Duke 5306. The Airdrie Duchess blood was by 

 this time producing remarkable results in all 

 the leading Kentucky herds, and when the 

 Renick, Vanmeter, Warfield and Bedford cows 

 carrying the Bates cross met at the local shows 

 there was " war to the knife." Upon one mem- 

 orable occasion Mr. Ben. Vanmeter with Red 

 Roses 8th and llth encountered one of the 

 greatest cow combinations Kentucky had ever 

 seen, meeting Mr. Renick's pets, " Little" and 

 "Big" Genevas, two of Edwin G. Bedford's Lou- 



* Pearl was a red bull bred by Solomon Vanmeter that became the prop- 

 erty of Robert S. Taylor of Clark County. He was got by Vanmeter, Dun- 

 can & Cunningham's imported $4,850 bull Challenger (14252) from the im- 

 ported cow Gem by Earl Ducie's Broker (9993), got by Usurer (9763). Pearl's 

 grandam was Gulnare, by Whitaker's Norfolk (2377), and his great-grandam 

 was the Booth-bred Medora by Ambo (1(536). 



