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progeny perhaps the most distinguished were 

 the light roan Tulip and the roan Fleda, both 

 of these being descended from Capt. Warfield's 

 never-beaten show cow Caroline. The former 

 was sold to Capt, James N. Brown and the lat- 

 ter to J. D, Smith, both of Sangamon Co., 111., 

 and for many years they divided the verdicts 

 of Western show-yard juries. Indeed the late 

 Capt. Brown considered that Tulip was a vastly 

 better cow than Capt. Warfield's celebrated 

 Mary Magdalene, that had been bred by Abram 

 Renick from a Harriet dam from a service by 

 Renick 903. Mary Magdalene combined aston- 

 ishing substance with rare finish. Although 

 she was of enormous size, weighing in show 

 condition 2,250 Ibs., still an ordinary hand could 

 span her ankle with thumb and fore finger. 

 Lizzie Higgins, the dam of Fleda, invariably 

 produced a show animal to a service by Renick, 

 her heifers Sally Campbell and Pearl and the 

 bull Magyar 677 illustrating this fact. Still 

 another cow that " nicked" well with Renick 

 was Lucy, a descendant of imp. White Rose, 

 by Publicola, that gave to Renick the two great 

 heifers Lucy 2d and Lucy 3d and bulls Francisco 

 2266 and Duke of Stockdale 1483. That excellent 

 old cow Cherry 2d, by Don John 426, also pro- 

 duced to Renick a pair of extraordinary calves 

 known as Amy and Sally Smith. Another great 

 Renick heifer was Adah, and we should also 



