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never defeated in showing with his progeny, 

 and during these four years gained for the Pick- 

 rell herd prizes aggregating in value over $4,000 

 cash.* 



As a stock-getter he "nicked" especially with 

 cows and heifers by Mr. Renick's old Airdrie 

 2478 and those by the llth Duke of Airdrie 

 5533. It was a cross upon an Airdrie cow that 

 gave Mr. Pickrell Baron Lewis, a bull that de- 

 feated his sire for the bull championship at an 

 Indiana State Fair and was the first bull ever 

 bred in Illinois that commanded a price of 

 $3,000. Another Airdrie "nick" was the phe- 

 nomenal Lady Bride, that sold for $2,850 and 

 walked through the Illinois, Iowa and Missouri 

 shows an undefeated heifer. Among the great 

 Baron Booths out of llth Duke of Airdrie dams 

 may be mentioned Louan Hill's 4th and 5th and 

 Caroline 15th, all noted show animals. 



* Mr. Pickrell entered a competition at Canton, 111., in 1870, where $500 

 was offered for the best display of not less than ten nor more than twenty 

 head. He had Baron Booth of Lancaster at one end of a string of eighteen 

 head of nice cows and heifers and at the other end of the line had the 

 Baron's l>est son, Baron Lewis. Mr. Dunlap of Jacksonville showed ten 

 head and was awarded first prize. The relative values of the competing 

 lots may be judged from the fact that Mr. Dunlap made a sale the following 

 year at which his ten prize-winners brought a total of $2,700 and were con- 

 sidered well sold at that. Mr. Pickrell sold Baron Lewis alone tor $3,000 

 and had his sire and eighteen cows and heifers left. 



