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sale made 1,253 guineas; one bull, Lord Chan- 

 cellor (20160), afterward a Royal winner, bring- 

 ing 400 guineas. 



Imperial Oxford was extensively used upon 

 the Grand Duchesses, being the sire of the fa- 

 mous Grand Duchess 17th. 4th Lady of Oxford 

 also acquired renown, not only as a breeding 

 animal, but in the show-yard as well. In 1862 

 Mr. Thorne sent to England Lord Oxford 3091, 

 2d Lord Oxford, Bishop of Oxford, and Duke of 

 Geneva 3858 of J. 0. Sheldon's breeding. These 

 also brought high prices, 600 guineas being ob- 

 tained for the latter. The Duke entered the 

 English show-yard with success and became 

 very famous in the Bates Short-horn breeding 

 ranks, dying the property of Lord Penrhyn in 

 1867. These shipments were followed by the 

 exportation by Ezra Cornell* of Ithaca, N. Y., 

 of the young bull 3d Lord of Oxford 4958, bred 

 by Mr. Thorne; that also sold on the other side 

 for 600 guineas. 



Early in the " sixties" Mr. R. A. Alexander 

 exported to England 2d Duke of Airdrie 

 (19600), 5th Duke of Airdrie (19601) and the 



* Mr. Cornell, who was the munificent founder of Cornell University, had 

 made an importation of Bates cattle from England, in 1863, consisting- of two 

 Fidget heifers (Bell-Bates), and a Kirklevington from C. W. Harvey. He 

 maintained a herd of Short-horns for a number of years ; the pedigrees of 

 most of which may be found in Vols. VIII to XVI of the herd book. 



Among other Eastern breeders who were becoming prominent in Short- 

 horn breeding about this time were Messrs. A. B. Conger, T. L. Harison, 

 George Butts and Messrs. Wadsworth of New York: Messrs. Winslow and 

 A. W. Griswold of Vermont; Augustus Whitman of Massachusetts and B. 

 Sunnier of Connecticut. 



