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Baron Oxford 2d went to Mr. Holland at the 

 same price. 



Sheldon of Geneva. Mr. J. 0. Sheldon of 

 White Spring Farm, Geneva, N, Y. (not Illi- 

 nois, as certain English writers persist in put- 

 ting it), upon whose shoulders fell the mantle 

 of Samuel Thome, began breeding Short-horns 

 by making the importation mentioned on page 

 274. A few years later he bought from Mr. 

 Thorne the bull imp. Duke of Gloster (11382), 

 Duchess 64th and her daughter 1st Duchess of 

 Thorndale, together with Duchess 66th and her 

 daughter Duchess 71st. In 1860 he bred from 

 the latter the bull Duke of Geneva (19614), sold 

 to Mr. Thorne and exported to England. Shel- 

 don also secured some of the Oxford blood from 

 Thorndale, and in 1860 bred from that family 

 the bull Oxford Lad (24713), which acquired 

 great reputation in the herd of the Hon. David 

 Christie of Canada. Sheldon also bought large- 

 ly from Mr. R. A. Alexander, securing a num- 

 ber of the daughters of imp. Duke of Airdrie, 

 among others the Victoria cow Vara (that be- 

 came the flam of the noted stock bull Weehaw- 

 ken 5260), and females of the Mazurka, Con- 

 stance, Miss Wiley, Vellum, Jubilee, Lady Bates, 

 Roan Duchess, Pearlette and other noted Wood- 

 burn families. He also bought from Mr. Alex- 

 ander the 7th Duke of Airdrie 5532. 



In 1866 Samuel Thorne decided to close out 



