394 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



cow Rosedale, bred by Lady Pigot. Along 

 with Rosedale came her bull calf Capt. Alton 

 6512. Baron Booth went into the West to win 

 imperishable renown in the herd of Mr. Pick- 

 rell, and Rosedale soon afterward followed; 

 being purchased by Col. William S. King of 

 Minneapolis, in whose hands she proved the 

 sensation of her time. 



In 1868 Mr. Cochrane imported eleven head, 

 four of which were of Bates breeding and the 

 remainder of Booth blood from the herds of 

 William Torr and R. S. Bruere. He resolved 

 to be "in" on the Duchess proposition as well 

 as the trade in show stock of Booth deriva- 

 tion, and bought from Col. Gunter of Wetherby 

 Grange, Yorkshire, the yearling heifer Duchess 

 97th for $5,000* the highest price up to that 

 date ever paid for a cow or heifer of any breed; 

 and from C. W. Harvey of Walton-on-the-Hill ? 

 Liverpool, the young Bates cow Wild Eyes 26th 

 and her bull calf. Meantime he had secured 

 from Sheldon the 1 1th Duke of Thorndale. This 

 shipment is notable not only for the purchase 

 of the Duchess heifer at a startling price but as 

 having included the roan bulls Robert Napier 

 8975 and Star of the Realm 11021; the former 

 bred by Mr. Torr, descending from Booth's 

 Anna, and the latter bred by Mr. Bruere from his 



* This was the first Duchess female Gunter had parted with up to 1868. 

 He had refused in 1865 an offer from Mr. Betts of 1,000 guineas for Duchess 

 84th and her heifer calf Duchess 92d. 



