398 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



this lot were two heifers from Torr's Waterloo 

 tribe and the roan Baron Oxford's Beauty from 

 Col. Towneley's. This shipment experienced 

 cold weather at sea, but the day the cattle 

 landed in New York harbor the thermometer 

 registered 105 deg. in the shade. Poor Patri- 

 cia, for which $5,000 had been paid, succumbed 

 to the heat on shipboard before the cattle 

 could be landed. Had the rest not been 

 carefully handled after unloading other losses 

 would doubtless have occurred. Gibson had 

 them hauled from the dock to the railway 

 freight-yard in canopy-covered "lorries," with 

 a big sponge tied on top of the head of each 

 animal and a boy alongside of each cow to 

 apply cold water. In this way they were safe- 

 ly started for the farm. 



The Mills now had indeed the nucleus of a 

 herd which might well set Bates men thinking. 

 Cochrane and Simon Beattie in Canada were at 

 this time attracting the attention of the trade 

 on both sides of the water by their extensive 

 importations of Booth -crossed stock, and it 

 really began to look as if that type might at 

 last become a formidable rival of the Bates 

 tribes in the New World. 



Sensational transfer of the Sheldon herd. 

 Sheldon was nothing if not shrewd, and soon 

 scented danger in the Booth propaganda with 

 such backers in the East as Walcott & Camp- 



