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stock. The Kentuckians, naturally predisposed 

 to favor the Duchess proposition by reason of 

 their satisfactory experience with the kindred 

 Woodburn blood, contributed to the upbuild- 

 ing of the " boom." Edwin Bedford had bought 

 2d Duke of Geneva 5562, and during his brief 

 career that bull made a distinct "hit," as stated 

 on page 305. Mr. Bedford then got the 5th 

 Duke at $3,000. Col. King of Minnesota se- 

 cured the 6th at the same price. In 1869 Mr. 

 Alexander took the 10th Duke of Thorndale 

 (28458) from Sheldon at $5,500. A. W. Gris- 

 wold of Vermont had given $3,000 for the 14th 

 Duke of Thorndale (28459) as a calf, and in 1869 

 George M. Bedford purchased him at $6,000. 

 The 8th and 9th Dukes of Geneva had gone at 

 $4,000 each, and Cochrane had the llth. 



The Bates tribes were now (1870) firmly held 

 by powerful interests on both sides the Atlan- 

 tic. Walcott & Campbell, after their prelimi- 

 nary flirtation with the Booths, had gone into 

 the Duchess speculation,* and this gave the 

 Kirklevington sorts a prestige that needed 

 only the great sale at New York Mills to fairly 

 stampede America to the Bates colors. Mean- 

 time the West was aroused to action by the an- 

 nouncement of a dispersion sale of the entire 

 herd of Mr. McMillan of Ohio, and as this was 



The New York Mills Booth cattle were afterward sold to M~. Coch- 

 rane, who sent some of them back to England. 

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