424 A HISTORY OF SHORT HORN CATTLE. 



Royal Blithe and Breakspear and the red year- 

 ling 3d Duke of Hillhurst. Mr. Cochrane had 

 now acquired possession of the Booth stock 

 imported for New York Mills. Royal Blithe 

 was a son of the Warlaby-bred Merry Peal, but 

 died on shipboard. A stormy passage was en- 

 countered and the other two bulls arrived at 

 Liverpool in December much reduced in flesh. 



This year is memorable in the annals of 

 Kentucky Short-horn breeding especially for 

 the sale to Earl Dunmore by Abram Renick of 

 the Rose of Sharon heifers Red Rose of the 

 fsles, Red Rose of Thorndale and Red Rose of 

 Rannoch, the first a daughter of old Airdrie, 

 the second by 8th Duke of Thorndale and the 

 third by Joe Johnson. All were in calf to the 

 4th Duke of Geneva. Dunmore had been at- 

 tached to the staffs of various Confederate 

 commanders during the American Civil War 

 in quest of military experience. He was with 

 Lee, Wade Hampton and Kirby Smith, and 

 when the latter made his dash into Kentucky 

 the Scottish Earl improved the opportunity to 

 have a look incognito at some of the Short-horn 

 herds of the blue-grass country. Out of this 

 visit grew his subsequent orders for cattle of 

 the Rose of Sharon tribe. 



Col. L. G. Morris of New York brought out 

 in August, 1872, five heifers and two bulls of 

 Bates blood, including the bull Oxford Beau 



