442 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



for a fee of 1,000 guineas! He published a sale 

 catalogue of the Duchesses and Oxfords. Page 

 announced: "I have the sale and shall be 

 pleased to see Mr. Strafford and have his as- 

 sistance, but he will sell what I choose to as- 

 sign him. I am the auctioneer." The Carr 

 episode led to a long and heated newspaper 

 controversy, in the course of which Bell's Mes- 

 senger of London said: "The words quoted by 

 Mr. Carr mean that when he offered to Mr. 

 Campbell as a salable commodity his influence 

 with British Short-horn buyers and Mr. Camp- 

 bell agreed to accept it at a price both Mr. 

 Campbell and Mr. Carr (on their own showing) 

 were guilty of disgraceful traffic in public con- 

 fidence." All of which served as capital adver-' 

 tising. 



There were now no Duchesses living on 

 either side the Atlantic descended direct from 

 Mr. Bates' herd, without admixture of blood 

 from other sources, save those at New York 

 Mills, and they were all derived from Duchess 

 66th.* Just why this should have made the 

 Mills cattle so much more precious than their 



*The leading outcrosses on the Duchesses came through 2d Duke of 

 Athol (11376) into the Duchesses of Airdrie, through Usurer (9763) into the 

 English Duchesses, through Imperial Oxford 4905, Prince Imperial (15095) 

 and 2d Duke of Bolton (12739) into the Grand Duchesses, and through Grand 

 Turk (12969) into some of the Dukes of Thorndale. Outcrosses put upon the 

 Oxfords included Borneo (13619) and his sons Oxford Lad 4220 and Imperial 

 Oxford 4905; Marquis of Carrabas (11789), bred by Fawkes, and Lamartine 

 (11662), bred by J. M. Sherwood. Imperial Duke (18083), that was half-Duch- 

 ess and half-Knightley, had also been introduced into some of the Duchess 

 and Oxford pedigrees. 



