484 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



At J. C. Jenkins' sale Mrs. Jesse Long of Iowa 

 gave $2,125 for Mazurka 36th, George M. Bed- 

 ford $2,500 for 4th Louan of Oakland and $2,000 

 for Louan of Prospect Farm, E. K. Thomas 

 $2,055 for Blooming Heath 2d, and J. H. Spears 

 took Mazurka 33d at $1,650. Mr. Jenkins' fif- 

 teen head averaged $1,274. 



Pushing the Princesses. While the cham- 

 pions of this fine old sort did not score as 

 dazzling a success during this speculative era 

 as might have been anticipated in view of 

 Belvedere's brilliant career and the conceded 

 dual-purpose capacity of the tribe, still they 

 enlisted the support of several daring spirits 

 prominent in the trade during these halcyon 

 days of Short-horn prosperity. 



The American-bred Princesses were all de- 

 scended from the three imported cows. Red 

 Rose 2d, Lady Sale 2d and Tuberose 2d. Those 

 tracing to Red Rose 2d were unquestionably 

 the best. Wherever they were fairly treated 

 and intelligently bred they displayed fine sub- 

 stance, thick flesh and scale, as well as dairy 

 propensity. The Princesses had been largely 

 in the hands of dairymen in the New England 

 States, and were treated as dairy stock, de- 

 veloping milking qualities of the highest order. 

 The Tuberose branch manifested a tendency to 

 present dark noses; a point which has never 

 met with the favor of the fraternity of Short- 



