506 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



chases at the Torr sale, the $3,350 roan bull 

 Lord Lamech, the red-and-white bull calf 

 Flower Lad, the red "G" cow Germania, the 

 roan Waterloo heifer Waterloo Shield, by 

 Knight of the Shire (26552), and the red bull 

 calf 2d Marquis of Worcester of the Bates Wild 

 Eyes tribe from Dunmore at $900. 



Messrs. Cochrane, Beattie and Hope of Can- 

 ada imported in October, 1875, twenty-five 

 head, mainly of Bates breeding; and on the 

 same steamer four females were shipped to S. 

 R. Streator of Cleveland, 0., and six for Albert 

 Crane, a Chicago capitalist owning the Durham 

 Park Ranch in Kansas. Tn November eleven 

 head were imported by Mr. Robert Ashburner 

 of California. 



Coming events were already beginning to 

 cast portentous shadows before. Even while 

 speculation in stock of the Bates and Booth 

 tribes was at its very heighth shrewd and prac- 

 tical men were turning their attention to the 

 herds of Scotland, hitherto little known in 

 America, In 1874 Mr. Robert Milne, a former 

 neighbor .and friend of Amos Cruickshank of 

 Aberdeenshire, had imported a half-dozen fe- 

 males and the bull Viscount 18507 from the 

 Cruickshank herd. Favorably impressed by 

 these Messrs. Lowman & Smith of Toulon, 111., 

 imported during the summer of 1875 seven fe- 

 males from North Britain, including two 



