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sketch the most noteworthy events during the 

 great "down turn" in values marked by the 

 period extending from 1876 to 1880. 



Hon. George Brown and Bow Park. In the 

 spring of 1876 the Hon. George Brown of Can- 

 ada, one of the most remarkable characters 

 ever identified with the Short-horn trade in 

 America, proceeded to Scotland (the land of 

 his birth) and through the assistance of his 

 brothers-in-law Messrs. William and Thomas 

 Nelson, of the great firm of Thomas Nelson & 

 Sons, organized a limited company under the 

 name of the Canada West Farm Stock Associa- 

 tion. While this enterprise was launched at a 

 most unfortunate time for the stockholders, 

 and was therefore foredoomed to ultimate 

 financial failure, its operations were so exten- 

 sive and were carried forward with such enter- 

 prise that a deep impression was made upon 

 the fortunes of the breed on this side of the 

 Atlantic. 



Mr. Brown had come to Toronto from Edin- 

 burg as a young man and had worked himself 

 up through the field of journalism and politics 

 into the very highest circles of power in the 

 Dominion. He had for many years been pro- 

 prietor of the Toronto Globe, a paper known 

 all over Canada as "the Scotchman's bible." 

 Personally he was a man of marked force of 

 character, and his vigorous intellect, combined 





