524 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



shank-bred cattle from James I. Davidson of 

 Canada. At the great Western fairs that year 

 his herd, headed by imp. Duke of Richmond, 

 and including the cows Mattie Richardson, 

 Caroline Cochrane, Caroline Pickrell, 2d Louan 

 of Linwood, and Pretty Jemima 2d, won first 

 prize at Jacksonville, 111.; Hannibal, Mo.; the 

 Illinois and Iowa State Fairs, at St. Louis and 

 Louisiana, Mo. The cattle were then sold at 

 auction, as already detailed. The famous show 

 herd of J. H. Potts & Son was largely founded 

 from this stock. 



Messrs. Pickrell & Kissinger were for years 

 ruling spirits at our Western shows. During a 

 period of twelve years, running from 1867 to 

 1879, cattle shown in their names won, in com- 

 petition with the best herds of the United 

 States and Canada, prizes aggregating $40,000. 

 Their aim was'ever individual merit in the an- 

 imal and the promotion of the best interests of 

 the breed. Lavish in their expenditures for 

 high-class Short-horns, enterprising and per- 

 sistent in their efforts at demonstrating the 

 excellence of the breed in the great show- 

 yards of the West, it is but simple justice to 

 record that no men ever connected with the 

 American Short-horn trade have done more to 

 set up correct standards and further the sub- 

 stantial interests of Short-horns on this side of 

 the Atlantic. 



