528 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Short-horn trade. He was one of the first to 

 profit by the rising tide of Short-horn values in 

 America after the close of the Civil War; en- 

 gaged boldly and profitably in the early Duch- 

 ess speculations, made numerous sales at high 

 prices to leading buyers on both sides the At- 

 lantic, and when he observed that America was 

 not taking kindly to the high-priced Booths, 

 began turning them back upon the English 

 market. In the fall of 1875 he sold to Mr. A. 

 H. Browne of Northumberland five Booth heif- 

 ers at a reported price of $17,500. During that 

 same year he exported Royal Commander 

 (29857) and sold him at the Aylesby sale for 

 1,150 guineas to Hugh Aylmer. In August, 

 1876, he shipped two heifers and three year- 

 ling bulls, also of Booth blood, to Scotland, and 

 in 1877, as above mentioned, he appeared at 

 Windermere with a group of cattle deep in the 

 most fashionable Warlaby blood.* Believing 

 also that the English market at this time 

 afforded a better prospect for high prices for 

 Bates cattle than America he included in this 

 shipment the red Duchess heifers 3d and 5th 



* Mr. Cochrane attributed the failure of the Booths to score a specula 

 tive success in America during this period largely to the fact that Ameri- 

 can buyers at that time insisted, as a rule, upon fine style and finish. The 

 Booths, more especially the bulls, were somewhat inclined to roughness 

 about their heads, having been bred more for flesh and constitution than 

 for refinement. Again they ran strongly toward light colors. Another 

 reason was found in the fact that quite a number of the high-priced im- 

 ported Booth cows and heifers had failed to breed. 



