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sold to William Stewart of Franklin Grove, I1L 

 and produced the bull Champion of the West 

 13632, afterward sold for $1,000. Stewart sold 

 the cow to John Haley Spears of Menard Co., 

 111., one of the great showmen of his time, who 

 exhibited her with success at the leading West- 

 ern fairs, selling her at auction at nine years 

 old to Mrs. Kimberley of Iowa at $1,000. 



The Golden Drops. Another grand Scotch 

 cow brought out by Mr. Thompson was Golden 

 Drop 1st, a red -roan of same age as Violet's 

 Forth, bred by Mr. Campbell of Kinellar, and 

 sired by Prince of Worcester (20597) out of 

 Golden Drop by Scarlet Velvet. Violet's Forth 

 had decidedly the stronger back and loin, but 

 in other respects Golden Drop 1st was her 

 equal. She passed into possession of Messrs. 

 John Snell & Sons, Edmonton, Ont., but like 

 Sylvia and Violet's Forth she was sought by the 

 enterprising breeders of the West. At SnelPs 

 sale of 1874 she was bought by Messrs. A. H. & 

 I. B. Day of Utica, la., owners of one of the 

 most noted show herds of the early " seventies," 

 at $1,125, and in their hands added fresh luster 

 to the Aberdeenshire fame in the New World. 

 Her red-roan heifer of 1871, Golden Drop 4th 

 by Sir Christopher (22895), also imported by 

 Mr. Thompson, possessed much of her mother's 

 merit. She was sold to Mr. George F. Wastell 

 of Port Huron, Mich. Mr. Thompson also im- 



