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animals, among others the celebrated twin show 

 heifers Emma 4th and Emma 5th. Missie39th, 

 of Mr. Marr's breeding, and Sybil 13th, from 

 Sittyton, were also of this lot. 



Scotch success at the shows. Col. William 

 S. King had given the Western States an ink- 

 ling as to the superior flesh and substance of 

 the Scotch type of cattle, and J. H. Kissinger 

 of Missouri, Messrs. Day of Iowa, and some of 

 their contemporaries had carried the demon- 

 stration of their feeding quality to a convinc- 

 ing conclusion. About 1877 the Herefords were 

 pressing hard for recognition at the great 

 National shows, and those who bore the brunt 

 of the assault in behalf of the Short-horns 

 found in the North Country tribes a class of 

 cattle that had the constitution to withstand 

 heavy feeding, and that possessed the requisite 

 capacity for taking on flesh at an early age. 



Potts and the Duke of Richmond. Fore- 

 most among those who contested every inch of 

 the Hereford advance of that period stood John 

 H. Potts & Son of Oakland Farm, Jacksonville, 

 111. Mr. Potts had made a modest beginning in 

 1868 by the purchase of the cow Belle More- 

 land, tracing on the dam's side to imp. Amelia 

 by Plato. She carried a cross of the blood of 

 the Sanders importation of 1817, and, although 

 a cow of great individual merit, was purchased 

 at the low price of $95. Within six years $1,800 



