CLOSING EVENTS OF THE CENTURY. 717 



Palmer's sale of Scotch cattle. On April 

 19, 1883, there occurred an unfortunate clash 

 between the Bow Park management repre- 

 senting Bates cattle on one hand and the 

 late Launcelot Palmer of Missouri, who had 

 been a buyer and exhibitor of the Aberdeen- 

 shire sorts. The feeling at this time between 

 the rival types was running high, and as neither 

 party to this conflict of sale dates would 

 give way, the occurrence furnished a test as to 

 the prevailing temper of Northern breeders in 

 reference to the Bates and Scotch cattle. The 

 Bow Park sale was held at Glen Flora Farm, a 

 short distance north of Chicago, and the 

 Palmer sale at Dexter Park, Chicago Union 

 Stock Yards. The most active breeders of the 

 period favored the Palmer sale with their com- 

 pany, forcing the three-year-old heifer Mysie 

 43d, of James I. Davidson's breeding sired by 

 Crown Prince of Athelstane 2d 16585 out of 

 imp. Mysie 36th of Mr. Cruickshank's breed- 

 ing up to 11,950, at which figure she was bid 

 off by Col. Harris for account of Chas. A. De- 

 Graff of Lake Elysian Farm, Janesville, Minn. 

 De Graff had for several years been a pa- 

 tron of the Bates herds, but in the fall of 

 1882 had bought from the Hon. John Dryden 

 the imported Scotch bull Baron Surmise. He 

 also took the imported Cruickshank cow Art- 

 less out of this sale at $1,025. Mr. Robert 



