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Barmpton out of 24th Duchess of Gloster by 

 Lord of the Isles. Double Gloster was eold to 

 William P. Higinbotham, whose Blue Valley 

 Herd at Manhattan Kan., was for several years 

 one of the best-known collections of the breed 

 west of the Missouri River. Meantime Col. Har- 

 ris became the heaviest buyer of imported 

 Cruickshank heifers in the States, securing the 

 pick of all of James I. Davidson's extensive im- 

 portations of that period from Sittyton. He 

 obtained from this source and transferred to 

 the "sunny slopes of Linwood" such females 

 as Lady of the Meadow, by Chancellor; Barmp- 

 ton Crocus, by same sire; Lavender 38th, by 

 Dunblane; the 26th, 27th and 28th Duchesses of 

 Gloster, sired by Perfection, Chancellor and 

 Cumberland respectively; Lovely 41st and Wood 

 Violet, by Cumberland; Victoria 76th, by Vik- 

 ing; Stephanotis, a grand roan, by Dunblane; 

 Vera and Lady of Shalott, both by same bull; 

 March Violet, by Chancellor, and others. He 

 also bought from Messrs. Potts Lady Athel- 

 stane of Oakland, by Duke of Richmond out of 

 imp. Red Lady, and from Cummings of Buda, 

 111., a Sittyton Victoria of the Lowman & Smith 

 sort. 



The Linwood Golden Drops. Possibly his 

 most fortunate selection, however, in the way 

 of breeding females was the grand roan Nor- 

 ton's Golden Drop, bred by C. W. Norton of 



