740 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Marshal's European fame by producing at Lin- 

 wood some of the best stock bulls used in the 

 United States in the recent past. Selected and 

 imported by William Miller for Luther Adams, 

 and a champion female at Western State 

 fairs in her yearling form, she was bought by 

 John Hope of Bow Park at the Lakeside dis- 

 persion at Chicago in 1889. Col. Harris pur- 

 chased her shortly afterward, and for a num- 

 ber of years she was one of the chief ornaments 

 of the herd that grazed the luxuriant pastures 

 of Linwood. 



Bred to Craven Knight she produced in 1891 

 the roan Young Marshal 110705. As a yearling 

 he was broad, low and thick, and was sold to 

 L. W. Brown & Son, Sangamon Co., 111., who 

 fitted him for the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion at Chicago in 1893. winning first prize in 

 the class for two-year-old bulls over thirteen 

 competitors. He subsequently passed into the 

 possession of Mr. Aaron Barber, Avon, N. Y., 

 in whose hands he sired some of the best show 

 cattle seen on the American circuit during the 

 past ten years, besides winning prizes himself 

 at the head of the Avon herd. While he grew 

 somewhat uneven in. his flesh on account of his 

 early forcing for the Columbian, he was a bull 

 of strong character and outstanding substance. 

 In January, 1892, Alice gave birth to the roan 

 calf Prince Royal 118305, by Craven Knight, a 



