760 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



the Illinois show Cupbearer went to the front, 

 winning over Varner's Frederick William 4th, 

 Wilhoit's Athelstane 3d and other good ones. 

 Along with Cupbearer there came from Storm 

 Lake this season the great cows Germanica and 

 Miss Ramsden 9th. Mr. Clarke was showing 

 the beautiful Kinellar-bred Goldie cow Gypsy 

 Maid,* and when to* such as these we add Wil- 

 hoit's Young Necklace fair-goers of that period 

 will have called to their minds visions of Short- 

 horn beauty such as are rarely equaled. Lake- 

 side was " loaded " this same year in the two- 

 year-old heifers with Mr. Duthie's Proud Belle, 

 of a wonderfully wide-ribbed, fleshy type. The 

 peerless Princess Alice was the yearling and 

 she displayed such extraordinary quality that 

 she was made female champion at several of 

 the leading fairs of the Western circuit. It 

 was a great herd and when it gained the cham- 

 pionship over all beef breeds at "The Ameri- 

 can Royal " the Illinois State Fair at Olney 

 it was indeed a proud day for "Willie" Miller 

 and the Scots. 

 Third and last lot. In January, 1889, the 



* Mr. Clark's Gypsy Maid was one of the finest specimens of the breed of 

 her time in the United States. She possessed something of the same quality 

 and character as Princess Alice, and like that cow left a valuable progeny. 

 She was a roan, bred by Campbell of Kinellar, from the Sitty ton-bred Ver- 

 mont 78225 running through Harmony by Pride of the Isles to Mr. Marr's 

 Goldie tribe and was imported in September, 1885, by John Isaac of Canada. 

 She combined rare thickness with admirable finish, and was a milker as 

 well as a flesh-carrier. She was often shown with success, and was the 

 champion female of the breed at the Iowa State Fair of 1889. 



