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crushing all competition at the shows. The 

 percentage of cows got in calf was, however, 

 not large, so that the bull's progeny at Forest 

 Grove were not so numerous as Col. Moberley 

 would have wished. Had the bull never sired 

 anything else, however, than Mary Abbottsburn 

 7th his fame would have been secure for all 

 time. We have already noted the great success 

 attending the use of Scotch bulls upon cows of 

 the Young Mary tribe in the hands of Messrs. 

 Potts, Wilhoit and Harris; a success which was 

 repeated by many of their contemporaries. It 

 remained for Col. Moberley and Young Abbotts- 

 burn, however, to cap the climax, so far as this 

 particular cross is concerned, by giving to the 

 breed the champion show cow just mentioned. 

 Her dam was the red Forest Belle 6th, bred by 

 Col. Moberley from the Re nick Rose of Sharon 

 bull Minnie's Duke of Sycamore 57120 out of 

 Sparsewood Mary 3d, bred by Tracy Bros., Win- 

 chester, Ky., from Cambridge Rose Duke 2d 

 22295 (also of Mr. Renick's favorite tribe) and 

 sired by the 4th Duke of Geneva. She fed 

 kindly from the start, and, as a buxom heifer 

 of rare promise, was bought by Aaron Barber, 

 York State's enthusiastic admirer of good Short- 

 horns, at the round price, for those times, of 

 $1,000 after winning the yearling heifer cham- 

 pionship over all breeds at the Illinois State 

 Fair of 1894. She matured into one 'of the no- 



