796 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



purchase and importation of the capital young 

 bull Merry Hampton 132572, a winner as a 

 yearling at the Highland show of 1898, and 

 bred at Collynie from the Missie cow Mada- 

 moiselle 6th by Field Marshal. This bull was 

 landed in Illinois at a cost of $2,000. 



One of the most valuable of recent importa- 

 tions was that personally selected in Great 

 Britain by Mr. I. M. Forbes, Henry, 111., in the 

 summer of 1898. It included about a dozen 

 females from the herds of Messrs. Duthie, Marr 

 and their contemporaries, representing the 

 Missie, Princess Royal and other standard Aber- 

 deenshire tribes. Along with this importation 

 came the bulls Star of the North 132076 and 

 Fairhaven 131977. The former, of the Sittyton 

 Clipper family, was bought from the herd of 

 Her Majesty the Queen of England. Fairhaven 

 was sold at the Forbes sale of Oct. 11, 1899, 

 to Benjamin Whitsitt, Pre-Einption, 111., for 

 $1,000.* 



* At this same sale Mr. J. P. Prather, Willlamsville, 111., took the hand- 

 some home-bred cow Golden Venus at $850 and the imp. heifer Rosemary 

 201st at $825. John M. Blotz, Dodgeville, Wis., bought imp. Gwendoline at 

 $801. The thirty-nine females offered averaged $295.50, the genei-al average 

 on fifty head being $298. This sale was held to close a partnership that 

 had existed for some time between Messrs. I. M. and Caleb Forbes under 

 the name of Forbes Bros., the dissolution being rendered necessary by the 

 death of Mr. Caleb Forbes. The partnership herd had been successfully 

 maintained at a high standard of individual excellence. The stock bull 

 Baron Gloster 101657, that was in service for a number of years, was one 

 of the thickest-fleshed Cruickshank bulls of his time in the United 

 States, an animal of compact conformation, rare quality and a most im- 

 pressive sire of short-legged, easy-keeping stock. Mr. I. M. Forbes, who 

 had at all times been the moving spirit in the management, continued 



