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each, BECAR and MORRIS jointly taking Duchess 66th 

 at 735, Mr. THORNE securing the 59th, 64th and 

 68th at 367, 630 and 420 respectively. BECAR 

 and MORRIS got Duke of Gloster at 682 and VAIL 

 & GADWALLADER bought 4th Duke of York at 525, 

 with the understanding that he was to be left in 

 England one year before shipment to the States. 

 Mr. ALEXANDER then arranged to have his Duchess 

 of Athol bred to the Duke of Gloster, and the prod- 

 uce of that union was the Duke of Airdrie, that 

 became, as we have already mentioned, the favorite 

 sire of his time in the Middle Western States. He 

 was brought over to Woodburn in 1855. 



In 1858 RICHARD GIBSON, who figures later in 

 these notes, made his first visit to a Royal Show in 

 the land of his nativity. By that time a determined 

 and wealthy constituency had got behind the BATES 

 Shorthorn cult, and LORD FEVERSHAM sent one of 

 his DUCIE purchases, the grand bull 5th Duke of 

 Oxford, to the national competition, which was held 

 that year at Chester. This lineal Duchess-crossed 

 descendant of the Oxford Premium Gow headed a 

 strong class of aged bulls, and GIBSON never quite 

 forgot the impression that lordly beast made upon 

 him at that time. "The way he moved and the air 

 of conscious superiority he assumed I have never 



