100 AT THE SIGN OF THE STOCK YARD INN 



a monopoly of the "pure" blood this side the At- 

 lantic. The following year SHELDON exported two 

 Dukes and a Duchess heifer to England, along with 

 some of the Oxfords. They were sold, after inspec- 

 tion, by STRAFFORD by candlelight in the cafe of 

 the Gastle Hotel .at Windsor, where Mr. LENEY, of 

 Kent, gave 700 guineas for the white 7th Duchess 

 of Geneva. For the entire shipment about $20,000 

 was realized. In 1869 Mr. SHELDON parted with 

 the two-year-old heifer llth Duchess of Geneva, 

 the yearling 14th Duchess and the bull calf 9th 

 Duke of Geneva for a round $12,500 to E. H. 

 CHENEY of Gaddesby Hall, selling also about the 

 same time the 8th Duke, a bull calf, for export at 

 $4,000. 



By 1870 the BATES tribes proper were firmly 

 held by powerful interests on both sides the Atlan- 

 tic; but the speculative spirit engendered by the 

 THORNE and SHELDON exportations and by their sales 

 of young Dukes at prices ranging from $3,000 to 

 $6,000 each, to various American breeders, was not 

 only beginning to tell against the character of the 

 cattle themselves, but bid fair to reach a dangerous 

 height. The entire SHELDON herd was acquired by 

 WALCOTT & CAMPBELL of the New York Mills, at 

 Utica, at around $100,000, and RICHARD GIBSON was 



