452 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



ing. He was a big-framed smooth one and though 

 in very ordinary flesh was evidently not regarded 

 as anything specially good. Asked what he was 

 doing with the bull Mr. Green replied, * * To tell the 

 truth, if not sold soon we shall be sending him to 

 the shambles. " A price being requested, the sum 

 of 75 was named. Clark rescued him from the 

 butcher and fetched him to Shadeland. 



This was Royal 16th 6459, that fed up to 2,010 

 pounds for the Lafayette show of September, 1882, 

 where he beat both Romeo and Tregrehan. He 

 headed the Earl & Stuart aged show herd until Sir 

 Bartle Frere grew to maturity, and was used as a 

 stock bull up to the time of his sale in November, 

 1883, to Mr. A. A. Crane, Osco, 111., at $1,020. He 

 was got by Chieftain 4516 out of Lady 8th by 

 Zealous 1408, he by Sir Benjamin 36th out of Gov- 

 erness by Sovereign 221. One of his sons, Emperor 

 3d 11227,* out of imp. Silver Star by Spartan, was 

 sold by Mr. Earl to W. A. Colt of Missouri at ten 

 months of age for $1,000. Another, Emperor, out 

 of the famous Venus, was sold to C. D. Hudson of 

 Missouri for $1,500. 



Venus and Henrietta at $2,500. With Sir Bartle 

 Frere, Romeo and Prince Edward to stand for the 

 Wilton blood in the male line, there came the beau- 



*The Royal 16th bulls were growthy ones. In "The Breeder's 

 Gazette" for Oct. 25, 1883, Mr. Earl reported that one of the 

 Emperors, by Royal 16th, the second of that name, out of the 

 imported cow Lofty 7th by John Hill's Merry Monarch, weighed 

 at eight months old 847 pounds, running with other calves and 

 with no nurse, having been raised with his own mother. While 

 there is nothing specially remarkable in this it illustrates again 

 the scale that commonly went with the Green blood, and inci- 

 dentally indicates that the Merry Monarch mother was an excel- 

 lent milker. 



