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out necessarily being fat. He was built close to the 

 ground and had a hide on him as the saying is, 'like 

 a bull pup's'. At a little past a year old he gave 

 promise of having a decidedly drooping horn, a 

 characteristic which along with natural thick flesh he 

 has transmitted to his descendants in a remarkable 

 degree. 



"He came from one of our very best families. 

 His sire and dam, grandsires and grandams were 

 all extra good. Beau BrummePs record as a breeder 

 is well known, but when it is noted that Donna 33735, 

 the dam of Beau Donald, is out of Dowager 6th 

 6932, a cow that was also the dam of Don Carlos and 

 Don Quixote, it can readily be seen that he was no 

 accident, but came, by his good qualities honestly. 

 Dowager 6th was bred by Mr. T. Lewis, Woodhouse, 

 the well known English breeder from whom we se- 

 cured her, and was one of the best cows in all our 

 importations. She was a very smooth, medium- 

 sized cow and had a decided droop to her horns (a 

 feature we desired to cultivate) and transmitted the 

 same characteristic to all her produce. Donna 33735, 

 mother of Beau Donald, also had a pronouncedly 

 drooping horn. She was a straight-lined, low-down 

 cow of the breedy type and above the average size 

 and weight. She died at the age of seventeen years. ' '* 



There was nothing special to be observed in the 

 make-up of the calf in his earlier days at the side of 

 his dam, but as he came along into bullhood he was 

 picked up by H. B. Watts, a man who had ever a 



*The somewhat unsatisfactory portrait of Mr. W. H. Curtice 

 appearing in this volume shows him mounted on his favorite 

 saddle horse, Champagne, so called because of his peculiar color. 

 Like all Kentuckians, Mr. Curtice has a fondness for a good saddle 

 horse, and in speaking of Champagne he states that he can go 

 a running walk at a 9-mile-an-hour gait "without shaking the 

 rider in the least." Moreover, this horse is a successful weight- 

 carrier, having won several prizes over large fields in the blue- 

 grass shows with Mr. Curtice up. 



