cattle kind." Besides these, Heather Lad 

 2d 7965, a son of Black Knight, out of 

 Rosa Bonheur of Turlington, at 6 years 

 old was first in class at the Columbian 

 exposition. This bull was bought at auc- 

 tion by Wallace Estill of Estill, Mo., for 

 $465, and was regarded as one of the 

 great Angus bulls of America. He be- 

 came a great breeder, being the sire of 

 Gay Blackbird 1443, third prize 2-year-old 

 at the Columbian, a most excellent bull, 

 and numerous others. In fact, over 

 three-fourths of the first prize winners 

 at the Columbian exposition were sired 

 by Black Knight or his sons. 



At the Turlington sale Wallace Estill 

 purchased Abbess for $825, and she 

 proved to be a most excellent breeder. 

 Rumor has it that Leslie & Burwell of- 

 fered the equivalent of $4,000 for Progress, 

 which was refused. Both of these < cows 

 were very large, weighing in show 'form 

 about 2000 pounds or more each. 



Black Knight died June 20, 1891, at 8 

 years of age, and forty-eight hours pre- 

 ceding his death was in perfect health. 

 His last calf was a bull, Proud Black 

 Knight 16738, calved on Oct. 26, 1891. His 

 loss was so keenly felt by Mr. Harvey 

 that he remarked that he would rather 

 have sunk $10,000 in the sea than put 

 Black Knight under ground, for on him 

 he based much of his success as an An- 

 gus breeder. So high were the offspring 

 of this bull valued by Angus breeders 

 that during the last four years of his 

 life eighteen heifers ranging in age from 

 6 to 18 months, realized an average of 

 $425 at public sale, while nineteen bulls 

 of similar age averaged $300. Among 

 these sons were Heather Lad 2d, Guido 

 Knight, Keillor Knight and Keillor 

 Knight 2d, all of very superior merit. At 

 the time of Black Knight's death there 

 were thirty heifers from 6 months to 4 

 years old sired by him on the farm at 

 Turlington. 



Blackcap Judy 40226, the sensational 

 first prize calf at the International Live 

 Stock Exposition of 1900, later sold at 

 $6,300, the record price Angus female at 

 public sale, was out of Blackcap 2d 4752, 

 a full sister of Black Knight. Waterside 

 Blackcap, another full sister, sold to 

 Geary Bros, at public sale for $2,000. 



With the Blackbird one of the highly 

 valued of Angus tribes, it will be clearly 

 seen that the importance of the influence 

 of Black Knight on the breed cannot be 



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