LORD DUCIE'S BREEDING AND SALES. 141 



LORD DUCIE'S BREEDING AND SALES. 



While we have the herd of Mr. Bates in hand we will trace its history 

 to a recent day, when a part of it fell into the hands of his American 

 successors. We have seen that Earl Ducie bought three of the 

 female Duchesses and one of the bulls at the Bates sale. He also 

 bought two of the female Oxfords 6th, 4 years old, and nth, 9 

 months old, at $656 each. These animals he added to a herd he 

 had already established, of superior quality and excellence. He was 

 a gentleman of liberal spirit in expenditure ; enthusiastic in his love 

 of good stock; and determined to maintain a herd of Short-horns 

 equal to, if not the superior of, any other in England. He purchased 

 good things at liberal prices, never balking at the money value when 

 the creature suited him. His health, however, was delicate, and he 

 lived but about two years after the sale of Mr. Bates' herd. Mean- 

 time he had bred his stock'with marked judgment and success; the 

 value of good Short-horns had rapidly advanced, and the reputation 

 of the " Bates " stock particularly the Duchess and Oxfords had 

 increased in public favor, so that when in the month of August, 1852, 

 Lord Ducie's executors made a sale of his entire herd, the occasion 

 brought together an array-of breeders such as had not been gathered 

 in England on any like occasion since the days of the Collings. The 

 sale had been for some time announced, and several American gen- 

 tlemen crossed the ocean for the purpose of attending it and making 

 purchases, expecting to compete with the elite of England's breeders 

 if successful in effecting them. Nor were the Americans mistaken. 

 They did meet the English breeders on their own soil, outbid and 

 outpurchased them of some of the best animals in the herd, as 

 follows : 



Mr. Samuel Thorne, of Thorndale, New York, bought the cows 

 Duchess 59th, by 2d Duke of Oxford (9046), 5 years old, for $1,837 ; 

 Duchess 64th, by 2d Duke of Oxford (9046), 4 years old, for $3,150; 

 Duchess 68tl^by Duke of Gloster (11382), i year old, for $1,575. 



(Duchess u>8th was killed by the falling of a mast on shipboard, 

 while on her passage to America.) 



Messrs. L. G. Morris and N. J. Becar, of New York, purchased the 

 cow Duchess 66th, 3 years old, for $3,675, and she (Duchess 66th) 

 was the only one of the Duchess tribe coming to America which 

 left any female descendants now living. These gentlemen also pur- 

 chased the bull Duke of Gloster, 2763 (11382), 3 years old, for $3,412. 



