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imported Booth cow Joan of Arc, were bought at 

 long prices.- Of M. H. Cochrane he bought the 

 imported Booth bull Lord Abraham by the 

 great Breastplate; and of Chas. B. Coffin, the 

 bull Lord Abraham 2d by Lord Abraham and 

 out of imp. Maiden. In 1875 he bought the 

 Bates bull, Lord Bates 2d by the exported 24th 

 Duke of Airdrie, of A. J. Alexander. From F. 

 W. Beldon he secured the Cochran bred Lord of 

 the Lake. Mr. Crane was now well supplied 

 with herd bulls of both Bates and Booth blood 

 lines. 



In this time nearly fifty females from some of 

 the best herds in Great Britain and the United 

 State had been bought. Mr. Crane 's own import- 

 ation which left Liverpool October 14, 1875, con- 

 sisted of six Bates cows and the Torr bred 

 Telluaria Wassail, illustrated in vol. 16. Of this 

 importation, the cow Lady Mary 6th gave birth 

 to the white bull Panic, and Telluaria Wassail 

 to the roan, Knight of the Crescent, thus adding 

 to Mr. Crane's long list of excellent bulls, an 

 imported Bates and an imported Booth bull. 



Shortly after this Mr. Crane bought two more 

 bulls, the imported Booth bull Royal Deerham 

 from Simon Beattie and imp. Royal Lancaster, 

 illustrated in vol. 16, from John Hope. Import- 

 ed Royal Lancaster was of the Cambridge Rose 

 tribe, of the same origin as the Rose of Sharons. 

 Among the cows purchased were imp. Regal Star 



