502 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



chases were made by the Earl of Coventry, Mr. 

 Cochrane, and for the Felhampton Court herd. It 

 is not too much to say that on the morning following 

 the sale the value of the animals had doubled, and 

 breeders became alive to what was to come. Not 

 onlydoes this statement refer to the Cronkhill Here- 

 fords, but through them to the breed in general. It 

 was this sale which fairly set the ball rolling and it 

 was recognized that Mr. Cochrane, the famous 

 breeder of Shorthorns, would not have come to Eng- 

 land to make personal selections of Herefords unless 

 there was something in the minds of men on the 

 other side of the Atlantic which had convinced them 

 of the truth of what Mr. Miller and others had been 

 for several years previously endeavoring to prove, 

 viz., that the 'white faces' of Herefordshire would 

 increase the prosperity of the cattlemen of Amer- 

 ica." 



It was about this date (1881) that Mr. Cochrane 

 established his Bow River ranch in the Canadian 

 northwest. The cattle were removed in 1884 to an- 

 other and more - southerly range in the Kootenay 

 River coantry, where a herd largely of Hereford 

 breeding was maintained for some twenty years, 

 the impress of the early Hereford importations be- 

 ing evident throughout the entire period. 



In 1883 the Senator's son, Mr. James A. Coch- 

 rane, who was closely identified with his father in 

 the Hillhurst management, bought 40 head, which 

 were shipped from Liverpool on Feb. 8, arriving at 

 Halifax the first week in March. This lot included 

 the bull Cassio 11353, then two years old, bred by 

 Philip Turner and got by The Grove 3d out of 



