PERIOD OF BIG IMPORTS CONCLUDED 515 



United States. Mr. John H. Yeomans of Stretton 

 Court was the home representative of the company, 

 and his brother "Harry," as above stated, handled 

 the American end of the business. Mr. A. H. Swan 

 was also interested in the venture. 



The company entered the trade near its flood tide 

 and sent out some high-clafes cattle, including the 

 show bulls Washington 22615 and Sergeant Major 

 22611, both bred by Allen Hughes of Wintercott 

 and both sired by Rudolph 13478. These bulls were 

 popular winners at the big mid-west shows of 1885, 

 the great contest of the year being the hard battle 

 between the two-year-olds at the Illinois State Fair 

 at Chicago, when Sergeant Major, a bull of fine 

 promise, met and defeated Fowler, Broadbreast and 

 Bowdoin. Long prices were refused for Sergeant 

 Major, but he died in 1886. Washington, although 

 a great winner for several seasons at the head of 

 the company's show herds, was not specially suc- 

 cessful as a sire. He was out of .Plum 3d, the cow 

 that produced Mr. Arkwright's Iroquois (6111) and 

 Mr. Cochrane 's bull President. The company did 

 not meet with financial success, being caught in the 

 downward swing of values that set in as it was get- 

 ting fairly imder way. 



Cook of Odebolt. — Mr. C. W. Cook, a large 

 operator in real estate in Chicago and owner of the 

 great 7,000-acre farm of Brookmont near Odebolt, 

 la., imported more Herefords into the United 

 States during the boom period of the '80 's than any 

 of his contemporaries. He is credited with bringing 



