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yiuirthoi'Ds we]] establislied, Ijut not numerous in 

 tlie stato. Tins date may be safely fixed, bow- 

 ever, as the beginning of a period of expansion. 

 A luunber of herds destined to more than local 

 2)ronnnence were fouiided, Init pro1:)a)j]y Jio other 

 was so widel.y known and eariied on under more 

 broad-minded management than the one owned 

 by Albert Crane of Chicago, on his immense 

 tract of land in Marion county and called by that 

 generation and later generations. The Durham 

 Park Herd. 



The Durham Park Herd. — The first purchases 

 for this herd, about fifty females, were what is 

 generally known a.j nicely bred stock, so popular 

 in Kentucky and Illinois at that time. Mr. Crane 

 showed but little inclination to indulge iir the 

 ])u.re Bates speculation, having bought only one 

 (-)W, Oxford Myrtle, of that strain. Included 

 among his early jturchases was the bull Loudon 

 Duke 18th by 5th Duke of Geneva. This was one 

 of E. G. Bedford's famous Loudon Duchess fam- 

 ily. Of J. M. Woodruff of Indiana, he bought 

 2d Duke of Jubilee. Both these bulls were 

 strongly bred along Bates lines. 



Although these purchases had been made from 

 some of the best herds in the coTintry, most of 

 them were Jiot from the herds that had the great- 

 est prestige. Mr. Crane was not satisfied. He 

 l)egan operations on a scale attracting general 

 attention. The 23d Duke of Airdrie and the 



