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of the Sittyton blood. George Brown, of Bow Park farm, 
will go down in history as a prominent factor in Canadian 
Shorthorn activity. Among other Canadian breeders 
and importers were John M. Armstrong, Arthur Johnson, 
W.B. Telfar, W. Major, William Collum, Thomas Russell, 
Francis Green and George Whitfield. 
241. Important events in Shorthorn history since 
1860. — In 1869 and 1870, Messrs. Walcott and Camp- 
bell, of New York, imported Booth Shorthorns and the 
entire Sheldon herd of Duchesses and Oxfords. This 
was the beginning of the greatest boom in Bates cattle 
in the United States. In 1867, Colonel W. S. Ning, of 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded his important herd in 
the northwest. From 1860 to 1880, Shorthorns of Bates 
families were undoubtedly preéminently popular in the 
United States. In Canada, however, Scotch Shorthorns 
were gaining in popularity. 
The first sale of cattle ever held in Dexter Park, Chicago, 
was in the year 1872. These were prosperous times for 
Shorthorn breeders. This prosperity extended into the 
next year and culminated in one of the greatest if not the 
greatest public sale of pedigreed cattle held in the world, 
namely, the New York Mills sale of Walcott and Camp- 
bell, September 10, 1873. This herd contained the only 
living Duchesses which were descended direct from the 
Bates herd without the admixture of blood from other 
sources. The sale was very largely attended by Short- 
horn fanciers from Great Britain, Canada and the United 
States. At this sale the eighth Duchess of Geneva brought 
$40,600, and many others were sold at fabulous prices. 
Almost immediately following this sale there came a 
period of financial depression, and Shorthorn cattle 
gradually decreased in value for a few years. 
