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exactly $1,000 apiece. The stockholders were enabled to reap 
considerable profit on their investments, unless they took into 
account the cost to themselves as individual purchasers of the 
animals. Following the breaking up of the Importing Company, 
Mr. RENIcK approached Bates concerning the purchase of the 
Duke of Northumberland; he attempted one or two general 
importations thereafter but practically speaking they came to 
naught. 
It is difficult to estimate the great value to the Shorthorn breed 
rendered by Mr. RENIcK and his company. Four of the most im- 
portant families of the mid-century originated in the animals he 
brought across: the Josephines, the Young Marys, the Young 
Phyllis and the Roses of Sharon. These supplied the stimulus 
of fresh blood to the descendants of the older importations, and 
spurred on the breed to new achievements in the showyard and 
market. For more than one hundred years, the RENICK family 
was identified with Shorthorn development and improvement, and 
Mr. FELIX RENICK is to be fully credited with the impulse for 
good he thus initiated. 
