Identifier: breedsoflivestoc00sand (find matches)
Title: The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Sanders, James Harvey, 1832-1899. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Sanders publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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SHORT-HORN COW WATER SPRITE. Color, roan; calved Jan. 25, 1874; bred by Charles E. Coffin,Muirkirk, Md.; sold by him to A. B. Conger, Haverstraw, N. Y.;by him to Albert Crane, Durham Park, Kan., and by him to Messrs.Bill & Burnham, Manhattan, Kan.; got by the imported Booth bullLord Abraham (29056), dam Water Nymph (Vol. XII) by imp.Royal Briton (27351); 2d dam Water Lily (bred by W. Torr, ofAylesby Manor, England, and imported by Walcott & Campbell, ofNew York Mills) by the famous Breastplate (19337). The familyto which this cow belongs is one of the most distinguished in BoothShort-horn history, the foundation being the Bates-bred Waterloos,which Mr. Torr topped out (with great success) by the best Boothsires. No less than forty females of this family were entered inMr. Torrs catalogue of 1868, and at the Aylesby sale in 1875 twenty-one head of this sort sold for over $25,000, an average of about$1,200 each. Sketched from life by Burk, 1883. (238)
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PURE-BRED SHORT-HORN BULLOCK SCHOOLER. Color, roan; calved Dec. 16, 1881; bred by Mr. B. P. Schooler,of Bourbon Co., Ky.; fed and exhibited at the Kansas City andChicago Fat-Stock Shows of 1883, 1884, and 1885, by Messrs. Mor-row & Renick, Clintonville, Ky.; got by the Renick Rose of Sharonbull 10346 Poppys Airdrie, dam the Young Mary cow Miss Byronby Frank Hunt 5650; 2d dam Alice Byron by Princeton 2d 6072,etc. A prize-taker; one of the most noted steers of the Short-hornbreed ever exhibited at these shows, and, while not so successful awinner as the remarkable white Bow Park bullock Clarence Kirk-levington, in the opinion of nearly all good judges entitled to rank;as one of the best bullocks ever seen at these shows. His weightat 1,425 days (three years) was 2,210 lbs. Sketched from life byBurk, 1885. (240)

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