SS Missie Ruth 2B3 is another cow that makes my top 10 list of cows. She was a daughter of AF Dividend Impact and is from another famous cow family, the Missie's. This is another cow family that goes back for decades. The first Missie female I fell in love with was at the Edmonton International show in 1961, and this female was named Missie of Eldak 72nd. She was shown by Tup Elken,from ND and she sold for $4100 in the sale there to Melbourne Farms in IL.She was Reserve Grand that day in Edmonton, and she went on to be Reserve Grand at the Chicago International later that fall. I was not very old, but I think it was this female that really gave me the cow bug.
Hilltop, you are right about the cows at Crestdale. The Joans and the Veras were outstanding females. The Vera cow family was started by Jonathon Fox of Justamere Farms, and his brother Frank Fox ( Nupar Polled Shorthorns).In 1981, I took a well known American Shorthorn breeder( who is still in business today),to see the Crestdale herd. He picked out 3 females and he offered the Schulhauser's $25,000 for the 3 cows. They turned this offer down. When we left that day, he told me that he considered these 3 cows to be in the best 5 cows he had ever seen. Two or three years later, the Schulhauser's turned a Salers bull into their herd, and many incredible females were lost to the breed. I tried my best to buy some of them a couple years later, even though they were bred Salers, but Harvey Schulhauser would not sell them.
I also agree about the Baroness cow family as being another outstanding cow family. Another of the greatest cows I ever saw was a cow named Ball Dee Silver Baroness. She was bred in one of the very early Polled Shorthorn herds in Canada or the US, which was the Ball Dee herd close to Edmonton, AB. My mother was raised about 3 miles from where the Ball Dee herd was located so we stopped in to see them when we attended the 1961 International show in Edmonton. I remember Dave Ball telling my dad that he was having some health problems and he wanted to sell his herd of 200+ polled Shorthorn cows. He wanted to sell the herd as a group, and he said he would sell the herd for $300 per cow calf pair. Ball Dee Silver Baroness was in this group, along with some other tremendous cows. My dad said that $60 - 70,000 was more than our farm was worth. How I wish we had tried to get some of these cows!! A few cows like Silver Baroness were purchased by breeders, but the majority of this great polled herd was shipped to market. The Baroness cow family at Saskvalley originated from a cow they purchased from us, named HC Roan Baroness 136M and she was a grand daughter of Ball Dee Silver Baroness. The Glenford Lass cow family was started from a daughter of 136M named HC Baroness Lass 38T. 38T produced two Canadian National Champion females and a Canadian National Champion bull. One of these females was also Grand Champion at Denver. Two of these offspring of 38T sold to Scotland.
