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time of birth. The ages of the animals ranged from two years and 
eight months to four years and one month: 
Beonal Ape. | Increase | Increase per 
from birth. month. 
Monihs. Pounds. Pounds. 
BD Le GSTS LS ee te ps Seen gh, ee Se CAR ete tN 38% 1,574 40 
EIETOIOL eee seen eee Ee eee eee. Meee ces 38 1, 902 50 
HOM e-HORNE este Sts. EAP amet ney Ok, La Saee. Le 38 2, 207 58 
Busnes eee. spl eee. ae ea ee Ds fey 32 1, 998 62 
GY ON sacree cee et : don SNES eo la eels 45 1, 652 37 
EIBTEIOTA pa eee sat Rae ico ceh a ee Pec 49 2,134 43 
UAT LOT ti, ae Se Oe ae ee eee ee Oe 47 2, 274 48 
SURI Nera eee Ae ee on cee 45 2, 522 | 56 
They were full fed on like descriptions of food. 
South American cattle in England.—Alfred Fox, United States consul 
at Falmouth, England, in a letter to this Department, writes as follows: 
A steamer has lately landed here, in fair condition, with a few exceptions, from Mor- 
tevideo, one hundred and forty-two oxen, which cost about £4 per head on board at 
Montevideo; six cows which cost about £3 per head; five calves, which go with the 
cows; two hundred and ninety-seven sheep, which cost about 5s. per head; and six 
horses, which cost about £4 per head. About seventy oxen were killed on the voyage, 
owing, as was alleged, to injuries sustained by the rough manner in which they were 
put on board, to the length of the voyage, (forty-three days,) to the high temperature 
at Bahia, where the steamer called to repair machinery, and to the want of experi- 
ence in the requirements on board in this, the first experiment. 
Sales of stock.—The largest sale of Short-horns ever effected in this 
country oecurred at Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, June 8, 1870, when 
the famous Oakland herd of Mr. Daniel MeMillan was sold at auction. 
Nearly one thousand cattle-breeders, from all parts of the United States 
and from Canada, were in attendance. The number of cattle sold was 
seventy-one, (ineluding feur cows with calves,) producing an aggregate 
of $63,980, making an average of $901 12, or, including the four calves, 
seventy-five head, averaging $853. The largest prices received for sin- 
gle animals were, for a cow, calved in May, 1864, $3,800; a heifer, 
twenty months old, $3,650; and a cow, calved in 1862, $3,600. The 
private sales from this herd, within the preceding six months, amounted 
to $20,100, making the aggregate of $84,080 for the entire herd. There 
were also sold thirty-three Berkshire hogs, aggregating $1,008; and a 
Norman stallion at $3,100. Amount of sales of stock of all kinds, in- 
cluding cattle previously sold at private sale, $88,288. 
The following is an abstract of sales of stock by Kentucky breeders, 
at their annual public sales during the last week of June of this. year, 
the average price per animal of the various lots being given: At Mr. 
Alexander’s sale, six thorough-bred mares averaged $227 50 each; 
eighteen thorough-bred colts, foaled 1869, averaged $471 38; twenty- 
four thorough-bred fillies, foaled 1869, $391; thirteen head of trotting 
stock, $317 31; twenty-seven Alderney cattle, $152 77. At Mr. F. P. 
Kinkead’s sale, fourteen horses averaged $151 42; five buils, $183 60; 
twelve cows, $363 33; three Alderneys, $218 33; thirty-one head of 
Sheep, &c., $17 16; seven hogs, $44 28. At the sale of Mr. Jesse H. Tal- 
butt, twenty-eight cows averaged $221 96; eight bulls, $244 37. At 
Mr. B. B. Groom’s sale, seventy-three cows averaged $249 73; eighteen 
bulls, $185 28; ten head mixed, $83. At Mr. Lewis Hampton’s sale, 
thirty-four cows and calves averaged $323 $2; nine bulls, $255; three 
