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for 250 ($1,250). On the 14th of May ensuing 

 Mr. Day could have sold him for 525 ($2,625); 

 on the 13th of June for 1,000 ($5,000), and on 

 the 8th of July for 2,000 ($10,000), but he re- 

 fused all these offers, which were strong proofs 

 of the excellence of the ox, as well as his exhib- 

 ition value. Mr. Day traveled with him nearly 

 six years through the principal parts of England 

 and Scotland, till at Oxford, on the 19th of Feb- 

 ruary, the ox dislocated his hip bone, and con- 

 tinued in that state till the 15th of April, when 

 he was killed, and notwithstanding he must 

 have lost considerable flesh during these eight 

 weeks of illness, yet his dead weight was: Four 

 quarters, 2,322 Ibs.; tallow, 156 Ibs.; hide, 142 

 Ibs.; total, 2,620 Ibs. This was at the age of 

 eleven years, under all the disadvantages of six 

 years traveling in a jolting carriage and eight 

 weeks of painful lameness. At ten years old 

 Mr. Day stated his live weight to have been 

 nearly 3,400 Ibs. 



"The White Heifer That Traveled," About 

 the year 1806 Robert Colling reared a purely- 

 bred heifer, afterward called the " White Heifer 

 That Traveled," which he sent out through the 

 principal agricultural counties for exhibition. 

 The date of her birth is not given in the first 

 volume E. H. B., where her pedigree is recorded. 

 She was also got by Favorite (252) from a 

 dam called Favorite Cow," bred by R. Colling. 



