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bull Lancaster (360). Mr. Booth of Killerby 

 paid 270 guineas for the bull calf Pilot (496). 

 The final closing-out sale of the herd oc- 

 curred Oct. 3, 1820, and like that of 1818 at- 

 tracted wide attention. The forty-six head 

 brought 2,273 15s. 6d., an average of 49 8s. 

 7d., the highest price paid being 350 guineas by 

 Sir C. Loraine for the five-year-old bull Baro- 

 net (62). The total of the two sales was 

 10,126 14s. 6d. Commenting upon these prices 

 Mr. John Thornton, than whom there is no 

 higher authority in England, says: " Although 

 the average of the Barmpton sale, 1818, was 

 under that of Ketton, 1810, there is every 

 reason to believe that it was a better sale. In 

 1810 things were at war price and everything 

 high, whilst in 1818 there was peace and a gen- 

 eral depression upon agriculture. The 'alloy' 

 blood, too, in the Ketton stock tended to pro- 

 mote competition for the purer strains at 

 Barmpton. The bulls are said by Mr. Wether- 

 ell to have been the finest lot he ever saw at 

 one sale. They doubled the average of the 

 cows, and, taking the highest-priced family 

 at Ketton against the highest-priced one at 

 Barmpton, we have the following result in favor 

 of the Barmpton stock: At Ketton the Phoe- 

 nix tribe, sixteen (including Comet, 1,000 gui- 

 neas), averaged 221 3s.; at Barmpton the Red 

 Rose tribe, eleven (including Lancaster, 621 



