254 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Picotee, roan six-year-old ; sired by Robin Hood (8492) Jesse 



Watson, Madison County 1,275 



Miss Hilton, roan two-year-old, bred by T. Raine David 



Watson 875 



Princess, roan three-year-old, bred by W. Raine William 



Watson, Clark County 690 



Blossom, roan yearling, bred by R. Thornton David Wat- 

 son 650 



Victoria, roan three-year-old, bred by W. Raine ; afterward 

 property of James Fullington J. Q. Winchell, Madison 

 County 600 



Alexandrina, white yearling, bred by T. Raine David Wat- 

 son -. . . 560 



Yorkshire Dairy Cow (not pedigreed) Joseph Negley, Clark 



County 425 



Monsoon (not pedigreed) , dam Yorkshire Dairy Cow Jos. 



Reyburn, Madison County 295 



15 bulls sold for $17,355 ; an average of $1,157 



9 females sold for 6,720 ; an average of 747 



24 animals sold for 24,075 ; an average of . . , 1,003 



Northern Kentucky Association. In 1853 

 an association of Kentucky breeders under this 

 title commissioned Messrs. Solomon Vanmeter, 

 Nelson Dudley and Charles T. Garrard to pro- 

 ceed to England for the purchase of cattle. 

 Fifteen cows and ten bulls were selected and 

 imported in July of that year, which were sold 

 at auction soon after their arrival at the farm 

 of B. J. Clay, in Bourbon County, at the extra- 

 ordinary prices noted below: 



BULLS. 



Diamond (11357), roan three-year-old, bred by Earl Fever- 

 sham B. J. Clay, H. Clay Jr., George M. Bedford and 

 J. Duncan, Bourbon County $6,000 



Challenger (14252) , roan yearling, bred by Earl Ducie ; sired 

 by 4th Duke of York (10167) ; dam Chaplet by Usurer 

 (9763) , running to Magdalena by Comet Isaac and Solo- 

 mon Vanmeter and T. L. Cunningham, Clark County. . . 4,850 



