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13414, a roan two-year-old bought at the sale 

 by C. Estill of Madison County at the top price 

 of $1,525; the bull Pathfinder 805, a roan year- 

 ling, taken by Messrs. Webb & Ford of Scott 

 County at $860, and the cows Venus by Fair 

 Eclipse (11456), sold to J. Hill of Bourbon 

 County at $710, and Carnation by Budget 

 22265, bought by C. W. Innes, Fayette County, 

 at $610. The entire lot brought $7,535, an av- 

 erage of $685. 



In 1854 the same parties who had been inter- 

 ested in the Scott County Co. organized again 

 under the name of the Kentucky Importing Co. 

 and sent Messrs. Wesley Warnock and James 

 Bagg to England for a second lot of cattle. 

 They purchased six bulls and fifteen cows and 

 heifers that were placed upon the farm of C. 

 W. Innes, near Lexington, and in October, 1854, 

 five of the bulls and fourteen of the females 

 were sold at auction, the former averaging 

 $994 and the latter $390. This sale was mem- 

 orable from the fact that Mr. R. A. Alexander, 

 whose extensive operations are shortly to be 

 noticed, paid $3,500 for the roan two-year-old 

 bull Sirius (13737), bred by E. Ackroyd; sired 

 by Concord (11302) out of a daughter of Mr. 

 Fawkes' Fairy Tale, that was also the dam of 

 Fortunatus 1564. The next highest-priced bull 

 was the roan yearling MacGregor 675 also of 

 Fawkes' breeding that was taken by John 



