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Hill at $600. The top price for cows was $650, 

 paid by Mr, R. A. Alexander for the roan two- 

 year-old Bessie Howard, and $600 paid by the 

 same buyer for Lizzie, by Marquis of Carrabas 

 (11789), both bred by Mr. Fawkes. From the 

 cow Matilda, by Villiers (13959) sold to S. Cor- 

 bin of Bourbon County for $205 descended the 

 celebrated show heifer Fannie Forrester. 



Clinton Co. (0.) Association. An organiza- 

 tion formed in Clinton Co., 0., in 1854 sent as 

 its agents Messrs. H. H. Hankins, J. G. Coulter 

 and A. R. Seymour, who bought and imported 

 seventeen cows and heifers and ten bulls, that 

 were sold Aug. 9 of that year at Wilmington, 

 Clinton County, at an average of $1,037 for the 

 bulls and $649 for the females. The top price 

 for females was $1,675, paid by M. B. Wright 

 and William Palmer, Fayette Co., 0., for the 

 roan cow Duchess, by Norfolk (9442). The roan 

 cow Princess, by Lord Newton, was taken by 

 Hadley & Hankins of Clinton County at $1,060; 

 the white cow Hope, by Duke of York (6947), 

 fell to the bidding of William Palmer at $1,000, 

 and the roan Victoria, sold without pedigree, 

 brought from Mr. Peringer a like sum. Of this 

 importation also was the cow Lady Jane, by 

 Whittington, a red of Wetherell's breeding, 

 bought by David Watson, Madison County, for 

 $500. She left numerous descendant's. Another 

 cow to which some of our American pedigrees 



