328 A HISTOEY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



for $2,005, the highest-priced female at the auc- 

 tion sales of that year. Mr. Bedford, however, 

 surpassed even these exceptional values at his 

 closing sale of 1874, where seven Loudon Duch- 

 esses averaged $3,521 and two bulls $2,033; one 

 cow (Loudon Duchess 9th) going to Mr. B. F. 

 Bedford at $6,000 and one bull (Loudon Duke 

 19th) to W. R. Duncan of Illinois for $3,500. 

 A very superior bull produced by Loudon Duch- 

 ess 2d was Mr. E. L. Davison's red Loudon Duke 

 3d 8542, sired by Muscatoon. This bull should 

 not be confused with Loudon Duke 3d 10398 

 from Miss Wiley 4th. The latter had been sold 

 into Ohio by Mr. Warfield and passed from no- 

 tice before the Muscatoon bull was assigned a 

 name. There were thus two Loudon Duke 3ds, 

 uncle and nephew. Loudon Duke 3d 8542 was 

 shown extensively from 1868 to 1870 at all of 

 the leading Kentucky fairs, and won many first 

 and championship prizes. 



Mr. William Warfield steadfastly resisted the 

 dictates of fashion and clung tenaciously to 

 the right of selecting sires of approved form 

 and quality belonging to established tribes with- 

 out reference to the whims and fancies of the 

 speculative element. While on this account he 

 did not profit largely by the great speculative 

 advance that resulted in such enormous prices 

 being paid in subsequent years for certain " line- 

 bred" families, he stood manfully by the best 



