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Oxford Wiley 8753 fetched $705 and several 

 other bulls brought from $400 to $500 each, 

 The seven-year-old Young Mary cow Red Rose 

 3d, a red-roan of Ben F. Van Meter's breeding, 

 went to George Otley of Neponset, 111., at 

 $1,500. The red cow Gem 3d, also of Van 

 Meter's breeding, fetched $1,150, going to Ed 

 lies, Springfield, 111. The cow Oxford Belle, 

 bred at Woodburn, made $1,000 to Robert 

 Otley, Neponset, 111. Others were sold at from 

 $400 to $750. 



The beginning of live-stock journalism. 

 It may be of interest at this point to note 

 that from the month of May, 1869, may be 

 dated the beginning of live-stock journalism 

 as a special feature of agricultural newspaper 

 work. Upon that date Mr. J. H. Sanders, 

 founder of the Breeder's Gazette, began the 

 publication of a sixteen-page monthly called 

 the Western Stock Journal, issued at Sigourney, 

 la., the initial number presenting a portrait of 

 Mr. McMillan's celebrated Louan 21st. Mr. 

 Sanders was at that time interested in stock- 

 breeding himself, and feeling the need person- 

 ally of information bearing upon the business 

 took advantage of his ownership of a small 

 country printing-office to undertake on his 

 own account the first venture of this kind of 

 which we have record. The publication ac- 

 quired immediate popularity and its success 



