422 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



braham (25934) to W. L. Sudduth at $790, and 

 the Pawlett-Booth bull calf Pioneer 12593 to 

 same buyer 'at $400. At this same sale a draft 

 of home-bred cattle was offered, the highest- 

 priced animal contributed by local breeders 

 being the Young Mary cow Beck Taylor, by 

 Dick Taylor, taken by Mr. J. E. Sudduth at 

 $600. The Young Phyllis yearling heifer Queen 

 of Hearts, sired by the show bull Burnsidq 4618, 

 brought $550. 



High prices in Illinois. Edward lies sold 

 twenty-nine head at Springfield, 111., Nov. 15, 

 1871, for $14,940, an average of $515.17. The 

 show cow Jessie Hope well, by a Booth bull on 

 a mixed English foundation, was included in 

 this sale and was taken by J. H. Kissinger of 

 Clarksville, Mo., at $2,500. J. G. Taylor of De- 

 catur, 111., bought Oxford Duchess, a two-year- 

 old Bates-topped heifer (imported by Hon. M. 

 H. Gochrane), for $2,100. The yearling show 

 heifer Nelly Bly of Forest Hill, by Gen. Grant 

 4825, commanded $1,800 from Mr. Spears. Mr. 

 Sodowsky of Indianola, 111., gave $1,800 for the 

 red cow Potentilla, of mixed English breeding, 

 also imported by Mr. Cochrane. J. H. Pickrell 

 took the imported roan cow Statesman's Daugh- 

 ter 2d at $700, and other parties, afterward well 

 known and active in the trade, such as C. E. 

 Lippincott, Messrs. Parks, A. R. Babbage, Wil- 

 liam Stewart, Samuel Dysart, William Smith, 



