426 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



bull by Baron Booth of Lancaster, to "Uncle 

 Harvey" Sodowsky of Indianola, 111., for $3,000 

 at a public sale that averaged $603. 



Many important transactions were consum- 

 mated this season at private treaty. George 

 Murray, a Scotchman in the lumber trade at 

 Racine, Wis., who had been a heavy buyer at 

 the McMillan sale, now acquired from Mr. Al- 

 exander the afterward celebrated 10th Duchess 

 of Airdrie. He was using at this time at the 

 head of his Slausondale Herd the 17th Duke of 

 Airdrie, and had paid $1,210 for Mazurka 26th. 

 J. H. Kissinger of Missouri received during this 

 season's trade $1,800 for his Caroline Airdrie 

 heifer by Mr. PickrelPs Sweepstakes 6230 to go 

 to California. 



While all this was going on in America 

 prices were "booming" abroad. At Earl Dun- 

 more's sale Sept. 5, 1872, the English sale rec- 

 ord was broken when Mr. Thornton disposed 

 of forty-eight cows and heifers for over $60,- 

 000, an average of some $1,250. At this sale 

 Baron Oxford 5th brought $2,000. The highest 

 price for a female was $6,000 for a yearling Ox- 

 ford heifer, another of the same family bring- 

 ing $5,050. The part of the Earl's herd not 

 offered upon this occasion comprised his Amer- 

 ican importations, one or two favorite old cows, 

 and a tribe known as the Revelrys twenty- 

 two head 'in all for which $75,000 in a lump 



