438 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



and five Wild Eyes. Duchess 97th at the time 

 of this sale to Dunmore was at Walcott & 

 Campbell's, being bred to the 2d Duke of Onei- 

 da. Duchess 103d died at Hillhurst before the 

 order was filled. 



Summer sales. In July Edward lies sold 

 imp. Cherub 11505 at auction at Springfield for 

 $6,000 to J. H. Spears of Tallula, 111.,* and at 

 the same sale Gen. Meredith paid $2,000 for 

 Joan of Arc, $1,650 for Royal Duchess 2d, $1,200 

 for Royal Duchess 3d and $2,200 for two Louans; 

 Henry Clark of Missouri $1,000 for Anna Bo- 

 leyn; S. C. Duncan of same State $1,100 for 

 Florence; J. H. Kissinger $1,000 for Prairie 

 Blossom, and W. R. Duncan $1,000 for Baron- 

 ess Bates 3d. About the same time William 

 Stewart of Franklin Grove, 111., sold a lot at an 

 average of $540, chiefly notable now from the 

 fact that it contained the first specimen of the 

 breeding of Mr. Amos Cruickshank of Sittyton, 

 Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to pass through the 

 sale-ring in the West since the Illinois Import- 

 ing Co.'s sale of 1857, viz.: the show cow Vio- 

 let's Forth, bought by J. H. Spears for $1,525. 

 George Otley gave $1,000 at this sale for Dove 

 6th. On June 25 J. H. Kissinger held a sale 

 that averaged $540 on the females, the "top" of 



* Cherub was bred by Lord Sudeley of Gloucestershire, Eng., and was 

 got by Baron Booth (21212), sire of imp. Baron Booth of Lancaster, out of 

 Seraphina 13th by John o' Gaunt (IG322). He was imported by Cochrane, 

 who sold him to lies. 



