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Annie Laura to S. F. Lockridge, Greencastle, 

 Ihd., for $1,000, the bull Mazurka Lad 15928 to 

 J. V. Grigsby at $1,400, and the bull Mazurka 

 Duke 2d 15927 to Mr. W. Voorhies of Illinois at 

 $1,225. Abram Van Meter sold at Winchester, 

 Ky., Aug. 2 and received $2,000 from R. H. 

 Prewitt for Forest Queen, $1,010 from John 

 Grigsby for Forest Beauty and $1,000 from the 

 same buyer for May Cadenza. On. Aug. 5 

 George M. Bedford made an average of $849 on 

 twenty-seven females, receiving for 5th Duch- 

 ess Louan $3,575, for 23d Duchess of Goodness 

 $2,950, for 22d of same name $1,000, for the 

 21st $1,025 all to local buyers and for 9th 

 Duke of Goodness 11736 $4,500 from Strawn & 

 Lewis of Ottawa, 111. At James Hall's sale at 

 Paris, Ky., Aug. 6, S. F. Lockridge gave $1,060 

 for Sarah Rice 5th. At Silver Lake, Kan., on 

 Aug. 20 the State Agricultural College paid 

 Andrew Wilson $1,050 and $900 respectively 

 for a pair of Young Marys Grace Youngs 4th 

 and 5th. 



While these sales serve to indicate the pre- 

 vailing furor as evidenced around the auction 

 block, leading breeders were making important 

 private transfers. Leney took to England from 

 New York Mills 10th Maid of Oxford and 6th 

 Duke of Oneida. A. J. Alexander sold 15th 

 Duchess of Airdrie for export to Cheney at 

 $10,000! J. H. Pickrell while attending the 



