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Kentucky sales bought the famous Booth bull 

 Breastplate 11195 from Prewitt for $6,250. 

 George Murray bought llth Duke of Geneva 

 9843 from George M. Bedford at a reported 

 price of $10,000. The bull had been bought by 

 Mr. Bedford at Hughes & Richardson's sale of 

 1872 for $6,000. Richard Gibson exported a 

 half-dozen females of the Frantic or Fletcher 

 Bell-Bates sort, a Kirklevington cow and two 

 Princesses, and sent word back from England 

 that at Cheney's sale the 9th Duke of Geneva's 

 heifers averaged over $2,000 each! The pot 

 was boiling furiously on both sides the Atlantic 

 and then came the deluge. 



New York Mills dispersion. Hon. Samuel 

 Campbell, after acquiring the interest of his 

 partner (Mr. Walcott) in the Duchesses and 

 other Short-horns at New York Mills, was now 

 ready for the coup toward which the events 

 detailed in the foregoing pages had all been 

 tending, to-wit.: the closing-out of the entire 

 herd at auction. The 10th of September, 1873, 

 was the day set for the event. John R. Page, 

 Sennett, N. Y., was engaged as auctioneer and 

 Mr. Carr of England was asked to write up the 

 herd on the other side the water for a consid- 

 eration of 1-J per cent of the gross receipts. 

 H. Straff ord, the celebrated English auctioneer 

 and editor of the English Herd Book, was cor- 

 responded with. He was to sell the Duchesses 



