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cine, a Bates-topped Rosabella by Bridegroom, 

 and her heifer calf at $3,420, and the grand 

 roan Ruberta, another Garne-bred cow, im- 

 ported by William Miller in 1869, at $1,275. 

 On April 8 at John SnelPs sale at Edmonton, 

 Out., Messrs. Day of Iowa paid $1,225 for the 

 Scotch-bred imp. Golden Drop 1st, then eight 

 years old, and $1,005 for the roan yearling 

 heifer Golden Circle. On the following day at 

 Hugh Thompson's sale John Collard of Des 

 Moines, la., gave $1,015 for imp. Raspberry, 

 and J. R. Craig $1,000 for the two-year-old 

 Golden Drop 3d; the six-year-old Golden Drop 

 2d falling to Richard Gibson's bidding at $1,005. 

 About this date Mr. Rigdon Huston of Blan- 

 dinsville, 111., sold the Kentucky-bred Galatea 

 show bull Bourbon Star 11425 to M. W. Fall of 

 Eddyville, la., for $1,000. May 13 the Muirkirk 

 Herd of C. E. Coffin was sold by John R. Page 

 in Maryland, the highest price paid being $1,425 

 by Hon. T. J. Megibben for Muirkirk Gwynne. 

 Leslie Combs Jr. of Kentucky bought Water 

 Nymph at $1,200, and T. S. Cooper of Pennsyl- 

 vania paid $1,060 for Portulacca. 



The Glen Flora sale at Waukegan on May 20 

 resulted in an average of $900 on fifty-five fe- 

 males, Col. Judy wielding the hammer. Imp. 

 Jubilee Gwynne was taken by Stephen Dunlap 

 at $2,500 and Melody Gwynne by C. F. Wads- 

 worth of New York at $1,000. For Melody 



