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Grwynne 6th Elliott & Kent of Iowa gave 

 11,600. The same firm bought Mazurka Duch- 

 ess 2d for $1,520 and for another Mazurka B. 

 B. Groom of Kentucky gave $1,350. Gen. C. E. 

 Lippincott purchased imp. Malmsley at $1,500 

 and Irene llth at $1,000. Mr. Megibben took 

 Oxford Princess at $1,500 and 5th Miss Wiley 

 of Glen Flora at $1,250, and Emory Cobb gave 

 $1,425 for 4th Louan of Glen Flora. J. H. 

 Kissinger paid liberally for several cows of the 

 Louan family, $1,325 for one and $1,000 for an- 

 other. Rigdon Huston took 7th Louan of Glen 

 Flora at $1,500 and A very & Murphy of Detroit 

 2d Louan at $1,825. John Niccolls of Bloom- 

 ington, 111., was also a free buyer, paying up to 

 $1,825 for Victoria of Glen Flora. James W. 

 Wadsworth of New York secured Lydia Lan- 

 guish 2d at a bid of $1,000. For imp. Lady 

 Oxford H. Ludington of Milwaukee gave $2,350. 

 A feature of this big sale was the high average 

 of the Gwynnes, eight averaging $1,100 each. 



Lyndale sale at Dexter Park. Col. William 

 S. King made a memorable sale at Dexter Park, 

 Chicago, on the following day, May 21. But one 

 specimen of the popular Bates Duchess family 

 was included, and in view of this fact the prices 

 paid were considered at that time quite as ex- 

 traordinary as those made at the great sale at 

 New York Mills. A summary of the highest 

 prices and averages is appended: 



