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on twenty-six head, George Otley giving $1,500 

 for Rosamond 10th, P. A. Coen $1,000 for Ma- 

 zurka 34th, Gen. Meredith $1,025 for Rosa- 

 mond 7th and J. H. Pickrell $1,500 for Lady 

 Bates. At Decatur, 111., April 28, Messrs. 3. Z. 

 & T. M. Taylor disposed of thirteen females at 

 an average of $843, including six Louans that 

 averaged $1,399 each, Louan 6th of Poplar 

 Farm, by Aristocrat 7509, bringing $2,110 from 

 E. W. Miller, Lula, 111.; Louan 4th, by Baron 

 Booth of Lancaster, $1,760 from John Niccolls 

 of Bloomington; Louan 5th (by Aristocrat) 

 $1,300 from Claude Matthews, and Louan 3d, 

 by llth Duke of Airdrie, $1,100 from Emory 

 Cobb. 



Kentucky summer sales. The Kentucky 

 auction sales of 1874 were largely attended 

 and made some big averages. At Hughes & 

 Richardson's eighty-eight head averaged $581. 

 Lady Bates 3d fetched $2,150, Geneva Gwynne 

 $1,675, Minna of Elkhill $1,905 and London 

 Duchess 6th $1,775 all to Kentucky buyers; 

 Candidate's Duchess 2d, $1,425, and Wilda, 

 $1,200, to Gen. Meredith; Louan of Elkhill, 

 $1,025, to Leslie Combs; Louan 5th of Elkhill, 

 $1,100, to J. H. Kissinger; Louan 4th of Elk- 

 hill, $1,100, to W. N. Offutt; Mazurka Belle 2d, 

 $1,000, and Lady Newham 10th, $1,050, to 

 Theodore Bates; Bertha, $1,640, to Bush & 

 Hampton. At E. L. Davison's Gen. Meredith 



