468 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Closing events of 1874. The great events 

 of the autumn of 1874 were the sales of E. G. 

 Bedford and B. B. Groom in Kentucky. At the 

 former seven head of London Duchesses sold 

 for $24,650, an average of $3,521, four being 

 bought by Kentuckians C. M. Clay, T. J. Me- 

 gibben and Ben F. Bedford and three by Illi- 

 nois breeders, J. H. Spears taking two at 

 $2,250 and $2,000 respectively and Gol. Robert 

 Holloway one at $2,700. The highest-priced 

 one was the $6,000 Loudon Duchess 9th, that 

 was bid off by B. F. Bedford. At this same 

 sale S. F. Lockridge gave $1,700 for Cora 3d, 

 E. L. Davison paid $2,075 for Cannondale 2d, 

 E. K. Thomas $2,325 for Lady Bates 4th, two 

 Louans brought $2,225, the 21st Duke of Air- 

 drie $7,000 from J. H. Spears, Loudon Duke 

 19th $3,500 from W. R. Duncan and Loudon 

 Duke 15th $2,100 from S. Meredith & Son. 

 The thirty-five head averaged $1,672. At the 

 Groom sale 119 head sold for an average price 

 of $573, twenty-two head commanding prices 

 ranging from $1,000 up to $2,550, the top price 

 being paid by C. C. Childs of Independence, 

 Mo., for Bell Duchess 2d. 



No less than 2,592 head of Short-horns 

 passed through the sale-ring in America dur- 

 ing 1874, bringing $1,004,159, an average of 

 $387, the great year's business closing with 

 the private sale of the 2d Duke of *Iillhurst 



