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and of the 10th Duchess of Airdrie and six of 

 her descendants to Hon. M. H. Cochrane by 

 Col. William S. King and Mr. George Murray 

 at terms not made public but known to be 

 extraordinary. The transfer of the 7th Duke 

 of Oneida from A. W. Griswold to Mr. A. J. 

 Alexander of Woodburn Farm, Ky., for $10,000 

 has also to be noted at this time. 



The public sales in England of the year 1874 

 were sixty-eight, aggregating 2,165 head, at an 

 average of $323 each, a total sum of $702,556, 

 being 236 animals more than in 1873, and at an 

 increased price of $45 per head, yet lower by 

 $69 each than the American public-sale prices. 

 The exceptional sales in England were those of 

 Messrs. Leney & Sons, of forty-one head, at an 

 average of $1,458; Duke of Devonshire, forty- 

 three head, $1,913; Earl Bective, fifty-five 

 head, $1,816; E. H. Cheney, twenty-seven 

 head, $2,095 all of Bates blood. 



The sales of 1875. There seemed no abate- 

 ment of public interest as the trade of 1875 was 

 inaugurated. As in the previous year, the in- 

 itiative was taken by Canada. John K. Craig 

 made a sale of thirty-three head at an average 

 of $548, Col. Robert Holloway of Illinois lead- 

 ing the bidding with $2,600 for Waterloo J 

 and $625 for the Scotch-bred Miss Eamsden 

 5th. Wesley Warnock of Kentucky took Peri 

 Pink at $1,350 and W. E. Simms of Kentucky 



