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bought Mystery at $1,175. Ware & McGood- 

 win of Kentucky secured Campaspie 3d for 

 $1,000. A still better sale was that of Wil- 

 liam Miller's, where thirty-five animals com- 

 manded an average of $583. Col. Holloway 

 was a liberal buyer upon this occasion also, se- 

 curing Princess of Atha for $725, Wave Duch- 

 ess at $660 and the Kinellar-bred Golden Drop 

 2d at $775. Still Bates blood was on top, 

 Ware & McGoodwin paying $3,360 for Fennel 

 Duchess 7th and $1,200 for Fennel Duchess of 

 Lancaster. B. B. Groom took the Craggs 7th 

 Duchess of Winfield at $805 and Warnock the 

 Bell-Bates Duchess of Springwood at $1,225. 

 Birrell & Johnston of Canada also sold some 

 good cattle in this series, including two Scotch 

 Golden Drops that fetched $850 and $550 re- 

 spectively from local buyers. That a lively 

 trade at full figures was to characterize the 

 year in the Central West was foreshadowed by 

 the spring sales as well as by the private trans- 

 fers. Mr. Pickrell received $1,000 early in the 

 year for the young bull Breastplate Louanjo, 

 by the famous Breastplate out of a Louan cow 

 by imp. Baron Booth of Lancaster, the buyer 

 being B. Vantress of Maiden, 111. In Virginia 

 George W. Palmer sold a Craggs cow to A. M. 

 Bowman at $1,700. Vol. IV of the Kentucky 

 Short-horn Record was announced as ready for 

 delivery at $8, a price quite on a parity with 



