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brought by other specimens of that famous 

 old family. W. E. Simms of Paris, Ky., 

 paid $1,810 for 2d Red Rose of Brattleboro. 

 George Grimes of Ohio gave $1,550 for 13th 

 Lady Sale of Brattleboro and $1,150 for 39th 

 Lady Sale of Putney. J. R. Shelley took 37th 

 Lady Sale of Putney at $1,050. All these were 

 primarily descended from the Stephenson Prin- 

 cess tribe, from whence Mr. Bates obtained Bel- 

 vedere. At this sale A. Ludlow of Monroe, 

 Wis., bought Mazurka Duchess 2d at $1,700 

 and Albert Crane took Louan 5th of Elm Grove 

 at $1,400. 



Spears and the Nelly Blys. J. H. Spears & 

 Son made a memorable sale this spring, which 

 had for its most interesting feature great prices 

 for a family of cows built up in their herd from 

 a descendant of the roan cow Lady Elizabeth 

 (by Emperor), brought out from England in 

 1839 by the Fayette Co. (Ky.) Importing Co. 

 and sold at their sale for $660. These Nelly 

 Blys, as they are still called, were fine show 

 cattle, as well as capital breeders, and at this 

 sale nine head of cows and heifers belonging to 

 it sold for $11,350, an average of $1,261. The 

 top price for these was $1,825, paid by Mrs. 

 Kimberly of West Liberty, la., for Nelly Bly 

 4th. Most of them were daughters of Gen. 

 Grant 4825. Still higher prices were made, 

 however, by a pair of Loudon Duchesses, the 



