474 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



13th and 17th of the line, the former, by 5th 

 Duke of Geneva, going to S. W. Jacobs of West 

 Liberty, la., at $3,200, and the latter, by 21st 

 Duke of Airdrie, to E. K. Thomas of North 

 Middletown, Ky., at $2,750. Mr. E. C. Lewis 

 paid $1,600 for Magenta 2d, by Gen. Grant, and 

 J. E. Conover, Petersburg, 111., took her dam, 

 the McMillan-bred Magenta, by Plantagenet, 

 at $1,325. James N. Brown's Sons of Grove 

 Park, Sangamon Co., 111., paid $1,995 for High- 

 land Lady 2d, by Royal Oakland 9034, tracing 

 to imp. Western Lady, by the celebrated Grand 

 Turk (12969). This cow's heifer by Col. Towne : 

 ley 13691 went to Mr. Conover at $1,750. C. w! 

 Goff of Monmouth, 111., bought 14th Louan of 

 Woodlawn, a daughter of the Woodburn-bred 

 Laudable 5890, at $1,650. Duchess of York 9th, 

 a Canadian-bred roan, fetched $1,000 from Al- 

 bert Crane. The imported cow Lady High- 

 thorn was bought by Mr. Conover at $1,000. 

 The Cruickshank cow Violet's Forth, then in 

 her ninth year and belonging to a family of 

 cattle practically unknown at that time in the 

 West, went to Mrs. Kimberly at $1,000. The 

 21st Duke of Airdrie was purchased by Gen. 

 Lippincott at $10,500. The forty head sold 

 brought an average of $1,163. 



Pickrell's great sale. J. H. Pickrell's sale 

 of twenty-three head at Decatur, 111., April 27. 

 1875, at an average of $1,265 stands next to 



