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Col. King's Dexter Park average of 1874 as the 

 highest ever made in the Western States. The 

 celebrated show bull Breastplate 11431, for 

 which Mr. Pickrell had paid $6,000, was bought 

 by Mrs. Kimberly for $6,100. This bull was a 

 red, bred by Hon. M. H. Cochrane from Star of 

 the Realm 9150 out of Bright Lady by Lord 

 Blithe (22126). He was largely of Booth blood 

 and at the shows of 1872 and 1873 had won 

 over $1,000 in cash prizes. Some fine speci- 

 mens of the Bedford Bride family and choice 

 show things of the Louan sort brought " four 

 figures." A. E. Kimberly paid $2,850 for the 

 red cow Lady Bride, by imp. Baron Booth of 

 Lancaster out of Bride 15th by Airdrie 2478. 

 E. W. Miller, Raymond, 111., took the splendid 

 roan Baron Booth of Lancaster heifer Louan 

 Hill 5th, then three years old, at $2,000. Wil- 

 liam and W. Pickrell bought Louan Hill 4th, a 

 four-year-old roan, also by Baron Booth of Lan- 

 caster, at $1,925, and resold her to Col. Robert 

 Holloway for $2,225. Louan Hill 3d, a red- 

 roan five-year-old daughter of Sweepstakes 

 6230, went to L. B. Wing of Bement, 111., at 

 $1,225. Another Baron Booth of Lancaster 

 heifer, Caroline Cochrane (out of an llth Duke, 

 of Airdrie cow tracing to imp. Caroline by Ar- 

 row), was bought by J. H. Kissinger & Co. for 

 $1,800. The red-roan two-year-old heifer Jubi- 

 lee Napier fell to the bidding of A. E. Kimberly 



