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at $1,600. She was by imp. Gen. Napier (26239), 

 the Booth bull that Messrs. Parks sold to Col. 

 Stephen Dunlap in 1873 for $5,000 and bought 

 back in 1874 at same price. The Caroline, by 

 Dashwood, heifer Detura, another daughter of 

 Baron Booth of Lancaster, was secured by J. 

 R. Shelley at $1,100. The imported Booth cow 

 Amelia, bred by Messrs. Dudding, was pur- 

 chased by Thomas Windle, Lincoln, 111., at 

 $1,025. Her yearling bull Royal Baron 18238, 

 by Baron Booth of Lancaster, was taken by 

 William and W. Pickrell at $1,000. 



At a combination sale held at Bloomington, 

 111., in April Mr. C. M. Niccolls sold Princessa 

 2d, a red of Abram Van Meter's breeding, sired 

 by Airdrie Duke 5306 out of a Princess dam, to 

 J. V. Grigsby of Winchester, Ky., for $2,000, 

 the same buyer taking Mazurka of Lyndale 4th 

 at $1,825. At the same sale E. L. Davisori of 

 Kentucky paid $1,450 for Oxford Grwynne. 



Jacobs' sale at West Liberty. At West 

 Liberty, la., April 14, 1875, occurred the sale 

 of Mr. S. W, Jacobs, the first ever held at that 

 point. Eighty-three cattle averaged $614, and 

 the attendance was estimated at 1,500. This 

 was one of the memorable events of the period. 

 The Lady Sale Princess cow Maude, by Earl of 

 Grass Hill 8071, was bid off at the extraordi- 

 nary price of $7,200, and her yearling heifer by 

 Col. Wood 13692 Princess Maude at $2,800. 



