490 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



$1,100. 2d Duke's Gem went to A. W. Thom- 

 son of Kentucky at $1,200. 



At John Collard's sale the red six-year-old 

 Scotch-bred imported cow Raspberry, by 

 Prince of Worcester, was taken by William 

 Hastie, Somerset, la., at $1,200. For Lady 

 Dahlia the same price was given by J. D 

 Brown of Omaha. 



$3,500 for a Scotch heifer. Shortly before 

 this Mrs. A. E. Kimberley of West Liberty, la. 

 had broken the record for Scotch-bred cattle 

 by paying J. H. Kissinger $3,500 for the cele 

 brated Cruickshank show heifer imp. Orange 

 Blossom 18th. 



Short-horns were enjoying a great "boom" 

 west of the Mississippi. Mention has been 

 made of some of the more notable purchases 

 of Mr. Albert Crane of Durham Park, Kan., at 

 auction sales. About this time he bought some 

 Booth-bred cattle from Mr. Coffin of Maryland, 

 and from F. W. Belden, Kaneville, 111., he se- 

 cured for stock purposes the Booth-bred Hec- 

 uba bull Lord of the Lake at $1,000. He man- 

 ifested his interest in Bates blood, however, by 

 purchasing privately about this same date from 

 Mr. Alexander of Woodburn the white bull Lord 

 Bates 3d, by 24th Duke of Airdrie, at $1,000. 



Groom importations and sale. One of the 

 most prominent of the breeders and import- 

 ers of this period was Mr. B. B. Groom of 



