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of J. E. Craig, Col. J. B. Taylor and Sumner & 

 Hilton was held, at which Mr. Cochrane paid 

 $4,000 for Kirklevington Duchess 18th. Ayres 

 & McClintock of Kentucky bought the 17th 

 Duke of Airdrie at $4,500, and Mr. Ayres took 

 Grace Sharon at $2,900. Simon Beattie bid off 

 Duchess of Raby at $3,050, and S. R. Streator 

 took Grace 4th at $3,300. Princesses again 

 commanded good prices, quite a number sell- 

 ing at from $1,000 to $2,200. Mr. Cochrane 

 gave $2,400 for Careless 8th, and Groom & Son 

 $3,700 for Oneida Rose. A pair of Constances 

 fetched $3,100, and the bull imp. Baron Hub- 

 back 2d went to M. W. Terrill at $2,500. 



During the year 1875 115 public sales of 

 Short-horns were held in America, at which 

 4,347 head were sold for a total of $1,832,383, 

 an average of $422. During the same time 

 there were sold in Great Britain fifty-five lots, 

 aggregating 2,355 head, at an average of $515. 

 One of the characteristic outgrowths of this re- 

 markable period of activity in the trade was 

 the appearance of Bailey's Short-horn Reporter, 

 issued from the office of Mr. Allen, proprietor 

 of the American Herd Book. It was a quar- 

 terly, modeled on the general lines of John 

 Thornton's invaluable English Short-horn Cir- 

 cular. 



