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stock-getter but was also shown with success 

 at Cleveland (Ohio), Toronto and London in 

 1878 and 1879. He remained at the head of 

 the Bow Park Herd until his death, which oc- 

 curred in 1887. 



Opening sales of 1876. The sales this year 

 opened in Iowa, where a large number of cat- 

 tle were offered at West Liberty and Des Moines. 

 No sensational prices were made except at S. 

 W. Jacobs' sale, where 2d Peri of Lyndale was 

 bid off at $7,050 by D. S. Bussing of New York. 

 D. M. Flynn took Roan Princess at $3,900. Bus- 

 sing bought Lucy Napier at $2,475, and Minnie 

 Annandale 2d for $2,500. For London's Minnie 

 D. Wilson of West Liberty gave $2,550. For 

 Nelly Bly 7th Rigdon Huston of Illinois paid 

 $1,975. The bull Oxford of Springwood fetched 

 $2,000 from John R. Owens of Illinois. Jacobs' 

 146 head brought $86,895, an average of $595. 

 C. S. Barclay sold eighty-eight head for $27,275, 

 and Campbell & Chase ninety-seven head for 

 $27,446. 



In Illinois Davis Lowman of Toulon held a 

 sale which was topped by the Cruickshank cow 

 Red Lady 3d, bought by W. & W. Pickrell for 

 $1,200. A. J. Dunlap paid $1,010 for the Scotch- 

 bred imp. Lovely 18th, and at the same sale 

 Winfield Scott, Wyoming, 111., bought Miss 

 Wiley of Green Lawn for $1,100, and J. H. 

 Spears paid $1,005 for the bull Sam Wiley 



