516 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



12880. At A. J. Dunlap's sale Mr. Spears paid 

 $1,300 for Fanny Hunt 5th, and George Otley 

 of Neponset, 111., $1,060 for Sonsie Lass 2d. 



Potts buys imp. Duke of Richmond. At 

 Springfield, 111., on May 3 J. H. Kissinger sold 

 twenty-two cattle for $25,335, an average of 

 $1,152. D. A. Rouner of Newark, Mo., bid off 

 the bull 2d Marquis of Worcester at $3,000 and 

 the cow Knightley Belle at $2,275. J. H. Potts 

 & Son bought the Scotch-bred imp. Duke of 

 Richmond for $2,250, the cow Mattie Richard- 

 son at $1,805, and 2d Louan of Linwood at 

 $1,850. W. & W. Pickrell took Caroline Coch- 

 rane at $2,100. A. E. Kimberley of West Lib- 

 erty paid $2,700 for Loudon Duchess of Bedford. 

 Mr. J. H. Pickrell owned a half interest in the 

 cow last named, and at the same time and 

 place sold ten head of cattle at an average of 

 $862, including Countess of Cornwall at $2,050 

 to Col. Robert Holloway and Countess of Ox- 

 ford 4th at $1,500 to James N. Brown's Sons 

 On the following day Messrs. Spears, lies, et al. 3 

 sold at Springfield ; Harvey Sodowsky paying 

 $1,600 for Airdrie Bloom, and Winslow Bros, of 

 Kankakee $1,025 for Prairie Blossom. 



Col. Holloway's big average. On May 25 

 Col. Robert Holloway sold sixty-three cattle 

 at Dexter Park, Chicago, for an average of 

 $1,087. The top price was $4,250, given by A. 

 J. Streeter of New Windsor, 111., for Rose of 



