518 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



At the Meredith sale at Cambridge City, Ind., 

 in June fifty-two head brought $20,555, the 

 most notable transaction of the day being the 

 purchase of 4th Mazurka of Chesterfield by 

 Walter Handy of Kentucky at $2,525. At Ste- 

 phen Dunlap's sale in Illinois Gen. C. E. Lip- 

 pincott gave $1,800 for imp. Jubilee Gwynne. 



Albert Crane pays $23,600 for an Airdrie 

 Duchess. At Cochrane, Beattie and Hope's 

 sale in Canada Albert Crane of Chicago, whose 

 purchases of cattle for his 17,000-acre ranch at 

 Durham Park, Kan., have already been men- 

 tioned, came into the market for Duchesses, 

 and took Airdrie Duchesses 2d and 3d at $21,- 

 000 and $23,600 respectively. J. P. Foster of 

 England bought Wild Eyes Lassie at $4,500. 

 Col. Le GL B. Cannon, a wealthy Vermonter, 

 took Kirklevington Duchess 18th at $4,000. 

 Messrs. W. & W. Pickrell of Illinois bought the 

 bull Baron Siddington at $2,200. The fifty- 

 four head averaged $1,709. About this same 

 date Avery & Murphy of Port Huron, Mich., 

 purchased Airdrie Duchess 5th as a calf from 

 Mr. Cochrane for $18,000. At a sale by John 

 Snell's Sons, held in Canada at same time, W. 

 Williams of Massachusetts gave $1,520 for 

 Lady Seraphina 6th, and N. G. Pond of Milford, 

 Conn., $1,800. Hon. George Brown of Bow 

 Park sold at Toronto in this same series, re- 

 ceiving $1,500 from John R. Craig for 3d Duch- 



