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Park at $2,800; Kirklevington Duchess of Kent 

 2d, Avery & Murphy, $2,000; Wild Eyes of Vine- 

 wood, same firm, $2,800; Winsome 16th, taken 

 to Bow Park at $2,600; Miss Wild Eyes 3d, Hon. 

 M. H. Cochrane, $1,900; Lally 8th and Barring- 

 ton Lally, A. L. Hamilton, $1,550 and $1,525 re- 

 spectively; May Rose 4th, Col. Le G. B. Cannon, 

 $2,010; Bell Duchess, A. F. Duckworth, $1,325; 

 2d and 4th Duchesses of Vinewood, C. H. An- 

 drews, Youngstown, 0., $1,225 and $1,075 re- 

 spectively; 6th Duchess of Vinewood, S. White, 

 Windsor, Ont., $1,100; 15th Lady of Oxford, 

 bought for Bow Park at $1,000. T. Corwin 

 Anderson of Side -View, Kentucky, was a free 

 buyer at this sale. 



At H. N. Moore's sale in Iowa T. R. Westrope 

 paid $2,150 for the roan Bates Secret cow Silver 

 Lady, bred by J. P. Foster of Killhow and im- 

 ported by John Hope. Notwithstanding occa- 

 sional prices of this sort the 2,048 head sold at 

 auction in America during 1878 averaged but 

 $154. The situation abroad was better, as the 

 English were doing business with more capital. 

 During the same period 2,877 head were sold 

 in Great Britain at an average of $285. 



Top prices in England for 1878. Earl Bec- 

 tive sold privately to Allsopp of Hindlip Hall 

 six head for about $55,000; among the number 

 being 8th Duchess of Oneida, purchased at New 

 York Mills and now transferred at a reported 



