538 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



its force in large degree and a somewhat better 

 feeling prevailed. On June 30 Hon. M. H. 

 Cochrane ventured the sale of forty-three head 

 at Dexter Park, Chicago, which made the hand- 

 some average of $900. This result was largely 

 due to the liberal bidding of Col. Le Grand B. 

 Cannon, a wealthy fancier of Burlington, Vt., 

 who paid $8,000 each for the 7th and 8th Duch- 

 esses of Hillhurst. Mr. N. P. Clarke of St. 

 Cloud, Minn., purchased the 7th Duke of Hill- 

 hurst 34221 at $3,900. The Bow Park manage- 

 ment took Kirklevington Duchess of Kent 2d 

 at 12,600 arid Mr. Bronson C. Rumsey of Niag- 

 ara Stock Farm, Buffalo, N. Y., paid $4,150 for 

 Marchioness of Barringtons 5th and 6th. 



In December, 1879, two disastrous fires had 

 occurred among the buildings of Bow Park, the 

 institution suffering great loss. The indirect 

 result of this was to force the company to ship 

 a large number of cattle to the States. The 

 old Glen Flora Farm of Messrs. Parks at Wau- 

 kegan, 111., was selected as a suitable distribut- 

 ing point, and several sales were afterward 

 made there at which prices ranged well above 

 the average being obtained at Western sales.* 



The Hamiltons of Kentucky were still free 

 sellers, disposing of 190 head at Kansas City in 



* The Hon. George Brown died in the spring of 1880; his death resulting 

 from a shot fired by one of the employes in the office of the Toronto Globe. 

 The shooting resulted in a flesh wound from which blood-poisoning set in. 



