THE TURN OF THE TIDE. j 



May for an average of $118. At a sale in Chi- 

 cago they sold sixty-four head at an average of 

 $219, at which Maj. S. E. Ward of Kansas City 

 paid $1,300 for the cow Rosebud. About 500 

 head were sold at auction in Kentucky during 

 this summer; Mr. T. C. Anderson's sixty-six 

 head averaging $227; Vanmeter & Hamilton's 

 fifty-five head averaged $304; W. T. Hearne's 

 fifty-two head averaged $287; I. C. Vanmeter's 

 nineteen head averaged $320; E. S. Cunning- 

 ham paying $1,510 for Sharon's Beauty and A. 

 M. Bowman of Virginia $1,500 for Sharon's 

 Belle. Messrs. Tracy sold forty-nine head at 

 an average of $272. 



The 3,222 head sold publicly in America dur- 

 ing 1880 averaged $144. The British average 

 for the same period on 1.820 head was $175; the 

 only extraordinary price made in England dur- 

 ing the year being $10,000 paid by the Earl of 

 Feversham for 3d Duchess of Underley at Earl 

 Bective's. Sir Curtis Lampson gave $4,900 at 

 same sale for 12th Maid of Oxford. 



The Vaile arid Rumsey importations. In 

 October, 1880, importations of Bates cattle were 

 resumed, important purchases being made by 

 Col. H. M. Vaile of Independence, Mo., and B. 

 C. Rumsey, Buffalo, N. Y. 



The Vaile importation consisted of sixteen 

 head, including some capital Waterloos from 

 the fine herd of the Rev. J. I. D. Jefferson of 



