540 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Thicket Priory, Yorkshire; Kirklevingtons from 

 J. W. Larking, Ashdown House, Sussex; the 

 roan Wild Eyes 34th, etc. From this importa- 

 tion many valuable Short-horns were bred. 

 Indeed, the Vaile Waterloos became famous 

 throughout the West for their fine quality and 

 flesh. 



Mr. Rumsey's lot included the Duke of Con- 

 naught cows Oxford Duchess 3d, Kirklevington 

 Empress 4th, and Wisdom 2d; Rowfant Kirk- 

 levrngton 4th and Rowfant Peach from Sir 

 Curtis Lampson's; aBarrington heifer from H. 

 Lovatt's and the roan bull Knight of Oxford 2d 

 (39549), bred by R. P. Davies. During this sea- 

 son Mr. Rumsey bought Airdrie Duchess 8th 

 from Avery & Murphy at a reported price of 

 $10,000. 



Sales of 1881. Considerable activity and 

 some strong prices characterized the auction 

 sales of 1881. An offering of fifty-five head 

 from Bow Park made at Glen Flora Farm 

 brought the gratifying average of $516.35. 

 Messrs. DeGraff & Brown of Minnesota* paid 

 $4,200 for Duchess of Oxford 21st; H. L. Stout, 

 Dubuque, la., $2,550 for Kirklevington Duchess 

 26th, $2,350 for 46th Duke of Oxford and $1,810 



*Col. Charles A. DeGraff, who bought this cow jointly with H. F. Brown, 

 was the owner of the beautiful estate known as Lake Elysian Stock Farm, 

 near Janesville, Minn. He was a big, broad-gauged, generous-hearted man, 

 who for some years contributed largely to live-stock improvement in the 

 Northwest, and his death, which occurred a few years since, removed from 

 the fraternity of American stock-breeders one of its most admirable charac- 

 ters. 



