718 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Miller purchased Evening Star 2d, anothei 

 specimen of the Crown Prince of Athelstane 

 2d cross upon a Cruickshank cow, at $1,000. 

 Mr. T. W. Harvey, who had also been consid- 

 ered as partial to the Bates blood, appeared 

 here as a bidder upon the best Scotch cattle, 

 buying among others the Brawith Bud cow 

 Golden Gem at $910. Col. W. A. Harris pur- 

 chased imp. Barmpton Violet at $780; Mr. H. 

 F. Brown took the red heifer Lady May at 

 $750; J. H. Kissinger bought Nonpareil 40th at 

 $930, and Hon. Pliny Nichols of West Liberty, 

 la., became the owner of the two-year-old bull 

 Earl of Aberdeen 45992 at $1,000. The twenty- 

 five head of Scotch breeding sold at this sale 

 averaged about $625. 



While the Palmer cattle were selling quickly 

 at high prices to a large and enthusiastic crowd 

 at Dexter Park, the Bow Park sale was in prog- 

 ress at Glen Flora before a small company. 

 Some appreciative buyers were present never- 

 theless, Mr. A. J. Alexander purchasing the red- 

 roan Oxford heifer Grand Duchess of Oxford 52d 

 at $2,050, and Strawther Givens of Illinois Kirk- 

 levington Duchess 25th at $1,400. A majority 

 of the cattle, however, sold below 1500, the 

 thirty-six head making an average of $325.55. 



Kentucky Importing Company of 1883. 

 In the spring of 1883 Messrs. B. F. Van Meter 

 and Leslie Combs, representing the Kentucky 



