720 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



1883, at Harristown, 111., the firm sold seventy- 

 two head at an average of $419.79. Messrs. 

 Hawkins & McDaniel of Miami, Mo., gave $1,100 

 for the two-year-old bull Sharon Geneva and 

 T. W. Harvey paid $1,000 for Red Rose of Glen- 

 wood. It was at this sale that Messrs. C. C. 

 Blish & Son, Kewanee, 111., purchased the red 

 bull calf Dick Taylor of Glenwood at $300. He 

 matured into a good show bull and sire, being 

 successfully exhibited at the head of the Blish 

 herds at leading Western fairs for several 

 years and also siring many good cattle in their 

 Lee Side Herd. This Harristown sale was not- 

 able for the steadiness of the values main- 

 tained. A large proportion of the offerings 

 made from $400 to $600 each and the high av- 

 erage merit of the stock was the theme of uni- 

 versal comment. 



Kentucky summer sales of 1883. The 

 breeders of the blue-grass country remained 

 loyal to the Bates blood to the last. They 

 were never able to entirely forget the service 

 rendered by imp. Duke of Airdrie (12730), and 

 even at this period when Northern breeders 

 were showing a marked preference for the 

 Scotch type the Kentuckians sustained their 

 interest in the historic Kirklevington families. 

 They were not only the most liberal bidders on 

 all Bates cattle offered for sale in the Northern 

 States during the " eighties" but stood together 



