766 A HISTORY OP SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



the roan bull calf 13th Duke of Hilldale at $900. 

 The nine females averaged $2,611; three bulls 

 averaged $1,850; the twelve head bringing 

 $29,050 an average of $2,420.85. Seven head 

 of Barringtons, sold upon this same occasion, 

 averaged $360; six Kirklevingtons averaged 

 $352.50; the seventy-nine animals catalogued 

 bringing $43,320 an average of $548.35. 



The old 7th Duchess of Hillhurst subse- 

 quently reverted to Mr. Theodore Huston and 

 was sold along with her heifer 15th Duchess of 

 Hilldale at an auction sale held at Abingdon, 

 111., May 13, 1891, in connection with a lot of 

 cattle belonging to Mr. Strawther Givens of that 

 place, both of the Duchesses going to George 

 Allen. Allerton, 111., at $1,000 for the old cow 

 and $1,500 for the heifer. The 10th Duchess of 

 Airdrie ranks next in Duchess history to Duch- 

 ess 66th, ancestress of the New York Mills lot. 

 The great Woodburn matron that passed from 

 Mr. Alexander's hands to George Murray of 

 Racine, and from him to Hon. M. H. Cochrane, 

 left a family of descendants that sold in the 

 aggregate at public and private sale for a total 

 of about $300,000. The old cow died at an ad- 

 vanced age in 1884, the property of Maj. S. E. 

 Ward, Westport, Mo. 



Sale of the Sittyton herd. In May, 1889, 

 the Short-horn breeding world was startled by 

 the report that the entire Sittyton herd, con- 



