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placed in charge. The Duchesses had cost them 

 about $5,500 each. Hon. M. H. GOCHRANE of Hill- 

 hurst, Canada, had brought out three of the GUNTER 

 Duchesses from England, two at $5,000 each and 

 one at $7,500. One of the former he sold to Col. 

 WILLIAM S. KING of Minneapolis for the then un- 

 heard-of price of $12,000! Later on she was bought 

 back and resold for return to England. In April, 

 1871, Senator GOCHRANE exported the bull Duke of 

 Hillhurst to Gol. KINGSCOTE at $4,000. He was 

 sired by the 14th Duke of Thornedale, a bull that 

 afterwards sold in Kentucky for $17,900, and in 

 England the Hillhurst Duke begot the world-famous 

 Duke of Gonnaught, for which LORD FITZHARDINGE 

 of Berkeley Gastle paid the record price of 4,500 

 guineas! In November, 1871, GOCHRANE sold to 

 EARL DUNMORE two Duchess heifers for $12,500. 

 In 1872 RICHARD GIBSON bought from Mr. ALEXANDER 

 three Airdrie Duchesses for export to E. H. CHENEY. 

 And so these ''days of most stupendous follies," as 

 Gol. KING was wont to put it after all was over, 

 proceeded to their international climax of 1873. 

 DUNMORE opened the ball that year with a purchase 

 of ten head of BATES cattle from Hillhurst at 

 $50,000! And in the autumn came the deluge - 

 the New York Mills dispersion. This is not the 



