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particularly successful sale for imported animals. 

 Seabury & Sample bought the Wilton bull Sir Harry 

 at $540. In 1883 nineteen head were sold at the 

 Exposition Building, Chicago, during the Fat Stock 

 Show, for an average of $580, Benjamin Hershey 

 paying $1,000 for Tulip 3d and $1,200 for Lily 2d. 

 At the Chadnor Court sale in England in September, 

 1883, Mr. Cochrane paid 260 guineas for Eosebloom 

 by Sir Isaac. In January, 1884, another lot, bought 

 by Mr. Urwick, came out from England. Included 

 among these was Sir Evelyn, an own brother to Sir 

 Bartle Frere; at the Hillhurst sale in April he sold 

 for $825, going into the herd of J. S. Hawes. An- 

 other lot, consisting of 17 heifers, was brought out 

 in 1885. 



Mr. Cochrane had three breeds of cattle at Hill- 

 hurst at one time. A note written by the author 

 after a visit to the farm during this period reads as 

 follows : 



"A day in the saddle at Hillhurst, Hon. M. H. 

 Cochrane 's famous estate near Compton, Canada, is 

 a treat which will rouse the enthusiasm of the dull- 

 est admirer of fine cattle. From a point in one of 

 the pastures, 1,100 feet above sea level, a landscape 

 of rare beauty unfolds itself to the eye of the ob- 

 server. The Green Mountains on the southern hori- 

 zon, the hills about Lake Memphremagog on the 

 west, the beautiful valley of the Coaticooke at one's 

 feet, and the undulating fields of Hillhurst with their 

 herds of white faces, blacks, and Shorthorns round 

 about, will impress the visitor as a scene most fitting 

 to be graced by the presence of all that is perfect in 

 the way of bovine beauty. ' ' 



