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female champion. Harris forged to the front in 

 two-year-olds with the Benjamin Wilton heifer Betty 

 2d. This grand heifer had been first at Hamline and 

 many thought she should have beaten Blanche 13th 

 at Kansas City. She was certainly a popular winner 

 at the International. Modesty held down the senior 

 yearlings, and Mischief Maker turned the same 

 trick among the juniors. Lady Dewdrop, from the 

 Harris stalls, was best senior heifer calf. 



Gudgell & Simpson won the grand herd prize 

 over Dale and his harem. The Anxieties also drew 

 the young herd trophy. Sotham's Correctors won 

 the get-of-sire contest. 



The Big Trade of 1901. Sotham opened the suc- 

 cessful sale season of 1901 by selling 50 head at 

 Kansas City on Jan. 21 at an average of $423.50. 

 the 26 females bringing an average of $477. Clem 

 Graves paid $1,080 for the Corrector heifer Happi- 

 ness. On the succeeding day Mr. Humphrey sold 

 70 head from his Eiverside herd in Nebraska at an 

 average of $344.50, Mr. Benton Gabbert giving 

 $1,275 for the cow Erica 78th. At a combination 

 sale held at same place on Jan. 23 Clem Graves sold 

 19 head at an average of $584.20, Mr. J. C. Adams 

 taking the cow Columbia at $1,000, and the heifers 

 Columbia 2d and Carnation at $1,325 and $3,700 

 respectively. At these sales near 200 head brought 

 an average of $380. 



On Feb. 19 and 20 K. B. Armour and James A. 

 Funkhouser sold 104 head at Kansas City at an 

 average of $257. On Feb. 26 and 27 a combination 



