wick put on enough to make $35,000 and 

 Mr. Kello's flag and the auctioneer's 

 hammer came down. The Americans, 

 who had not made a bid after the $26,000 

 and were aware that Mr. Kello had not 

 been permitted to become a member of 

 the English party, watched this contest 

 between the two English interests with 

 no little concern, and his opponents, 

 although evidently feeling they had paid 

 dearly for the victory, were in high glee 

 that they had won it Of course the 

 price, $35,000, would never be equaled 

 again, and the audience gave itself up 

 once more to various expressions of 

 astonishment." The sale of 8th Duchess 

 of Geneva, however, already referred to, 

 came later. 



The price paid for 10th Duchess of 

 Geneva, however, stands as the highest 

 one ever paid for an animal of the cattle 

 class, where future usefulness is con- 

 cerned. This cow was purchased by Mr. 

 Berwick for Earl Bective of Underley, 

 England, and upon her exportation to the 

 other side of the water that same fall 

 she met with a most favorable recep- 

 tion. She remained in the herd in active 

 service until her death from suffocation 

 from the pressure of an overloaded stom- 

 ach on Jan. 30, 1877. It is also said her 

 lungs were not in healthy condition at 

 the time of her death. 



When taken to England in 1873 10th 

 Duchess of Geneva was in calf to 2d 

 Duke of Oneida (33702) 9926, and in Janu- 

 ary, 1874, she dropped a bull calf, Duke 

 of Underley (33745), that proved a rare 

 breeder and became very famous. The 

 next year, in January, 1875, she had a 

 heifer calf, named Duchess of Underley, 

 by 2d Duke of Tregunder (26022), and 

 twelve months later, by the same bull, 

 she dropped another heifer, which was 

 named Duchess of Lancaster. At the 

 time of her death she was safe in calf to 

 Earl Dunmore's Lord of the Isles (34630). 



The oldest daughter of this cow was 

 8th Duchess of Oneida, and she was bred 

 by J. O. Sheldon, and was by 4th Duke 

 of Geneva. She sold in the same sale 

 with her mother at $15,300, going to Eng- 

 land, into the same herd. In 1878 Earl 

 Bective sold a daughter of this heifer at 

 $15,000. 



In a note in the Agricultural Gazette 

 (England), referring to the death of this 

 cow, the writer says: "Who that has 

 seen her ever went away without de- 



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