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and Red Roses, and to these he added from Mr 

 Harvvard, Winterfold, a Wild Eyes cow and three 

 of her female descendants at 210 gs. to 510 gs. In 

 that year also he imported from Canada Third Duke 

 of Hillhurst (30,975), and three Red Roses from 

 Kentucky. His purchases in 1873 were important 

 and costly. From Mr Cochrane he took Duchesses 

 27th and 101st, five Wild Eyes, and a Waterloo. 

 The 101st Duchess was dam of one of the calves 

 which his lordship had imported in 1871. When 

 Sir Robert Gunter had exported the 101st and 103rd 

 Duchess heifers, it was on condition that they were 

 not to be returned to this country at any price. At 

 a later stage Sir Robert relented and made an excep- 

 tion in favour of Lord Dunmore. The 6th Duke of 

 Geneva (30,959) was the notable male importation 

 from Canada in 1873. Four Red Roses were taken 

 at the same time from Kentucky. 



In 1875 Lord Dunmore held his historic draft sale, 

 the auctioneer being Mr John Thornton. Thirty cows 

 and heifers averaged 576, 5s. 6d., and 39 head 

 672, 8s. The top price for a female animal was 

 1950 gs., paid by the Earl of Bective for Red Rose 

 of the Isles. For Marchioness of Oxford 3rd the 

 Duke of Manchester paid 1810 gs. The record-making 

 bull was the two-year-old roan Duke of Connaught 

 (33,604), by Duke of Hillhurst, the price to Lord 

 Fitzhardinge being 4500 gs. Third Duke of Hill- 

 hurst was taken at 3000 gs. by Mr J. W. Larking. 

 On 27th August 1879 Lord Dunmore sold off all 

 his Shorthorns. It was a depressing period, with 



