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each since the time of Charles Ceiling's sale in 181 1, when Comet 

 was the first to bring this figure. The sale of Walcott and 

 Campbell, held September 10, 1873, at New York Mills, New 

 York, was for forty-five years the record-breaking Shorthorn sale 

 of history, when 109 animals sold for $381,990, an average of 

 $3504. The cow Eighth Duchess of Geneva brought $40,600, 

 the highest price paid for cow or bull, until 1918, while 18 other 

 animals ranged from $5000 up to $35,000 each, the latter being the 

 price paid for Tenth Duchess of Geneva. The bull Second Duke 

 of Oneida brought $12,000. In 1869 Daniel McMillan sold at 



t t Xenia, Ohio, at auction 



71 head which aver- 

 aged $864.61, while 

 in 1874 Colonel W. 

 S. King of Minnesota 

 sold in Chicago 79 

 head at an average of 

 $ 1 628, the bull Second 

 Duke of Hillhurst sell- 

 ing at $14,000. Be- 

 tween 1870 and 1880 

 there were sold at auc- 

 tion in this country 

 26,151 Shorthorns at 



an average price of $294 per head. Between 1891 and 1900, 

 during a period of great depression in beef-cattle prices, the 

 Kansas Board of Agriculture reports 15,741 head sold at auction 

 at an average price of $138.41. In recent years Shorthorn values 

 have greatly increased, and thousands of animals have changed 

 hands at figures exceeding $1000 or more. In 1910 Thomas 

 Stanton sold the bull Prince Imperial 325711 for $10,000 to 

 George J. Sayers. In 1915 the bull Americus, champion at the 

 Palermo show in Argentina in 1913, sold to Senor Ginnochio 

 for about $33,000 in gold. On December I, 1917, at the sale 

 of Frank Harding of Wisconsin, the bull Anoka Champion 

 555857 sold to B. F. Hales for $17,000. At this sale fourteen 

 bulls averaged $2607, thirty-one females $1073, and forty-five 

 head $1551. A year later Mr. Harding sold 48 head for an 



FIG. 98. Pride of Morning (120551), by Star of 



Morning (121243). At one time leading stock bull 



in the herd of William Duthie, Scotland. From 



photograph by the author 



