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average of $1865, and 13 bulls averaged $3457, one of which, 

 Anoka Omega 698327, brought $12,000. In a sale of Carpenter 

 & Ross of Ohio at Chicago on June 20, 1918, sixteen bulls 

 averaged $2800, one hundred and six females $1386, and one 

 hundred and twenty-two in all brought a total of $192,982, or 

 an average of $1370. In this sale H. S. Black of Mansfield, 

 Ohio, paid $20,000 for the yearling bull Rodney. In a sale held 

 by this same firm June 24 and 25, 1919, in Chicago, 38 bulls 

 averaged $3484, while 172 head of both sexes brought a total of 

 $378,505, or an average of $2200. The imported yearling bull 

 Cudham Dreadnought was sold to Hay Brown of Illinois for 

 $19,500. In June, 1918, Bellows Brothers of Missouri sold 65 

 head for an average of $1709, the bull Village Supreme 423865 

 bringing $16,500. On May 15, 1919, H. C. Lookabaugh, 

 Watonga, Oklahoma, sold 38 head for $111,850, an average of 

 $2943. Three bulls averaged $10,316, and one of them, Fair 

 Acres Sultan Jr. 596263, brought $17,250. According to "The 

 Shorthorn in America" 11,011 Shorthorns were sold in America 

 at 199 public sales, during 1918', for $5,664,936, or at an average 

 of $514. According to Mr. F. P. Mathews, 1 in 1916 there were 

 sold in England 5838 Shorthorns for the average price of about 

 $300 per head. Among the greatest Shorthorn sales in .recent 

 years have been those held in North Scotland, more especially 

 the bull sales of Mr. William Duthie. In 1915 eighteen Short- 

 horn bull calves of Mr. Duthie averaged $1744, in 1916 twenty- 

 three averaged $3083, in 1917 twenty-four averaged $3279.50, 

 and in 1918 twenty averaged about $5450. At the 1917 sale the 

 calf Collynie Lavender King brought $14,175. At the Perth, 

 Scotland, sales in February, 1918, there were sold 434 bulls at 

 an average price of $772. Two bulls made high records in the 

 Scotch sales at this time Pride of Millhills at Perth bringing 

 $16,275 and Proud Conqueror at Aberdeen, $16,800. At the 

 1919 February sales abroad Cluny Proud Augustus at Perth sold 

 for $20,000, Pierrepont Golden Prince and Windsor Knight at 

 Birmingham each brought $21,000, and Gartley Lancer at Penrith 

 topped all British records at $23,750. In recent years milking 

 Shorthorns have also brought very high prices. In October, 1916, 



1 Live Stock Journal Almanac (1917), p. 94. 



