452 THE BKEED IN THE SALE RING. 



225 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a polled bull 



at a public sale. The Tillyfour dispersion in 1880 



realized an average of 48, Is. 6d., and the highest price 



that has been paid for a polled animal was obtained for 



Pride of Aberdeen 9th 3253, purchased by Mr Auld, 



Bridgend, for 270 guineas. Ten females of the Pride of 



Aberdeen family averaged at Tillyfour 8 6, 16s. 8d.; three 



Charmers 88, 18., twenty-eight males and females of 



the Queen tribe averaging over 65. The dispersion of 



the Balquharn herd (Mr Adamson's) in 1881 resulted in 



an average of 56, 4s. 8d., the highest on record for the 



breed. Pride of Mulben 3rd 3249 fetched 225 guineas 



from Lord Tweedmouth, and the Baads Sybil cow Sybil 2nd 



3526, 180 guineas from Lord Southesk. Eleven of the 



Pride family of all ages and sexes averaged nearly 100. 



At the Aboyne dispersion in 1881, the average was 50, 



6s. At the Eothiemay sale in 1881 the cow Kate Duff 



183*7, ofMrTayler's Georgina family, made 155 guineas. 



In notices of several herds will be found references to 



the chief private transactions in polled cattle. Perhaps the 



most important event of the kind was the large sale made 



by Mr Hannay of Gavenwood, to Mr Bruce, Great Smeaton, 



the amount being between 2000 and 3000. Mr 



Wilken, Waterside of Forbes, who has exported many cattle 



to America during the last year, kindly supplies us with 



a note of the range of prices. For yearling heifers the 



prices have ranged from 30 guineas to 100 guineas; for 



two-year-old heifers from 45 guineas to 100 guineas; for 



cows from 44 guineas to 2 guineas, several having gone 



at from 100 guineas to 1 5 guineas. Yearling bulls have 



been bought at from 25 guineas to 40 guineas for ranche 



purposes ; yearling bulls for herds at from 45 guineas 



to 100 guineas; two-year-old bulls (only a few) at from 



65 guineas to 120 guineas. No bulls over two years 



old have been exported by Mr Wilken. A cow was sold 



to an English breeder at 150 guineas. 



