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those dark days by the fact that two Gudgell & 

 Simpson bulls made on this same occasion $400 and 

 $430 respectively.* It was at the very bottom of 

 this extreme depression that Murray Boocock of 

 Virginia closed out at Chicago the herd which he 

 had founded some years before at Castalia. The 

 cattle were offered in ordinary field condition and 

 were passed through the ring at practically beef 

 prices. The imported bull Salisbury, that had been 

 bought at the Sunny Slope sale, went under the 

 hammer in his twelve-year-old form at $150. At 

 Kansas City during the October show 52 head sold 

 for an average of $173, W. J. Tod of Maple Hill tak- 

 ing a number of bulls for range purposes. During 

 the Chicago International 49 head sold for an aver- 

 age of $160. 



It was during this period that an effort was made 

 to obtain a share of the Argentine business in Here- 

 fords. Secretary Charles E. Thomas of the Hereford 

 association had been sent to South America to ex- 

 ploit the claims of American Herefords and some 

 trial shipments were made. The expenses connected 

 with these experimental efforts, however, were so 

 heavy that not much headway was made in opening 

 up a market in that country. 



In December, 1908, W. H. Curtice bought Perfec- 



*As indicating liow dull the cattle trade can be at times, Mr. 

 Charles Gudgell states that some years ago he wrote a number of 

 letters to various breeders ofEering and recommending the stock bull 

 Don Quixote, then four years old, just in his prime and i, sire of 

 proved worth at the price of $100. He was half-brother to the cele- 

 brated Don Carlos, having the same mother. Dowager 6th. ' But after 

 Mr. Gudgell waited several weeks and received no response the bull 

 was shipped to Kansas City and sold for beef, where at a weight of 

 2,200 pounds he netted more than the price asked. 



