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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 £86,16-3. 8 d.; 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 Eotbiemay sale in 1881 the cow Kate Duff 

 1837, of Mr Taylor'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 200 guineas, several having gone 

 at from 100 guineas to 150 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. 



