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auction for ^4000 to Mrs. F. D. Erhardt of Vermont. In 1917 

 Penshurst Farm of Pennsylvania sold Penshurst Mischief Maker 

 18719, a son of Garclaugh May Mischief, for $6000. On February 

 2, 1918, at the Hillhouse Farm bull sale at Kilmarnock, Scotland, 

 19 bulls sold for an average of ^778, eight of which averaged 

 ;^I4SS. In June, 19 18, at the New England Ayrshire sale at 

 Hartford, Connecticut, 38 cows brought an average of ^702, the 

 top price up to this date. Six cows brought prices ranging from 

 ^1200 to ^4200, the top figure for an Ayrshire female. This 

 was paid for the American-bred cow Pansy's Daughter of South 

 Farm 37642, sold by 

 John Sherwin to G. S. 

 Mawhinney of New 

 York. The imported 

 cowLochfergus Cherry 

 33297 sold for ^3750 

 to P. Bradley of Mas- 

 sachusetts. On Janu- 

 ary 15, 1919, at the 

 sale of J. Logan of 

 Bargenoch, the twelve- 

 months-old bull Barge- 

 noch Royal Champion 

 sold to A. W. Mont- 

 gomery for ^7455. At this sale 20 bulls averaged $700. On 

 February i, 1919, at the sale of James Howie, Hillhouse, Kil- 

 marnock, Scotland, the bull calf Howie's Hotstuff 17895, calved 

 March 15, 1918, sold to Mrs. E. L. Howison-Crauford for ^8670. 

 Twenty-two of the bull calves averaged ^904. Finally, all Ayr- 

 shire records were shattered when, at the sale of C. H. Peverill 

 at Waterloo, Iowa, the yearling bull Rosebud Pride 22359 was 

 bought by L. A. Heisler of Iowa for ^18,000, while 11 bulls 

 made an average of ^1767- 



The distribution of the Ayrshire is almost world-wide. Con- 

 siderable numbers have been exported from Scotland to Sweden, 

 Norway, Finland, Russia, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, 

 China, Japan, Canada, and the United States. Quite a trade 

 has sprung up betweeg^g^-jti^iA^.^^Sweden and Norway. In 



Fig. 186. Netherland Bunty, a fine type of Ayr- 

 shire and a prominent prize-winner in Scotland. 

 From a Scotch photograph 



