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ally as the Australian Colonies were closed against British 
ve stock. The highest price of the year was 2000 guineas 
ir a dam at Mr. W. Angerstein's sale : 1250 guineas were 
iven at Mr. E. J. Coleman's ; 920 guineas at Mr. J. P. 
oster's ; and 800 guineas at INIr. W. W. Slye's sale. Mr. 
lye's twenty-two animals averaged 199Z. ir)s. 9c?. each; Mr. 
ngerstein's forty-three animals averaged 197Z. lis. bd. each ; 
Ir. J. P. Foster's forty-four lots, 1G5Z. 1a-. 9^?. each: Mr. E. J. 
oleman's forty-three lots, 133Z. Os. 8fZ. each. Two animals were 
reviously sold for 3000 guineas each. In 1877, at fifty-seven 
lies, 2455 head realised 134,372Z., being an average of 
4Z. 14s. 8(Z. per head. Some of the sensational figures given 
lav be here recorded. At the Bowness sale of Mr. J. D. 
ochrane's Shorthorns from Canada, the Earl of Bective gave 
iOO guineas for "5th Duchess of Hillhurst," and Mr. Loder 
ive 4100 guineas for " 3rd Duchess of Hillhurst." The Duke 
t Manchester purchased " Duke of Underlet- 3rd " for 3000 
uineas. Mr. Allsopp has lately given the Earl of Bective 
500Z. for two females. At the Earl of Dunmore's great sale, 
Ir. Larking bought the bull " 3rd Duke of Hillhurst " for 
000 guineas. At the renowned New York Mills sale, " 10th 
)uchess of Geneva " was sold for nearly 7000 guineas ; the 
^arl of Bective there gave 3000 guineas for " 8th Duchess of 
,)neida ; " and Lord Skelmersdale purchased " Duchess of 
pneida" for 6000 guineas, afterwards selling her first produce, 
bull calf, to Mr. Foster for 2000 guineas, and refusing 5000 
uineas each for her son, daughter, and granddaughter. Colonel 
iunter sold " 5th Duke of Tregunter " to the Earl of Feversham 
)r 2000 guineas ; and sent another dam to America for 2500 
iuineas. Prices like these have been frequently made and as 
ligh offers declined by Mr. T. C. Booth, for such dams as 
Lady Fragrant," " Bracelet," and other Warlaby gems of equal 
ustre. And Colonel Towneley's " Butterfly " bulls and females 
lOmmanded similar sums. 
; At Mr. E. H. Cheney's sale in September 1877, twenty cows 
-nd heifers sold for 10,527Z., and five bulls for 7896Z. ; "13th 
,)uchess of Airdrie " making 2200 guineas ; " 13th Lady of 
Oxford," 1900 guineas ; " 10th Maid of Oxford," 1605 guineas ; 
i'llth Maid of Oxford," 1400 guineas ; and the bull, " 7th 
Duke of Gloucester," 1850 guineas. At Messrs. R. E. Oliver 
ind R. Loder's joint sale in the same week, " Grand Duchess 
J9th " was sold for 2450 guineas, " Cherry Duchess 1st " for 
1800 guineas, and "Grand Duke 34th" for 1550 guineas. 
So diffused are the Shorthorns throughout the kingdom, that 
hey appear at most English cattle fairs, though the grandest 
[lisplays are in the northern counties. 
