. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE AYRSHIRE 425 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, 1918, 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
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE AYRSHIRE 425 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, 1918, 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may hav
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