. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . r 113 females and $292 forseventy-one bulls. The top price, $3,995, b>- the Wabash Stock Farm Companyfor the Improver bull Good Cross, 120, average of head was $ 1902.—In Mrs. Alice Morse Earles volumeon Colonial Gardens, published this year,she says that the largest apple tree in NewEngland is at Cheshire, Conn., its trunkmeasuring, one foot above all root enlarge-ments, thirteen feet eight inches in clrcum- 72 HISTORY OP AGRICULTURE BY DATES. fe
. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . r 113 females and $292 forseventy-one bulls. The top price, $3,995, b>- the Wabash Stock Farm Companyfor the Improver bull Good Cross, 120, average of head was $ 1902.—In Mrs. Alice Morse Earles volumeon Colonial Gardens, published this year,she says that the largest apple tree in NewEngland is at Cheshire, Conn., its trunkmeasuring, one foot above all root enlarge-ments, thirteen feet eight inches in clrcum- 72 HISTORY OP AGRICULTURE BY DATES. ference. Its age is traced back ITiO also says that at the old Rhode Islandhome of Bishop Berkeley, who died in ..7r,3,the apple trees ot his day are yet standin,?. 1902. January 30th anid 31st.—Sale ofPoland-China swiiie by Winn & Mastm, , Kas. head sold for an averageof $ 1002, February 4th and 5th.—^DuringAberdeen-Angus cattle sale at Chicago. 111.,the average for twenty years was broken,eighty-two head selling for an average of!? This included bulls and , 4th—Famous Hereford bull. 1!J02, February .jth.—Blackcap Judy, thefamous Aberdeen-Angus yearling heifer, was sold for the record price of .$6,500. C. , of Blandinsville, 111., was herowner, and M. A. Judy & Son, of , Ind., her purchasers. 1902, February 5th.—New high mork inprices of Aberdeen-Angus bulls Ito, sold by M. A. Judy & Son, ofWilliamsport, Ind., to B. R. Pierce, of Cres-lon, 111., for $9,100. 1902, February 15th.—Sale of Percheronhorses by ,1. W. & .T. C. Robinson, of Wich-ita, Kas. Twenty-three head made an aver-age of $ 1902, February 25th to 27th.—^Combinationsale of Hereford eattle at Kansas City. Topprice of sale, Mrs. Cross bull, RoyaltysJava, sold for |650. The bull average,thirty-nine head, was $ The femaleaverage was $ for ninety-six for 135 head, $ 190
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