. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 242 CATTLE. each since the time of Charles Colhng's sale in 1811, when Comet was the first to bring this figure. The sale of Walcott and Campbell, held September 10, 1873, at New York Mills, New York, was for forty-five years the record-breaking Shorthorn sale of history, when 109 animals sold for ^381,990, an average of ^3504. The cow Eighth Duchess of Geneva brought ^40,600, the highest price paid for cow or bull, until 1918, while 18 other animals ranged from $5000 up to ;^3 5,000 each, the latter being the price paid for Tenth Duchess of Genev
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 242 CATTLE. each since the time of Charles Colhng's sale in 1811, when Comet was the first to bring this figure. The sale of Walcott and Campbell, held September 10, 1873, at New York Mills, New York, was for forty-five years the record-breaking Shorthorn sale of history, when 109 animals sold for ^381,990, an average of ^3504. The cow Eighth Duchess of Geneva brought ^40,600, the highest price paid for cow or bull, until 1918, while 18 other animals ranged from $5000 up to ;^3 5,000 each, the latter being the price paid for Tenth Duchess of Geneva. The bull Second Duke of Oneida brought ^12,000. In 1869 Daniel McMillan sold at Xenia, Ohio, atauction 71 head which aver- aged $, while in 1874 Colonel W. S. King of Minnesota sold in Chicago 79 head at an average of $1628, the bull Second Duke of Hillhurst sell- ing at $14,000. Be- tween 1870 and 1880 there were sold at auc- tion in this country 26,151 Shorthorns at an average price of $294 per head. Between 1891 and 1900, during a period of great depression in beef-cattle prices, the Kansas Board of Agriculture reports 15,741 head sold at auction at an average price of $ In recent years Shorthorn values have greatly increased, and thousands of animals have changed hands at figures exceeding $1000 or more. In 1910 Thomas Stanton sold the bull Prince Imperial 325711 for $10,000 to George J. Sayers. In 1915 the bull Americus, champion at the Palermo show in Argentina in 1913, sold to Senor Ginnochio for about $33,000 in gold. On December i, 1917, at the sale of Frank Harding of Wisconsin, the bull Anoka Champion 555857 sold to B. F. Hales for $17,000. At this sale fourteen bulls averaged $2607, thirty-one females $1073, and forty-five head $1551. A year later Mr. Harding sold 48 head for an Digitized by Microsoft® Fig. 98. Pride of Morning (120551), by Star of Morning (121243). At one time leading stock bull in the herd of William Duthie, Scotland. From photogr
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