English: Shorthorn cattle
Identifier: breedsoflivestoc00sand (find matches)
Title: The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Sanders, James Harvey, 1832-1899. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Sanders publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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animalsof any breed of cattle were reached through extraordinary compe-tition between English and American buyers. Six Duchesses fellto English bidders at a total of $147,100, an average of $24,517■per head! and eight to American breeders for $115,300, an averageof $14,412.50; the total fetched by the fourteen lots (three of whichwere bulls) being $262,400! The ioth Duchess of Geneva (in calfto 2d Duke of Oneida) went to Lord Bective, Underley Hall, West-moreland, at $35,000 (the produce being the Duke of Underley).Highland Flower (shown in the center background of our picture)was a roan of August, 1868, got by Mountain Chief (20303), out ofClarence Flower by Fitz-Clarence (14552). She was bred by Mr.Torr, of Aylesby, who built up a very celebrated herd of Boothextraction, and was sold at his sale of Sept. 2, 1875, to Rev. T. Stani-forth, of Storrs, Windermere, England, for $7,500. The engraving-is after reproductions by Burk from Williams Etchings of Cele-brated Short-horns. (210)
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SHORT-HORN COW GOLDEN THISTLE. Color, roan; calved Nov. 4, 1881; bred by Amos Cruickshank,Sittyton, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; imported by James I. Davidson,Balsam, Ont.; property of Col. W. A. Harris, Linwood, LeavenworthCo., Kan.; got by Roan Gauntlet (35284), dam Golden Lady (ofMr. Cruickshanks Brawith Bud tribe) by Champion of England(17526); 2d dam Golden Princess by Lord Raglan (13244). Re-corded in American Short-horn Herd Book, Vol. XXVI. Engravedafter a sketch from life bv Palmer. (212)
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