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Stockmen, Write for Your Paper.

Hon. A.M. Garland is expected home from Australia about the first of
February.

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Col. J.W. Judy & Son, the popular thoroughbred cattle auctioneers of
Tallula, Ill., last year sold 2,057 head of cattle for $500,620.

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Ohio Jersey cattle-breeders will hold a convention at Columbus, on the
15th. The Short-horn breeders of the State will meet at the same city on
the same day.

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Mr. C. Huston, Blandinsville, Ill., has gone to Scotland to purchase
Clydesdale horses. He expects to be gone about half the year, and will
make several shipments.

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Wm. Yule, Esq., the well-known Short-horn breeder, of Somers, Kenosha
county, Wisconsin, names, through THE PRAIRIE FARMER, March 19th prox.,
for his public sale for 1884.

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At the annual meeting of the American Guernsey Cattle Club, held at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, December 20th, Dr. J. Nelson Borland, New
London, Conn., was re-elected President; Edward Norton was chosen
Secretary and Treasurer.

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Three new cases of pleuro-pneumonia were re