The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-09-26
Is There Money IN Fine Stock 7

L our earnest ana persistent el-
forts to induce the farmers Of the
South to grow good stock have in
duced me to gather the following
facts in regard to the public sales
of fine stock-horses and Shorthorns
onIy-which you can place before
your readers if you see proper.
don't know that / have noted all the
public sales that have transpired in
the time mentioned, but those that
/ give will suffice to show the value
of fine stock.
Reports of twelve public sales of
thoroughbred horses, from April
18th to September 1st, 1877, show
that one hundred and ffty-nine ami
mails were sold for the sum of SIC
92O, averaging per head $483.77.
Kentucky received the largest
amount Of money, as she sold the
greatest number of horses, and Ten
nessee the next largest amount.
For the number Of horses sold, Ten
nessee's average is better than Ken.
tucky's, the latter State selling nine
ty-fve animals for $39,175, and
Tennessee selling forty-three ami
for S19, 485-Kentucky's ninety.hve
head averaging s412.37; Tennes-
sees forty-three head averaging
$453.14-making the average per
head in favor of Tennessee over
kentucky about forty dollars, a very
tiattering show for our State The
highest-priced colt sold was by
bennington; he brought $4,000.
The next highest colt was by Bon
ME Scotland, and sold for $4,000.
The former was a Kentucky bred
colt, and the latter a Tennessee.
The third highest colt was by old
Lexington +; and sold for So 100.
The two we'll known Eastern turf
men, the Messrs. Lorrillards, bought
S25, 1915 worth Of horses, MIR. p. Lor-
rillard buying in Tennessee S4,025
worth.
Trotters continue to bring paying
prices, but the old fancy prices are
among the things of the past. The
trotting turf is an established sport
among the American people, and
we believe it will ever continue to
be. This will always necessitate a
demand for trotters. This demand,
however, is not confined TO the rae
ing men alone-the breeders will al
ways find a ready sale at remunera
tive prices for large, stylish and
smoothly-gaited horses for road and
coach purposes. Reports from thir-
teen sales of trotters, at which one
hundred and sixty nine animals
were sold. give SS7, 687.5O, making
the average per head fraction over
1928. The best sale was made by
Robert Steele, Of Pennsylvania. His
average per head was S913.58. mot
q bad showing for the trotter.)
SteePs highest-priced colt sold for
$1,77O, and the highest-priced illy
for S1,775. The reports OF sales
show that there were quite a num-
Der of aged horses sold as trotters;
whereas, the reports of the thorough
bred sales show that there were but
very few aged animals sold, the re-
mainder being yearlings-the thor
oughbred horses yielding more
money and quicker returns for the
the capital invested than the trotter.
AS to the difference in value be-
tween the thoroughbred and the
trotter, the former sold at an average
of $3.50 per head more than the lat
ter.
On the cattle sales, we will only
note the Shorthorns in this connec-
ton. They still continue. as they
have for the last eighty or ninety
years. the faYorites with the masses
of the farmers. Notwithstanding
the great increase Of these cattle,
especially since 1910. they bring
better prices to-day than they did
then, showing conclusively, after
test of nearly a century, that the
valuation of their merits is not ficti-
tious. From the reports of fifty
two sales, at which seventeen hun
dred and sixty-two head of cattle
we're sold, we find them credited
with the enormous sum of SAG ,626.
an average of nearly 1856 go per
head and there are twenty more
sales to take place this fall that will |
increase this sum to nearly S750,000, |
if we average the cattle to be sold |
this fall at the same figures as those
already sold have brought. and it is
more than probable they will average
more. No consideration whatever
Is taken Of private sales. which are
nearly double those of public ones.
and generally at better prices. /
II we add. say one million of dol
ars, to cover the sales made private
y, land by examination you will
ind the estimate rather below than
lbove the average.) it gives US one
million seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth Of cattle