The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-11-01
Is There Money in Fine Stock.
Rural Sun

uuCSu Uc 10 gather tue loilONlDS
facts in regard To the public sales
of fine stock-horses and Short
horns only-which you can place
before your readers if you see prop
er. l don't know that l have noted
all the public sales that have tran
spired in the time mentioned. butl
those that give will suffice TO show
the value of fine stock.
Reports of twelve public sales Of
thoroughbred horses, from April
29th to September 1st 1877. show
that one hundred and fifty nine
animals were sold for the sum of
$76, 1920, averaging per head $4S3.77.
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, Tennes
sees average is better than Ken
tucky's, the latter State selling
ninety five animals for $50, ,l10,
and Tennessee selling forty
three animals for $I9,4S5--Ken-
tucky's ninety five head aver
aging $4I237; Tennessee's forty
three averaging $453.14-making
the average per head in favor OF
Tennessee over Kentucky about
forty dollars. a very flattering show
for our State. The highest priced
col, sold was by bennington; he
brought SO, 500. The next highest
colt was by Bonnie Scotland, and
sold for 1920. The former was a
Kentucky bred colt, and the latter
a Tennessee. The third highest colt
was by old Lexington; and sold for
$3,1O0.
The two well known Eastern turf
men the Messrs. Lorillards, bought
$25, 1896 worth of horses, Mr.. =. Lo-
rillard buying in Tennessee $4,S2o
worth.
Trotters continue to bring paying
prices, hut the old fancy prices are
among tho 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 de
mand 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 gated hores for road and
coach purposes. Reports from thir-
teen sales of trotters, at which one
hundred and sixty-nine animals
were sold, give $37 ,6S7.50, making
the average per head fraction over
1928. The best sale was made by
Robert Steele, of Pennsylvania. His
average per head was $9l3.5S, (not
bad showing for the trotter.)
Steers highest priced colt sold for
ST., ITO, and the highest priced hllf
for Sits. The reports OF sales
show that there we're quite mum
Der OF aged horses sold as trot-
tcrs; whereas, the reports Of the
thorough bred sales show that there
were but very few aged animals
sold, the remainder being yearlings
the thoroughbred horses yielding
more money and quicker returns for
the capital invested than the trotter
AS to the difference ~ value be
tween the thoroughbred and the
trotter, the former sold at an aver
age of $500 per head more than the
latter.
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 favorites 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 conclusiyely, after a
e st of nearly a century, that the
valuation of the merits is not iicti-
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 $449,626,
an average:of nearly $266.6O per
head: and there are twenty more
sales to take place this fall that will
increase this sum TO nearly 500,
600, if we average the cattle 20 be
sold this fall at the same figures as
those already sold have brought
and it is probable they will average
more. No consideration whatever
is taken of private sales, which arc
nearly double those Of public ones,
and generally at better prices.
If we add, say one million Of dol
lars, to cover the sales made pri'
vately, land by examination you
will find the estimate rather below
than above the average it gives us
one million seven hundred and nifty
thousand dollars worth Of cattle
sold as breeders. Now, Messrs. Ed
itors, for a query: How many
scrub cows would a man have u
sell TO realize that amount OF mon.
ey2 Put them at $50 each. high
estimate, and any Of your readers
who are raising scrub cattle car
figure il up for themselves. leave
the almost endless task 10 tha
class; do no wish TO try IL. There
were sold three hundred and eighty
two Short horn bulls, for the sun
Of $SI, ,27O, at an average OF nearly
$2I3 each, leaving thirteen hundred
and eighty cows that sold for 1868,
356, an average Of nearly $267 pei
head. / would be glad 10 give The
returns for Jerseys, but have not SUI
6cient data TO give full report o
them. Still, there is no question
that they are selling rapidly and a
remunerativc prices, and the dc
mand for them is steadily increas
ing, especially in the south
Adding together the amount o
money realized by all three elSsses
II amounts 10 1854, ,233, q very nicl
sum Of ofmoney for four months work
the cattle selling for more than three
times as much as the horses
From the above figures you
readers can form some ides
as to the profits Of good stock
Had we taken into consideration
the sales or thoroughbred sheeI
and hogs, it would run the aggre
gate into millions. NJ j. X.