The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-20
A Wonderful Auction.
.Sparfonburg Spurfun

vile, Tenn, along with several other
gentlemen, to attend the executor S
sale of the live stock of the late Mr..
Campbell Brown, I have thought it
not out Of place to let your readers
know something about the sale, and
what we brought back. Ewcll Farm,
where we went, is 33 miles south Of
Nashville, on the road to Birming-
ham, Ala, and is one of the finest
and largest farms l have ever visited.
1t consists of some 1000 to 5000
acres of the finest sort Of limestone
land, and is devoted to raising grain,
trotting and pacing horses, Shetland
ponies, Creole and Morgan ponies
crossed, and Jersey cattle. 1t would
do the cotton farmers of our State
good to see such farm. The wheat
looked as if it might make 20 to 30
bushels per acre, with all other crops
on par with it. The whole farm was
under cultivation, with no woods, no
old fields, or quilted, Or bare hillsides.
Every acre was in grass or grain,
which presented a charming prospect
to cotton farmers eye. The first
thing that l saw, on getting out of the
cars at Ewell Station, was large two
story barn with "Ewcll Farm Barn
printed on the roof. with the whole
face of the country beyond it, covered
with the finest herd of Jerseys on the
continent, looking as fat and as slick,
and as beautiful as could be. The
same evening I 'aw around this
barn, sixty head OF milch cows, forty
of which had tested records of from IA
to 81 pounds of butter per week.
Every animal seemed to be perfect.
At last the gate of the barn was open
cd, and these sixty head of COWS
marched in, and arranged themselves
in the stalls in four parallel rows the
length of the barn; row one facing
row two, but, with a pass way between
the heads of the COWS, 5 or 6 feet
wide, down which was laid track,
upon which ran a feed car. Rows
three and four were arranged in the
same way. Every COW was haltered
to her manger in front by rope
around the neck. Four men COM
menced to milk-one to each row, and
in a short time the job was done, and
the COWS unlooscd and turned out.
This was done by moving lever at
the end Of the row, when every halter
simultaneously dropped off, and the
COWS marched out into the yard. The
calves were not allowed to suck the
COWS, but were cared for at a different
barn.
A short walk carried me to another
barn, where the horses were kept; but
of these barns there were scveral-one
for stallions-one for marcs-one for
yearling colts, and so on. My first
day was spent in examining the barns,
farm and animals generally.
The next day was the horse sales
day, and upon getting on the grounds,
l found 95 horses in the stables, or
tied along the fences with each num-
ber in large figures posted on his
rump corresponding to the catalogue
which every one was supposed to have.
The sale was conducted in large
wooden structure made just like cir
Gus tent, open over the center, how
ever, with circular pit in the middle,
through which ran a wide road. The
auctioneer mounted his box and the
sale commenced with two-year-old fill
lies, followed by l year old and these
by brood mares and colts. had been
sent out there to buy a two-year-old
stallion, Calypso, which was the next
animal sold, but I did not buy him, as
the executor announced that he had
the bog SPAWN. l will add in this
connection, that [ never saw fairer
sale, as any defect known was pub
licly declared. Calypso went for
about $50, and so on with two or three
others, until they came to another
that had selected, which also had a
defect, and I did not get two-year-
old colt at all. l finally bought a
yearling colt, No. 81, by the celebra-
ted horse, McEwen, which last after
wards sold for $3.50. l thought l
would buy some one-year-old fillics
and selected four. They went for
5000, $3.50, $3.50, and so I did not buy
any 6llies. I then thought | would
buy some brood mares and went
through the list and made my selec-
tion-Mcteora, Lizzie Moore and Mar
cola. Lizzie Moore was II years old,
and would have brought about SIS if
put up to public sale in Spartanburg.
Marcola had a broken tail and |
thought surely I can buy old Lizzie
Moore and the broken tail mare.
Well, here is how they went: Mcte-
ora, 1928 Lizzie Moore, sl150; Mar
cola, 1890, and so | did not buy any
brood mares.
Maj. Frank Anderson, however, let
into bidding on a two-year-old iilly by
Brown Hal, who stands at the head of
pacing stations, and for which $50,
600 was refused, and he got her, too,
to my astonishmcnt. Her name was
ycnora. Her dam Vilettc was after
wards sold for $500. The Major then
got his "dander up" And Amulet,
four years old, was brought into the
ring with beautiful colt by her side,
it was too much for the Major and he
scoopcd her in. Her dam was put up
afterwards and brought 81 900. The
Major took in another mare and colt,
while I contcntcd myself with buying
five ycarling horse colts, some OF
which are magnificent. Mr.. j. +.
Floyd bought two yearling horse colts
Mr.. Tom White bought yearling
stallion.
The second day Shetland ponies and
Creole ponies crossed on Morgan and
Welsh ponies were sold. | bought
one, onc-y -ycar-old Shetland, for q
friend, and Mr.. w. p Irwin, Il Creole
cross. The Shctlands brought for
and , years old about s374 to 800
for mares with colt by their sides
and in foal again Sl25 to Sl35.
The Creole bred ponies brought
about $50 to $50 for mares with colts
and young animals 500! to $50, with
occasional $50 to $50 animal.
When speaking Of mares [ ought tt
have said that Kate Bradcn, PAGER
brought So, 100, the highest price cvcl
naid for Il pacinr brood mare. Aftcl