The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-18
Fifty Short Horns at Auction

On April %, at the farm of A. ID.
Sears, 81 miles northeast of Leon, will
be held e public sale of fifty head of
regist cred Short-horn cattle to which we
again call the attention of our readers.
The principal consignors to this sale
are A. d. Sears & Bros, of Leon, while
George Wadsworth, of Leon, and w. H.
Golfer, of Decatur City, Iowa, also make
consignments from their respective
herds. A representative of this paper
has inspected most of the cattle to be
sold and would advise farmers and
those desiring to buy pedigreed bull or
few COWS and heifers with which to
start herd, or to add to small herds
already established, to, by all means,
attend this sale. 1t is not expected
that these cattle will sell high; in fact
they have not been put in the condition,
as regards flesh, which invariably com
mands the better prices for cattle of the
same breeding. We do not wish it
understood that these cattle are poverty
stricken, but merely wish to convey the
idea that simply because they are not in
that stateecf high flesh called "sale con-
dition THAT this will be good sale for
buyers to attend who wish to buy some
registered Short.horns but who have felt
that they did not wish to pay the pre-
MUM that such cattle sell for where
they are offered in high flesh. The
sellers could have rounded their cattle
out by long continued grain feeding, but
they are raising and selling them for
breeding purposes, and while they do
not expect get so much money for cattle
in this condition, yet they claim that
buyers will get cattle that can be count
| e. nd
and this gives satisfaction to their GUS
ever, that where cattle are offered, with.
out being put in high flesh, that the adj
vantage is on the side of the buyer
true that if the buyer desires more flesh
he can increase the feed and make it
much cheaper than he can buy it after
the other fellow has put it on. Our
object in setting forth the above facts is
not to deceive anyone but instead to
make it plain that this will likely be a
sale that buyers can attend and secure
cattle at their true value, not having to
pay for anything but just what they get
with nothing added for extra feed, rep
utation, etc. AS to the breeding of the
cattle we wish to say that such we'll
known and time-honored tribes are rep
resented as Young Mary, Rosemary,
Matilda, Amelia, Pansy, Pomona, Flora,
etc. In the top crosses of the pedigrees
| appear the names of such bulls as Wild
Wild Eyes l1O645, Glen Victoria 1865,
Pioneer 1880, Red Scotchman l3l75S,
| Antiquary of Oakland 7246S, Gilt Edge
I'd 10336S, kirklevington Duke 18th
1896, Burlington ll460l, Airdle Barring
ton 1858, Lord Mayor 12941l, Airdrle
Duke 54776, Headlight l22S52, etc., rep.
resenting the herds of such well-known
breeders as the late Colonel H. Nj. Vale
B. o. Cowan, Nichols & Gibson, George
Allen, |. Barr q Son, VIM. Cummings
Son, j. H. Potts & Son, w. &. Crum
etc. The names of these breeders and
the prominence of the ancestry of the
above named bulls is sufficient evidence
of the good strains of blood to be found
in the top crosses of the cattle to be
! sold. Theiget of Wild Wild Eyes and
Red Scot form a Gonspicuous par
of the sheA Wild Wild Eyes, it wilt be
/ remembered, is the sire of G. G. Bigler &
Sons Airdrie Duke of Hazlehurst thai
now heads their Enterprise herd and
was good enough to sell for 5000 during
the years of depression. Wild Wild
Eyes was got by that noted breeding
bull, Waterloo Duke sth, out of Wild
Eyes seth, she by the $4,000 bull, 3ls1
Duke of Airdrie. Red Sco,chman is as
strongly bred in Scotch blood as Wilc
Wild Eyes is in Bates, and his sons anc
daughters in this sale will be one of the
attractions and will convince anyone
that he has made good "nick" will
the females in the Sears herd. He wal
got by Golden Aberdeen 1194O3, out O
Pansy Bud, she by 18th Scottish Lore
1926, out of Pansy Blossom, she b!
Imp. Earl Marshal, out of Imp. Pansy
9th. Pioneer above referred to, was b.
Imp Scottish Lord, the sire of the stat
fair and Worlds fair winners shown b,
B. o. Cowan. We might speak a
length concerning the other bulls bu
will advise our readers to write for
sale catalogue which is now ready TO
mailing, addressing Mr.. A. D. Sears
Leon, Iowa. 1t gives extended pedigree
and full particulars.