Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-10-05
BIG SALE AT
CASTLE GROVE

began yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock.
The attendance at the beginning was
fairly good but tho articles III most
instances were knocked down at low
| figures.
The sale was a great object lesson
in more ways than one. showing not
only the excellent equipment of Castle
| Grove farms but also with what facil-
ity articles carrying with them fine
values can be disposed OF at public
sale if all the arrangements are COM
plete.
The sale was conducted on the sec
ond or the middle one of the three
farms belonging to the John X. Ben
nett estate. The cattle are being sold
under a large tent nearly a hundred
feet in diameter capable of seating
| five hundred people. At the western
end is the auctioneer's stand, while
arranged about him in semi i-circular
form are hundreds of seats composed
| Of camp chairs ekcd out with impro-
! vised board benches. The tent, open
yesterday, can bo closed at the sides if
| necessary so that the sale can proceed
regardless Of the weather. 1t is GER
| tainly a novelty, not to say luxury,
for our farmers to sit reclining on a
comfortable chair in shady pavilion
while sizing up the value of live stock
and placing their bid thereon.
Strangers from New York and other
points began to assemble in Danville
Tuesday night. A good many others
arrived in the carly trains yesterday
morning. These together with resi-
dents of town were driven to Castle
Grove farm by hacks, which piled
back W ards and forwards regularly dur
ing the day. Daring the forenoon the
large tent on the farm was comfort
ably filled, the greater number present
being farmers and cattle fanciers. who
had driven in to the sale for many
miles around, and whose vehicles lined
the fence on two sides of the large
field adjoining the one in which the
sale was conducted. Seated in the tent
much interested in the proceedings
was a fair sprinkling of ladies
The sale is in the hands of Peter O.
Kellogg Company, of New York. The
auctioneer is p. j. Casey and he is the
most expert of his class. Articles did
not remain long under the hammer
yesterday, but taking the cattle as an
example they were scarcely more than
led into the tent for inspection before
they were sold and run out again.
The low prices at which the cattle
were knocked down constituted a real
surprise. Finely bred Jersey cattle
with long pedigrees went for mere
baGatelle. The first COW sold was
princes Reba, lS7064" which is not
yet five years of age and which has
the largest pedigree i'll the herd. She
was knocked down at $40. But few
cows brought higher price. "Lactine
of Montour l26241" brought $50. and
! Catherine Pompon l62255" went for
$50. A number of the cows with good
pedigrees were sold at $i5, large
number of.others apparently as good,
at $35. "Curisanna 174449" COW
about two years of age, was purchas-
ed by DR.. S. eY. Thompson for S35.
Almost any one of the cattle sold at
the latter figure would have been con-
sidered cheap at $75 and would no
doubt have brought 500 under other
circumstances. Some of the Jersey
COWS were sold at $25, others, also fine
stock, went as low as $50. while still
others reached low water mark at $40.
Bulls of the purest breed went cor
respondingly low. "DiCtilder 61l6S"
whose pedigree covers nearly a page
of the catalogue went for $50.
Yesterday afternoon the selling of
the horses was taken up. Some of the
moro valuable ones brought fair
price although no fancy figures were
realized. "Buster' aud king"
brought the highest price, two hu"dled
dollars each. Both horses are under
five years of age and broken double
and single. John II. b. g., 1898"
broken double or single brought S95.
''Bluebelle, " gr. m, 1902. also Il valu-
able horse. brought only $50. Nor
gan" b. g., 1885. broken double and
single. was knocked down for $50. The
most Of the horses sold were bought
by persons In Danville.
Tho big fourin-hand road coach,
which cost $4,000 in London aud is in
frst-claSs condition was not sold. The
body brake, which cost $500, was
knocked down to Frank Llewellyn of
Shamokin, for i've hundred dollars