The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-22
So, 700 PAID FOR COW AND sll,l00 FOR BULL
Bid at Big Cattle Sale Is Record Price For Mich Cow
Cooper's Cattle Farm in Pennsylvania

COOPERSBURG, Pat. S. Coop
er held his annual sale of Jersey cat
tie here today. 1t was a typical
Cooper sale, and one at which about
5000 Pennsylvania farmers and
their wives gathered and watched
several hundred breeders who came
from Long Island, Rhode Island, Mas
sachusetts, Indiana, Illinois, New
York, Kentucky and even Louisiana
to buy the fawn-colored beauties the
plain folk simply looked at and
sighed for
Golden Sultana, whose sire was
the illustrious Golden Ferns Lad,
was knocked down in the auction
ring for $1,000, the highest price
ever paid for a cow at public sale.
M. S. Beltzhoover of Irvington
was the one who picked up Golden
Sultana.
Thirty-seven hundred dollars, how
ever, was not the big money. That
was paid for one of Golden Sulta-
mas sons, Sultanas Oxford Lad, who
went for 81, 100.
This price falls a little bit short
of the public sale record for a Jer-
sey bull at the Cooper farms, $12,
900 being the top notch. Sultanas
! Oxford Lad might have brought a
record figure had it not been that
a woman was doing the tall bidding
There were some around the ring
side who insisted that it would not
! be gallant to push the price of Sui
Cd IN
the face of the fair opposition There
were others, however and they were
among the wisest, who remarked
that Mrs. S. T. Henning was bidding
as though she wanted the big beauty
for her herd of prize winning Jer-
seys she keeps down on her farm
near Shelbyville, KY, and that if she
wanted him she would get him or
make the breeder who did pay a
staggering price.
Millionaires at Ringside.
The bidding in the case of Sui
tana's Oxford Lad gives a very fair
illustration of the character of the
buyers who attend a Cooper sale at
Linden farm. There are literally
millions represented around the ring
side. There are men worth millions
there who always do their own bid
ding. There are other millionaires
who are represented by their agents.
Several $1,000 cows were bought
for Alfred G. Vanderbilt's farm at
Newport. Howard Willets of White
Plains, n. Y, was at the sale today
to do his own bidding, and picked
up $1,000 cow or two, but he got
them at his price.
This sale takes place every year
at Coopersburg, in Lehigh county,
eleven miles from Bethlehem and
eight miles from Allentown The
Cooper farm was, in it's beginning.
no different from those that stretch
away on every side from it. Thirty
years ago r. S. Cooper was simply
a cattle buyer. Today he is better
known on the Isle of Jersey than he
is in Lehigh county. The JERSEYS he
has bought and sold total millions.
The Jerseys he has owned have been
prize winners at every show at which
the foremost breeders entered their
stock. Yet to get to the Cooper
farm, where cows are freely sold al
$1,000 each, it is necessary to ride
through country where the aver
age price of a COW is not one-tenth
OF that sum. A tiny calf that could
be carried away with 3 shawl strar
sells for more on the Cooper farm
than the prize milk giver that grazes
on the Lehigh hills not more than
| mile away.