Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-06-21
HOLSTEIN SALE.
Twenty-Five Dairy Cattle to be
Sold Next Thursday.

There will be big Holstein stock
sale next Thursday, June 27. in con-
nection with meeting of the Stevens
County Farm Club. One dozen pure
bred Holstein bulls, three pure bred
heifers and ten high grade heifers
and.cows will be sold by L. L. Hanse.
as auctioneer.
Supt. E. c. Higbie picked out these
cattle while at Mortified last week.
and the cattle arrived here the first
of this week, and are now at the agri-
cultural school, where they may be
inspected by any who deisre to see
them.
These cattle are brought here as a
part Of the betterment work of the
Stevens County Farm Club. The
cattle were carefully selected, pur-
chased as reasonable as possible. and
will be sold to Stevens county dairy
farmers without any middleman's
profit.
W. F. Shilling, who assisted Mr..
Higbie in selecting the cattle, will
also be present at the sale and give
a talk on Holsteins, and will be of
great assistance, for he probably
knows the family history of every
animal to be sold. He is one of the
best posted Holstein men in the
Northwest and his address will be
we'll worth hearing by every dairy
farmer whether or not he expects to
buy Holstein at this time.
In the lot of Holstein Friesian cat
| tie selected by Prof. Higbie in his
recent trip to the Mortified comm1n-
ity are many young sires that are
closely related to the greatest butter
and n iIk producing families of the
breed. Three of the bulls are SIRED
by son of a COW that made in official
test over % pounds of butter in sew
en- days. Their granddam made over
80 pounds in a week. in official test.
Others are sired by High avn Ondinus,
Mr.. Schilling's herd sire that is a son
of Colantha Johanna Lad and is out of
COW with an official butter record
of over % pounds in a week. The
i bulaE8 represent five different sires
from the best families of the breed
and not a one is sired by sire that
is not out of an officially tested COW.
This should give the buyers of these
animals an opportunity to get some
thing that will be bound to increase
the productiveness of their herds. One
of the things that Supt. Higbie had
| in mind in the purchasing of these
young sires was in securing them
from several of the we'll known fam
lilies so that the purchasers could in
few years exchange sires and thus
save great deal of expense and
make a more uniform lot of cat
tle.. Included in the lot are fine
pair of two year old pure bred heifers.
One is soon to freshen and the other
will freshen in the fall. These are
sired by sire that has a dam that
has made $3.50 pounds of butter in a
week in official test and the sire s
dam has record of over % pounds.
These heifers are bred to son of the
great Colantha Johanna Lad, who has
over fifty daughters with good official
butter records. and who was sold at
three years of age for $4,000.
In the lot OF cows and heifers there
are some very we'll bred ones and good
producers. They are all under six
years of age and are very good in.
dividuals. Some are soon to be fresh
and the others are coming IN this fall.
It's hard to describe the breeding OF
each animal but Mr.. Schilling will
be present on the day of the sale anC
will give description of each animal
to contemplating purchasers.
The funds for the purchase were
furnished by the Citizens Bank o:
Morris without interest.
This is most important movemen
and it is hoped to make it the begin
3 ming of a concerted move to get gooC
5 class of cows for West Central Min
1 nesota. Every one who can shoul
2 attend this meeting.
e Methodist Church.