The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-06-06
REGISTERED JERSEYS
. COMING INTO THEIR
OWN AGAIN IN MAURY

WIN ssSsvhu us sSsssSs
S COMBINATION SALE AT SoUTI
: SIDE PARK RE-ESETABLlsH.
Es FAVOR OF STRAIN.
, BUYERS FROM MANY SECTION
Highest Price Paid by Clint Moor.
the Figures Being $365-And tn
, Average Of s165 Was Maintined b
the Cows and Heifers.
For the first time in many year
: real sale of registered cattle wa
held in Columbia Wednesday a
South Side Park when the herd O
Maj. A. N. Akin and Major Akin ant
c. P. Hatcher and few Jerseys be
longing to Joe Chapman, Chaffil
Bros, and DR.. Robert Pillow were
placed under the hammer. There
were thirty-sS sold from the cata
logue at total cost of $3.50 ant
thirty-four Of that number were COWS
and heifers which sold for $3.50 OF
an average Of $165.00. OF the thirty
four cows and heifers sold twenty
one brought sl.1S0 or an average OF
$199 and fraction over. The high.
est price paid for anyone COW was
$4,000 by G.. Moore for McCoy's
Cinderella 21sS40, by Captain Nc
Coy 71414 and out of Duchess of
Fairview, one of the greatest COWS
of this section and the foundation
of the famous Akin herd. The high
est price paid for heifers was $3.50,
two selling for this sum, both of
which are strong in the Tennessee
line Of breeding.
One particular feature of this sale
was the fact that, the greater mai
DIRTY of the stock sold is of that old
Tennessee foundation stock showing
such bulls j., the breeding as Doc
Brown, Ida's Stoke Pogis, Farcy's
Harry, Captain Mccoy, Bisscn's
Landseer, OoDaa's Harry Pogis, and
other noted s;res, and such great
dams as Fancy Wax, Princess Nc.
Coy, Duchess Of Fairview, Tormcnt's
Duchess, Bees Wax, Landseer's
Fancy, Bissor's Belle, and many
other good ones. The Duchess of
Fairview, the foundation of the Akin
herd, dropped her eleventh calf
when she was ten years four months
and one day cid and of the eleven
nine were feEales. Major Akin has
system of breeding whereby r,ore
than ninety per cent of the calves
dropped on his farm are heifers.
1t is useless to comment Ipon
what strain Of Jerseys brought the
top prices, as perusal of the sales
will show that the Captain Mccoy
COWS brought the top prices in the
matured stuff and the Eminent blood
was paramount in the younger ami
mails. These two bulls are still liv.
ing and are al the sarm of p. Whit
aker & Son. and Maury countians
still have tho privilege Of breeding
TO this excellent stock of JERSEYS
Doc Brown, one of the greatest Ten
nessee bred bulls that ever lived is
dead, but his blood lines will live for
years after Kim He has left
leniage that VII be represented with
the foremost when /; comes to the
pail test. p. Whitaker & Son we're
the heaviest purchasers, knocking
Off seven of the lot. Mr.. Whitaker
is fine judge of COW and he is
long on the CAPTAIN Mccoy and
Eminent blood.
The sale tegan at one thirty
o'clock and lated for about three
hours, and the bidding was spirited
and lively, Major R. R. Bailey. of
Illinois, the auctioneer, furnished
much merriment to the interested
spectators and bidders, of which
there was a goodly number, many
buyers were here from distance.
quite humble" of buyers being re.
presented by telegraph messages.
Major Bailey stated that he had
sold many bunch of Jerseys at rub
ic auction, nut that he believed the
lerd sold today was the best indivi-
1uals and by far the best herd that
t had been his pleasure to Offer for
many year
Following is list of the sales and
heir buyers and prices paid:
Princess Mccoy 217531 by Captain
Mccoy, dam Princess Ethel May. to
?. Whitaker & Son, Columbia,
$4,000.
McCoy's Gem 24170O by Doc
Brown, dam Kate Mccoy, Frank
Wheeler. Mt Pleasant so55