Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-08
LOSING OUT SALES
and HOW THEY RUN
Story of Two Big Auctions Held
During Past Week.
Prices Picking Up and Indications
Promising SOme of the Bids
GObbler Market Active.

The prices brought at the closing
out sales looked up decidedly last week
which is a matter of cOngratulatiOn to
every one. Henry Eastman's sale
held last Tuesday brought out good
| ly number of bidders, there being
about $50 in attendance and things
went very well. Thirteen ewes
brought $3.50 and a buck $3.50, O..
r. Bryhan being the purchaser The
shoats brought from $1.65 to $40
apiece there being about 43 all told.
Fifty chickens sold for $3.50. The
COWS brought from SIT, $33, to four
at SOL. The two bulls sold for $48 for
the black and $43 for the red fellow.
Seven black steers brought SCI apiece
or a total of $427. Seven more
brought $50 each and four sold for
$160. Seven calves sold for $110.25.
The horses varied from Sal, which
was the figure seven-year-old brown
mare sold for, to gray horse for $191,
sorrell mare SOL, gray colt $3.50
and so on down to lower prices for
the lower grades. The hay sold at
prices from $40 to $1O.75 depending
on the quality and whether it was in
the barn or stack. Fall wheat brought
| 81 cents a bushel.
Some of the prices for machinery
we're: double harness $27; saddle SIP;
hog rack $3.50; gang plows 90, SIS,
| $3.50, $10.25; binder used over two
years $1O0; spreader $50; side delivery
rake, $40; drill $40; surrey SIS; bob
sled $40; wagon $55.
L. H. Stevens was clerk and John
Vesperman the auctioneer. The sale
came to nearly $500
The Lewis Bendorf sale held We'd
lesday was one of the best so far this
season. Mr.. Bendorf picked a nice
winter day, and despite the rough
'oads a crowd of about $50 was pres
ent when things started. The little
stuff went fast at about the usual
prices. In the machinery of which
| here was considerable, the following
bids took the various items:
Cart $4.25; cutter SIS; wagon $50;
spreader SIS; disc $40; loader $51;
5obs $3.50; drill $3.50; rake $40;
corn binder SCI; binder SAP; sulky
pillow SIP; mower 81; gang pillow $31;
mill and engine $161; double harness
es, $26, SIT, $3.50. Light wagon $27.5O.
Seeder $3.50. Corn plows, 81 and Sc.
In the poultry department fifty
chickens were knocked down at $3.50,
turkey gobbler brought $775 and
his humble mate, the tidy sum of
1915. Two hundred bushels of oats
sold for 40 cents a bushel and 100
! bushels for So cents certainly a very
satisfactory price. The 500 bushels
Of wheat and oats mixed sold for SO
cents a bushel. The high price on
horses was $40 for a black mare. A
gray mare went for $136.50 and the
other horses for less money. The cat
| tie varied in price, bull selling for
As, FOUR steers at $44 apiece, and two
heifers at 1925, eleven yearling
steers brought $3.50, eight calves
$3.50 apiece or SIP, three cows $44
each, and five $4,000. The balance of
the cattle varied from Sal to SOS each.
Seven pigs sold for Sc each, ten for
$3.50, six Sc apiece and so on. Fifteen
brood sows brought $25 apiece and 20
young sows So apiece.
The sale totalled about $4,000. L.
A. Clark did the clerking, and John
Vesperman cried the sale.
| The Jerry Eamsley sale held near
Cassville on Monday of last week was
we'll attended despite the GOODNESS of
the day and the roughnesso f the roads
The stock soldw ell, and corn and oats
went at a very good figure. According
to a man who was there the bidding
was good.