Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-11
! EIGHTH ANNUAL SALE OF coUN-
TY BREEDERS, ASSOCIATION
ATTRACTS MANY BUYERS.
FEMALES BRING AVERAGE
OF $s5; MALES s112.5o
Longmont, Colo, Breeder Pays $500
For 2-Year- Old Male, Contributed by
E. w. Harmon, Which Was Highest
Price Of saIe-eoth in Total and
Average Sale Was Below Last Years.

Forty-one animals, twenty-six fe-
males and fifteen males, were sold for
total Of $4,137.5O at the eighth annual
sale Of the Marshall County Short
horn Breeders Association held We'd
nesday afternoon at Harmon's feed
yard. The sale attracted about two
hundred farmers and stock buyers,
many Of them from distance. and
was fairly satisfactory to the contribu-
tors, altho not comparing we'll with
last years sale.
The twenty-six cows sold for a total
of $2,450, an average Of nearly s95 a
head, and the bulls brought $1,6S7.5O,
an average of s112.5O. The averages
are much below the averages Of last
years sale, which were 1854 for the
cows, and s123 for the bulls. This fall
ing off is undoubtedly due to fear OF
contagion Of the foot and mouth dis
ease. the guarantees and restrictions
resulting from the disease in Iowa, and
the conditions Of the money market.
Pays $500 For 2-Year-O Old.
F. p. Mcpherson, of Longmont, Colo,
paid the highest price Of the sale, $500
for Eastlawn's Velvet, o-year- old
bull, which was contributed by E. w.
Harmon Mcpherson sent his bid by
mail. Edward Eckhart, Of State Cen
ter, paid the next highest price for
Oakhill Marshal yearling male, that
he bought for $40. The calf was con-
signed by Lewis Bros. From that fig
ure the prices dropped to $140, paid
by G.. "A. Mold, of this city, for Bonny
Boy, a bull calf consigned by A. G.
Nyce.
High Cow Sells For $3.50.
The COW selling for the highest was
Queen Dorothy, who brought $3.50. She
was purchased by Krizer Bros, of
Eddyville, and was consigned by Lewis
Bros. George Kline. of Pilot Mound,
also bought COW for $3.50. She was
Duchess Goods, a 6year-old, and was
consigned by Fred B. Meier. c. A.
Bonnewell, of Grinnell, paid s145 for
Sovereign Countess 3-year-old, con-
signed by Lewis Bros. The average Of
the lot, both bulls and COWS, was a.
little less than SOL head
Other high prices paid for bulls were
S125, $40, and 800. Nine of the six
teen bulls sold for 800 or over. Some
cot t1astop prices for the cows besides
those already mentioned were $135,
1925. $12750. and Sis. Eleven of the
twenty six cows. or less than half, sold
for over 500. The cheapest hull was a
white one. not listed. which August
Lang, of this city, bought Cor $40. Otto
RadloR, of this city, bought 4-year-
old COW. consigned by E. w. Harmon,
for $47.5O, the lowest price paid for
the females.
Buyers and consigners.
Buyers from outside the county who
made purchases in addition to those
mentiG ed already were: A. c..
Thompson, Ames; 1. H. Buckley, and
Hildebrand Bros, Gladbrook; George
Bango, Mount Vernon; +. H. Ehlers,
Tama; Krizer Bros, Eddyville; G. j.
Brown, Beaman; Al Hauser Fairbank;
A. e. Peterman, Luzerne: and j. +.
Lowery, Garwin.
The contributors were Jesse Binford
& Sons, and A. G. Nyce, Liscomb; E.
w. Harmon, city and Rhodes; Lewis
Bros, city; Fred 3. Meier, Haverhill;
E. A. Fricke, State Center, and c. Fl.
F'ricke, Rhodes.