The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-10-27
REVIEW OF LIVESTOCK
SALE AT COUNTY FAIR

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1t Is with pleasure that | accede to |
your request to give my views with |
reference TO the livestock sale con
Quoted on the fair grounds on the al
tern0On Of 18th inst
desire to say in the FIRST place
that | was pleased to see the sale
called on such an occasion There il
no better medium OF bringing buyer
and seller together The buyer can
have the chance of wide seleC ton
without having TO go from place to
place to inspect stock, thus spending
much time and involving consider
able outlay The seller may thus find
a buy er with but little cost In adver-
tising. There should be no good rea-
sons why "a sale Of live stock should
not be an annual event at such fairs.
But such sales viii not prove a sue
cess without certain line of proceed
ure. The STOCK offered must not be
inferior The place to sell inferior
pure breds Is at home, and to the
butcher The stock breeder who
brings inferior animals 10 a public
sale lowers his reputation as breed
er In the public estimate. Having
brought only good stock he must also
sell 1t as rule without having any
of IL bought In In other words he
must act fairly With the public. THIS
does not mean that he should sacri-
ice his stock, as Is shown below.
The buyer must also he willing to
pay what the animal Ia worth. Three
Is iOthing surer than that men will
soon kill sale when they stand
around watching for chance to pick
up animals below their real value,
At the sale held In Salmon on the
date named, the bidding was pain
fully slow, Much OF tho pure bred
stock was bought too cheaply The
first six or eight bulls did not aver
age much more than a hundred dol
lars, They were excellent animals
There was not Gull In the lot and
they had reached that age when they
we're coming into highest usefulness
Such animals cannot be bred for a
hundred dollars. This will be appar-
ent to any one who considers the
value OF the parent stock, the many
inferior animals in a herd that can
not be retained as breeders and the
extra feeding that such animals
should have The owner OF these
balls would have been justified In
refusing 10 offer those animals after
two or three Of the number tad been
sold at values SO low No man should
| be expected to sacrifice good cattle,
/ because men will not give value for
them. hut the transactions should
all be open and above board. Several
Of the females were also sold too 10 a
/ Au0ther such sale would certainly
result IN breeders who have stock to
sell boycottlng such sales
To the writer Ii was surprise that
the n-reglstered stock sold as we'll
as the registered or about as we'll.
do not think Ii sold too high, but
low in comparison was certainly true.
The non -pedigreed stock was good,
but IL was not as valuable for breed.
Ing uses as the other. Should some
men say 1t Is az good, don't believe
them. IT will not breed as true t.
type, and the progeny cannot he 70.
corded rs pure, no "soeyer good 1t may
be.
The caution should also be dropped
that II Is not wise On bring yer,
large number Of animals to those
sales until they ara tried out and
found successful, Should 1t be found
In the future that the sales held al
the fair grounds we're not success
they could probably he held at some
ntner time. But such an event,
II would In sense call for u cattle
breeders association to arrange them.
10 may he well to call al tentIon t.
the fact, that at the sale but tive
milking shorthorn bulls we're offered
On one Of them reserve bid OF S3OC
was placed. The other sold for $3.50
The writer Is satisfied that this
class Of bulls Wilt sell more readily
than any other Ia this country, and
for several years TO come Those wht
desire Ia rear Shorthorn bulls thai
will bring good values should care.
fully note this fact.