Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-02-09
METCALF GIVES
$4,000 FOR COW
Record Price for Live Stock Sales
Company's Auctions
Receipts for 1913 Head Are $4,000 -
Average Is Unusually High, Being
Nearly 1913.

All previous sales of cattle by the
Purebred Live Stock Sales Co. were
eclipsed by the two-days' sale which
ended about Wednesday evening in
the pavilion on Vernon street. The total
receipts for 1913 head of Holsteins were
$780, an average of $317.SS each.
This is high average and exceeds that
of most of the live stock sales through
out the country.
The high mark for an individual ami
NAL since the sales were started by this
company was reached Wednesday after
noon, when +. II. Metcalf of Holyoke,
Mass, a regular patron of the sales,
whose regular business is the manufac-
ture of the Farr alpaca but who has a
Holstein herd of unusual excellence,
paid $4,000 for a junior year-old
cow. She is Edith Fayne DeKol, five
years and IL months old. Her dam is
half sister to Segis Fayne Johanna, the
world S record cow which recently set
mark of 50.6S pounds of butter in
seven days.
Mr.. Metcalf also was the successful
bidder at 81 $50 for the bull Pictie
Pontiac Alcartra, IS months old, son of
the $4,000 bull, King Segis Pontiac
Alcartra.
/ Another high priced cow in the after
noon sale was X. p. Ondine, four years
old, for which 1000 was paid by
August j. Doerr of Saginaw, Mich.
She is daughter of King of the Pom
tiacs, the greatest bull Of the breed.
All three of the above named ami
mails were consigned by John Arfmann
of Middletown, N. Y, who Wednesday
forenoon bought for 81 900 the eight
year-old COW, Maplemont Winnie, con.
signed by j. w. Prentiss & Son of AL.
stead, N. H.
One of the most interesting features
of the sale was the purchase by w. w
Sherman of Hartford, Conn, of COW
and her five daughters, all the calves
she ever dropped, for $500. These
six animals were sold together and
there were several bidders. Mr.. Sher.
man also bought two of the COW s
granddaughters.
John Mckay of West Brattleboro
bought cow and two heifers for $775
E. +. Covey of Brattlcboro paid 1926
for four-year- old cow. Lee Haven OF
South Londonderry consigned two cows
to the sale which brought $40 and
$430.
Some of the heavier purchasers be-
sides Mr.. Metcalf and Mr.. Sherman
were as follows: H. S. Kelsey of Bos
ton, proprietor of the Waldorf lunch
$2,S75; John Arfmann of Middletown
N. Y, $l,965; H. f. Gray of Westfield
Mass, $l,6O5; John F. Benjamin OF
Barre (Vt.), $l,170; H. NJ. Adams OF
Amherst, Mass, 81 ,135; c. w. Walker
of Canton, Me, $1,135; Mortified
(Mass) seminary, $1,045; Benjamin
Lang Of South Lee, n. H., 81 OBS; ' sew
eral others who paid from $500 tc
81 900 each.
The consignors and buyers were en-
tertained Tuesday night by the sales
company with smokctalk at tn,
Brooks House. A colored orch astri
from Springfield, Mass, furnished boil
vocal and instrumental music and
| buffet lunch was served.
The auctioneers were the same as be
fore, Otis II. Forbush of Concord June
ton, Mass, D. A. Perry of Barre vt
and James A. Hall of Charlestown, y
II.
During the noon hour luncheon wa
served in the pavilion dining room by tn,
women of the Eastern Star.