Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-30

last Wednesday was a. complete sue
cess. The receipts amounted to $SA70,
which wre $500 over the amount esti-
mated before the. sale and was ac-
counted for probably by the, large
crowd which was present making the
bidding lively from the start. Live
stock brought good prices and a
hundred bushels of oats brought ga and
65 cents respectively in lots Of fifty
bushels. A fine day with good roads
brought many buyers from distance
The sale was conducted by Line Bros,
and was made in three hours
Lou ,Hunsberger & Son, south Of
Elgin, recently shipped carload of
cattle to Chicago for which they re-
ceived the neat sum Of $1,s7s.s2. There
were twenty-seven head In all;
twenty-five were yearling steers and
heifers which netted them $T2.02 each.
and the other two were cows thatshad
been MIXED all winter and sold for
killers at sS9.22 per head. The year
lings had been fed mostly on ensilage
with little corn added the last month
of feeding, also having plenty of hay
and good oats straw at all times for
roughage. The cows were fed on en-
slage and hay alone. Hunsberger &
SON think there is nothing that adds
more value to farm than silo.
Not many years ago we could buy
live hogs for 3 and cents pound,
the present market price is about IA
cents, but fancy price seems to be
considerable higher-$1.50 per pound
and that is what NJ. E. Merfeld & Sons,
of Greene, paid for a hog last week.
NJ. F.. Merfeld spent about two weeks
in Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio and Ken
lucky, and in company with r. l..
Conner Of the Duroc Bulletin. attended
several big sales, looking for boar to
head their herd Of Duroc Jerseys.
From Mckee Bros. at Versailles, Ken,
Mr.. Merf6ld purchased the great young
boar Defender Major, and paid for
him $500 in cash.
w. J. Galbraith, of AIgona, and Will
Christensen, of Lone Rock, took in"
a sale circuit Of registered Aberdeen
Angus cattle. At the Wilkinson sale,
held at Mitchellvile. seventy head Of
the blacks sold at an average of $50
each. At the Cash sale, at Williams
burg, so head sold at an average OF
1872. The top COW; at this sale was
bid off at $3.50. At the Wursbacher &
Miller sale. held at Morley, fortyfive
females averaged s672 and the entire
Offering of sixty eight head sold for
$6l4 per head on the average. The
cha T. d. r.
the top bull an even $1,000. Messrs
Galbraith and Christensen have fine
herds of the blacks, and were much in
terested in what they saw on this trip.
A deal was made at Garden Grove
whereby Albert and Harvey Northup
traded farms. Albert getting Harvey's
High Point township farm of about
$50 acres at 500 per acre. Harvey gets
the farm known as the Lillard farm
northwest of town, of about $50 acres
at $3.50 per acre, this being the farm
Albert recently got for his big general
store here. Carl Hanson who has been
on the Harvey Northup farm the past
few years on the halves, bought farm
Of Harvey Northrup just over the line
in Missouri, between Linevlle and
Pleasanton, of 200, at $40 per acre,
and will move on the farm at once
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert I Northrup will
novel, to the High Point farm at once
and run it this season. We are told
that Mr. and Mrs. yarney expect to
rent the A. e. Torthrup residence
property in town.
The White sale north of Sexton
Thursday footed up to more than
$1,000 IT was an ideal day for
sale. so far as weather was concerned
but the roads were very bad. A large
crowd was present, however, and go3h
prices were secured. Twenty one steers
sold at s12s.,5 each, or for a totai OF
s2.s9325 Cows sold up to SIS. ard
horses up to 1901. Corn sold at s1.o3k$
and oats at 81 cents per bushel.
Bert Carr, of the Swea City neigh
borhood, recently held one of the big
gest farm sales pulled off this winter
in this section of the country. Inc