The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
ALABAMA GETTING
IN FAST COMPANY
WITH STOCK SALES
Fine Herefords Are to Be
Offered to Buyers
This Week
SALE OF DUROCS
is NOTABLE EVENT
World at Large Has Its Eyes on
Numerous Advantages Alabama
Offers for Stock
Raising

Alabama is getting into fast company
among the live stock men. Sales of large
proportion are taking place weekly, and
the world at large has its eyes on the
numerous advantages this state offers.
At Marengo Farms, Demopolis, on next
Wednesday, will be held one of the
largest Hereford sales in the history of
Alabama. Sixty choice offerings will APP
pear in the ring at public auction. in
GLIDING u bulls and 3S females with 10
ralves at foot The Marengo Farms
estate is owned by Judge ]. T. Stokely
of Birmingham, who has imported the
best of blood lines into his herd. This
offering of 90 individuals is an unusually
large sales list for a single stock farm,
and shows the speed at which the live
stock game is advancing in this state
and the south. A large crowd is ex-
pected at Demopolis on March 27 20 bid
at the ringsde
HEREFORDS AT MONTGOMERY
On Thursday Of this week at Montgom-
cry. big combination sale of Herefords
will take place under the auspices of
the Alabama Hereford Breeders asso-
citation. This sale is made up of the
best offerings from herds of various
members of the association, which have
been picked by competent judges, and
record crowd will no doubt go to the
Capital City on March 2S. Among the
most prominent contributors to this sale
Is the Alabama Hereford Farms OF Gas
tonville owned by r. J. Goode, secre-
tary of the association. The herd on this
farm is known as the "Dusturber-Stan-
dard Herd of the South" The offerings
picked for the combination sale consist
Of eight bulls and seven heifers.
TIL Alabama Hereford Farms are
among the most successful Hereford
breeding establishments in the south
with the best blood that the Hereford
breed affords, with that careful breed
Ing and raising that produce the best
results and with the deepest interest in
the breeding of Herefords, the Farms
have gained high reputation
This farm and others will make COM
bination sale next Thursday that prom
Uses to advertise the state we'll as to
Herefords.
DUROC SALE AT ORRvILLE
"A public auction sale of Duroc-Jersey
kows was held Thursday. March 81 at
Orryille by the West Dallas Farms,
Dunaway & Lambert proprietors. II
was a great success, a big turnout being
In the private pavilion on the farms
when the Dlooded animals were trotteu
Into the ring.
s.The West Dallas Farms says an au-
thor4ty, ARE among the foremost live
stock breeding establishments in the
south. the proprietors having long beer
among the leaders in the live stock In
dustry in this part OF the country. Their
FARMS which are extensive, are con-
Quoted upon substantial modern lines.
and the Durocs and other live stock that
they breed and raise are widely recog-
nixed as among the best. The public
auction sales held at West Dallas Farms
are attended always by many breeders
and live stock raisers generally. with
representations of several states"
OTHER LIVE STOCK NOTES
Seven hundred hogs were sold at q
public cooperative sale held at Ozark
bringing an aggregate of $4,000 They
were bought by p. NJ Metcalf OF Hart
ford. The hogs were raised by farmers
In the vicinity of Ozark. 1t is related
that shortly after the sale 1.-The jam IN
the banks was like run on the banks
only the jam was caused by the farmers
going to the banks to deposit theii
money and not to draw it out From
September to March /. hogs were sold
1T public cooperative sales in Ozark fol
y total of $146. 1884. Bank deposits In
Ozark have increased by more than 15t
Per cent In six months
Not case of cattle tick infection oc-
eurred in Jefferson county in February
~ shown by the report of DIR. r. T.
jackson, in charge of cattle tick eradi-
cntion work in that state. The report
& shows that the eradication work n be-
- fhose counties . total Of 1877 herds