The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06
AVERAGE GOOD At
HOLSTE|N SALE
Highest Price Up to Noon
Today $500 for Cow
of Eight Years
F. HI. METCALF OF
HOLYOKE BUYER
Bull Calf for Which 81, 200 or More Was
Expected Brings Nominal Sum Be
cause Of Announcement Yesterday Of
Fake Records.

Fake Records.
Nine head of registered Holstein-Frie-
sian cattle were disposed of this fore
noon at the second day of the sale at the
pavilion of the Purebred Live Stock Sales
Co. and these brought total of 81 1886,
which was considered by men connected
with the sale as a good average Inasmuch
as four OF the ANIMALS sold were calves
from three to five months old. The av-
erage for the 80 head sold yesterday was
about $3.50, total of S9,225 exchanging
hands for the first day sales. The highest
price paid for a single animal up to this
noon was 500 bid for Jewel Beauty
Clothilde yesterday by F. H. Metcalf of
Holyoke for an eight -year-old COW con-
signed by j Ernest Singleton of Wallum
Lake, K. |. She is 30-pound daughter
OF 26-pound COW and granddaughter of
the almost century sire, Pietertje Hen
gerveld's Count De Kol.
The next animal in line of Importance
was four-months-old bull, not yet reg.
| istered, which brought $3.50 from A. F.
Barker of West Bridgewater, Mass This
young male was c<signed to the sale as
the property of the Acme farm at Middle
bury, Conn, and Lakeside farm at Wa
tertown, Conn. The records of his dam
and his sires dam average 3l24 pounds
butter i'll seven days and l20.97 pounds
in 80 days.
| A yearling female consigned by r Ii
Metcalf sold to another consignor, j. En-
nest Singleton, for S5o5 Among the IL
II 4.
ranging from $500 to $500 were three
which went to j. " Kelley of Willis
ton, who bought six head for 81 sos. They
\ were three-yearold COW and a two-year-
old COW. each consigned by Mr.. Single.
ton, $500 and 1925 being paid for them
respectively; also a siX-year-old cow con.
signed by Frank R. Hancock of Jackson.
vile, for which he paid $50.
w. L. Clark of Stockbridge, Mass. paid
S430 for a fve-year-old COW consigned by
W. H. Mack of Ascusneyville He also
bought two other animals, and his checl,
! to cover the three amounted to $635. A
hve-year-old COW consigned by c. w. p.
! Read of New Boston, n H., was sold to
William Orrell of Glendale, +. L.. for S4l5
Mr.. Orrell bought another animal for
which he paid s2l5.
Walter III. Parker of Douglass. Mass,
paid 1910 for a yearling heifer consigned
by Mr.. Metealf, who also received 1865
for a nine-year-old COW bid off by Fred
,, f. Brooks of Ashby, Mass Three head
were sold to Loren r. Carter of Water
bury, Conn, for s935, one of them be
ing heifer nearly two years old con
i, signed by Mr. Metcalf, for which he paid
|, 300, and another being six-year-old COW
from the Singleton herd. for which
he bid $3.50. A three -year-old COW
from Mr. Mack's herd sold to L. ]. Har
). ley, jr., of Springfield, Mass, for 1886.
d The announcement yesterday by Man
e ager George F. Gregory of the confession
n of Charles f. Cole of Pawlet that mos
il of the records made by him in the pas
y four years were faxed had an effect in on,
instance, bull calf consigned by F. H
Metcalf of Holyoke, Mass, for which 81,
200 or more was expected, selling for les
than $500
Mr.. Coles method, Mr.. Gregory said
s. was to wear aroand his waist rubbe
q receptacle containing cream, a tube rur
ming down his trousers leg allowing tn
cream to run into the milk pail while h
he was milking, resulting in abnormal tests
His principal tests have been made 70
N Oliver Cabana of Elma, n Y, near Blu
falo, but it is not claimed that Mr. ca
l. bana knew anything about the fake tests
s. Mr. Cabana's Holsteins have been anon
the most noted in the United States, an
,e he recently sold his entire herd for abou
r $3.50, 900, an average of about $4,000 eacl
The annual meeting of the Vernon
=. Holstein-Friesian club, of which Mr.. Gre
= ory is president, was held in the Brook
yyb dn
to postpone the election of officers to tt
y, first Tuesday in November, the place
ld meeting to be decided by the officers. tt
ne members listened to talk by ]. NJ Ke
ley, who has farm in Williston and WI
ys is general counsel for the Barnum, Rim
ge ling and Forepaw cireuses. He spoke G
as the needs of the Vermont dairy farmer