The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-06
Boston Man Pays Top
Figure at Tw0-Days'
Sale Here
BULL VALUED AT
100000 SHOWN
Property Of Cole & Brooks, Who Own
Farm in Pawlet-Total Receipts for
Two Days Nearly s3o,ooo-severai
High Priced Animals.

Hgh Priced Animals.
When the 18th two-day sale at the
pavilion of the Purebred Live Stock
Sales company closed last night it was
found that 9,34O had changed hands
for l33 head of Holstein- Friesian cattle.
The highest price of the sale was paid
by Z. A. Baker of Boston, who bid
1925 for Woodcrest Polly Walker, :;
three-year-old COW from the herd of
j. II. d. Whitcomb Of Littleton. Mass,
while the largest single purchaser was
the LaSalette corporation of Bloon,-
field. Conn, who paid 1866 for 1G
head
Wooderest Polly Walker was sired I.v
King Walker, who has sc A. II. o.
daughters, and her dam was Paula of
Chagrin Falls with two 4. r. o. daugh-
| tcrs. During the sale Mr. Baker bought
! five head, paying 52,345.
| On of the special features of the sale
was the exhibition of the great hull.
King of the Rag Apples, which John
Arfmann said was the most valuable
/ bull in the world. He is the property
of Cole & Brooks, who recently bought
"a farm in Pawlet (Vt.) and who
! brought the bull from there purely for
exhibition purposes. Mr. Cole paid
$4,000 for him and sold a half interest
for $4,000, and later the owners were
| offered $4,000 for quarter interest.
which would make his value al least
100000. That such an animal should
be brought TO Brattlehoro i, one more
1 indication of the solid backing of tho
Il Y g.
the Rag Apples was born April Is, 1917,
and the records of his fonr nearest
dams average 34.S2 pounds of butter IN
seven days. He carries more blood from
world s champions than any other bull
lever carried, and for II generations he
has world 5 record cow or heifer in
each generation as his direct ancestor.
He came from the famous Cabana farm
in New York state.
Among the other animals which
brought high prices was a four-year.old
COW from George T. Smith s herd in
Barre. Mass, for which T. ". MeNif
of Littleton, Mass, paid 500; a yeari-
ling heifer, Fairmont Alcartra DeKol
Segis. consigned by John ArfInann of
Middletown, y. Y, and sold for $500
to \. ". Steere of Greenviile, r. l..
who bought six animals for $l,9O5; q
three -year-old cow from j. ". Prentiss
Il Sons herd in Alstead. y. IT,. sold to
Walter NJ. Lowney of Mansfield. Mass.
The candy maker. for $6l5. Mr.. Lowney
also paid $40 for a two.ycar.oid heif-
er from the same herd. His total pur-
Iehases included six head, for which he
ipaid S2,270.
|. An eight months-old bun from Mr..
Arfmann's herd was sold to Whiteomb
q Fisher of Norwood, Mass, for S525.
A. E. Eaton of Hillsbore. y. II,
bought three cows from Cole & Brooks 5
consignment from Granville, \. y.
Ipaying $3.50 for a three -year-old, 1910
for a three year-old and $500 for a
four year-old. From the same herd L.
A. Miller of Westminster bought
four-yeaf-ol and paid $3.50. None of
these animals carried the A. r. O.
record, but they were to be returned 10
Mr.. Cole 3 herd to be tested for the
A. K. o. record and then are TO be
shipped to the purchaser. Ia addition
all the COWS are to be e-bFed to the
famous 39-pound bull, King of the Rog
Apples.
Mr. Miller also paid s365 for five
year-oid COW from a consignment by
Edward vi. Herrick of Bellows Falls
His total purchases came to Sl,Si5,
(which was paid for five head.
(. Included in the Vermont buyers were
Jesus Ala Of Montpelier, who bought
II head for S2,245; J. f. Benjamin of
Barre, who paid $685. for four head !:
: L. 3. House of Montpelier, who bid
$l,llo for FIVE animals: L. NJ. Baker
who paid an average of 1925 for two
. head.
The only local eattleman on the list
Of buyers was T. L. Meade, who bought
two two.year-olds, Lady Clothilde Beryl
Segis and Champion Pauline Segis. both
of which came from n consignment by
Harry S. Barker of Littlcton, Mass.
: The two heifers cost Mr. Meade $50
Mount Hermon Colantha Lassie, q
five-year-old cow consigned by the
Mount Hermon Boys school, Mount
Hermon, Mass, was sold to the North
field seminary, Northfield, Mass. This
T was the only purchase for the semi
nary.
d. f. Parmelee of Durham, Conn,
: father of F. L. Parmelee of Putney,
Z bought nine head. for which he paid
c $l,6l5. Five animals were sold for
1890 to Clinton F., Rines Of Westbrook
: Me-. and the four head bought for Mrs
A. Hoffman, Beaufort, S c.. cost her
1875.
; c. W. Ellis, jr., of Cortland. \. Y.
one of the consignors. paid $4S5 for
| three head Robert i. Ronaldson OF