The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-01-22
TWO BIG SALESO Of
PURE BRED STOCK
kENNARD AND MAHER SALES
ATTRACT BUYERS FROM
ALL OVER STATE
ONE YEARuNG SOW IS SGlDFOR $1,000
kennard's Shorthorns Also Sold Well
and the Top Price Cow
Brings $4,000.


Brings $4,000.
Two big sales of pure bred stock on
farms near Brookings Monday and
Tuesday attracted bidders from all
parts of South Dakota, and some from
other states. The prices paid were
very satisfactory to the men whose
stock passed through the ring and also
to all other breeders who are inter
ested in seeing practical evidence of
the increasing appreciation Of the
value OF improved stock upon the
farms of this state. The result Of
these sales is certainly encouraging
to the farmers who are active in pro-
noting the improvement of all stock
upon the farms of the state, and espe-
cially to the Brookings county men
who are determined to make this coun-
ty center Of fine stock production,
both for breeding purposes and for the
food markets.
The first of these two sales was that
OF Jas. Maher & Sons on their farm,
five miles south of Brookings, on Mon
day. They offered fine lot of pure
bred Poland China sows and gifts, bred
along the best lines Of the breeding,
including some especially good indi-
viduals. They sold Al head for a total
OF $19,525, and the average received
for those advertised in their catalog
was $487.50 per head. The top price
was reached when a splendid yearling
gilt by "Miller's A Wonder" went to
Tom Maher for $1,000, with J. F. Smith
of Flandreau a contending bidder to
the last. Mr.. Smith consoled himself,
however, for his failure to get this gilt
by paying $1,750 for a good one the
next day at the Kennard sale. An
other of Maher's good ones, fall gilt,
was purchased by H. G. Williams of
Brookings for an even $1,000, and A.
NJ. WILDER of Aurora was another buy
er in this sale who paid $1,000 for a
SOW. Bert WILDER paid $3.50 for sow,
and other bidders who took some of
the offerings away from Brookings
were T. Conver If Arlington, who
bought a SOW at $525; M. M. Mande-
vile of Aurora, sow at $675; G. F.
Robinson of Plankington, a SOW at
$425 p. H. Mart of Wakanda, a SOW
at 1910; Elmer Hill of Lenox, a SOW at
$3.50; Ross Troop of Arlington, sow
at $610; James Larson Of Wentworth,
a sow at 1920. Percy Kennard picked
out one good SOW at $3.50 and several
other Brookings bidders went above
$500 to get what they wanted.
On Tuesday p .. Kennard sold 36
head of Poland Chiras and 20 head
of Shorthorn cattle at his farm about
a mile southeast of town Prospective
bidders who came to Brookings before
the sale to look over his stock pro-
nounced his sows and gifts as fine an
offering as they had inspected any
where and his herd boar Accelerator,
"a wonderful hog" At this sale J. w.
Scott of Yankton paid $1,750 for sow
and John F. Smith Of Flandreau paid
the same price for gilt. Peter Selvig
4 Son Of Elmore, Mimi, took a SOW
at $500; Mike Maaher had to bid $500
to get the one he had determined to
have; Elmer Messner Of Aurora paid
$3.50 for a gilt and A. F. Messner, also
Of Aurora, paid $3.50 for sow; L. J..
Hagemo of Volga paid $435. U. R..
Mills of Bushnell $3.50, Elmer Hill of
Aurora $500, M. M. Vaudeville of Au-
rora $400, T. Converse Of Arlington
$500, /. J. Hagemo of Volga $3.50, John
Benz of Canton $500, and Peter War
tenhorst of Sioux Falls $400, for gifts.
A number of Brookings buyers went
above 5000. and the average for the
sale was about $490.
In closing out his herd of Shorthorns
Mr.. Kennard sold 20 head, including
cows, heifers, young bulls and his herd
bull, Rex Goods The latter sold for
$500, going to Theo. Hill, who also
paid the top price of the cattle sale,
500 for a COW and young calf, and
1850 for another cow and calf. Chris
Christianson paid $3.50 for young
roam bull, and two young red bulls sold
for 5000 each. Elmer Hill paid s495
for one COW and calf, s415 for another,
$3.50 for a third, and $3.50 for bull
calf. NJ. F. Sutton paid $3.50 and John
Benz the same price for cow and calf.
U. r. Mills paid 1920 for heifers and
several OF the young animals went
from 5000 to $3.50 each. Fortunately
for Brookings county most OF these
well bred cattle will remain in the
county.
The Kennard sale amounted to about
$23 900, making the total for both sales
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