The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-04-21
+ He FARM NEWS
SPECIAL PAGE DENOTED 70 THE FARMING
INTERESTS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY

breed paper $3.50: Nebraska Farmer
and IHieldman $143: catalogues and cut'
| $126; sale pavilion $75; hired help $50
local advertising $3.50; sale bills ant
posting $25; hog crates $50; entertain
ment $65. His 35 head of hogs solo
for $16,610.00. and he thought the ex
penses of selling at $50 per head very
Mr.. Brown said he would not have re
ceived 5000 on the average. Some
times an owner will have a very fine
animal in his herd which he knows is
good, but does not realize how good
until breeders come and enter into
competition on the animal. AS an
illustration he recited that a breeder
came to his farm the day prior to the
sale, and looked his herd over. When
he came to a. sow that took his fancy
he said, MIR. Brown l will buy this
was catalogued and would go in the
sale ring the next day. The gentle,
manSsaid II will give you $1,000 for the
SOW and let her go through the ring
Brown refused, and the next day after
other breeders had arrived and looked
the herd over and noticed this partic-
ular animal. and began bidding on her,
she was sold for $1,725. Mr.. Brown
said that il he had not already advertis-
gu sttlS SOW lOT tIle sitie Ile4WOulu Hive
taken the $1,000 Offer. Further on in
his remarks Mr.. Brown cited another
instance. He was showing big
Nellie 2nd,' at the National Swine
Show and was offered $4,000 for her.
He refused, saying he was going to
have a sale and had her listed So
urgent was the purchaser that before
leaving Des Moines he offered Brown
81 300. Again Brown refused, and in
the sale ring she sold for $4,000. Push
ing his argument in favor of public
COW for sale, and 'pricea her M SIPS at
priyate8 sale,A Mearepeatedly refused
ll0,s and ploces the seoyY IA gihe public
sale being held by 4 liis ma ishbor the
next and Atfie party Offering s110
lid ~ 1 To- sleas nv Then re asyould only
give &1l0Snt private sale. ss
sa p iscisssl Ion Oh tile question was taken
up by d number of breeders present.
and discussed pro and cen. Henry
Hammann, of Nishnabotny township.
said that he had held one sale. and
had gained & lot of experience thereby.
He thought it perfectly useless to adj
yertise in papers circulating 5000
miles from home. Might as well ad.
vertise a cattle sale in the Ladies
Home Journal. and would probably
get just as many answers. He fa-
vored advertising in the locality where
he expected to sell his stock, and in
that way gain the cooperation of his
local men and neighbors. ]. Fl.
Healy of Manila, said that he had
tried both ways of selling, had spent
as high, as two hundred dollars with
farm papers, and had received results
both ways. John Hoist, Of Denison,
favored advertising in his breed paper,
than SriIrinu 1111la,l YaIrh1jrif, 4,
his local papers. Z By local
papers he referred ssto3 the county pa
pefs. land tho papers in the surround
ing counties. Mr.. Petersen, Of Dun
lap, favored the public sale proposition;
the seller disposed of allgof Ills. prop
erty at one time; received all of his
money at one time: saved any amount
of time that would naturally be lost
upon waiting on parties at private
treaty. He favored local advertising
together with perhaps one breed pa
per, hut sal siesrwould srefuse here.
after to pay an auctioneer $500 for a
couple of hours work. Fred Knopp,
of Charter Oak, favored the public
sale, and used one or two breed pa
.pers, and literally advertised in the
local papers.
James Fleming, Of Boyer, addressed
the members. and asked the question
as to whether it. paid to- pay such
high prices for breeding stock and 1T
so where would prices sfinaiiysR end?
Charley Speck, of5& Goodrich township.
said the high prices were justified il
the purchaser used Judgment after
making the purchase. He said he had
paid some pretty good prices for indi-
viduals. and considered he would make
money if he used his head. He also
favored local advertising, and urged a
pure bred sire for every farm in Craw-
ford county
The main part of the program was
the business meeting of the associa-
ton which was held Immediately after
the discussion of the various questions
had ended. The secretary read the
minutes of the last meeting and made
his early report. This report showed
the association to be in good condi-
ton. The members voted to have an
other directory printed during the
year. Considerable surprise was man
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