The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-21
METCALF LARGE
BUYER OF CATTLE
Pays S525 for HOlstein
Cow Aged Four At
Auction
SEVERAL OTHERS
BRING GOOD SUMS
Two-Days' Sale on Vernon Street
Closes Today Vermont Holstein
Club Holds Interesting Meeting in
Brooks House Last Night.

Brooks House Last Night.
In the auction sale of purehred Hol- |
stein cattle this forenoon at the sales !
pavilion Of the Purebred Live Stock |
Sales Co. on Vernon street II head were
disposed of for about $4,000. The
weather conditions were not favorable
and the crowd was not as large as at
the afternoon sale yesterday, conse-
quently not SO good an average price
was maintained. The two-day sale
will close this afternoon About 20
head remained at noon to be sold.
The highest prices brought this fore
noon were 1870 and $500 for cows
bred and consigned by Fred O. Ham
blctt OF Keene. \. H., both fresh. The
former was a six -year-old and was
hcught by c. +. Fairbanks of Lexing
ton, Mass. and the latter was nine
and n half years old and went to J
H. d. Whitcomb of Lexington. Mass
Sales yesterday aggregated $s,s45 for
~ head, and the highest price was paid
by L. II. Metcalf of Holyoke Mass This
was 1928 for the four wear old COW. X X
7. ". Helen of the King Segis Pontiac
line, due TO calve this month She was
consigned by the Gardiner Hall, Jr.. Co
, of South Wilmington, Conn.
Mr.. Metcalf paid $3.50 for seyen-year-
old COW bred by ". +. Pierce of Bellows
Falls and consigned by the Cary farm of
Lexington, Mass; $3.50 for a cow five and
a hall years old consigned by the Summit
Lumber Co. of Davidson, Me-; and $3.50
and S240 for cows five and a half years
old bred by Mn Pierce and consigned bv
the Cary farm.
/ Another of the high priced ones Tues
/ day came from the Cary farm and was
/ bred by l.. c. Lowell of Bellows Falls
She is a five yearold and Leddy Broth
ers of Epping, y H., parted with S345 for
her, Only - less. $40. was paid by ID. r.
| HefTernan of Arlington Heights, Mass,
for three year-old female from the
Summit Lumber Co.
A Cary farm three -year-old went to
| Lester W. Jenney of Mattapoisett, Mass,
for 5000. She was bred by Mr.. Lowell.
A Summit Lumber Co. COW aged four
years also was sold by Mr. Jenney for
$40
W. F. Soule, jr., of Buxton, Me-, paid
S240 for cow of six years from the
Cary farm herd and slightly smaller
amounts for COWS four and FIVE years of
age from the Summit Lumber Co. con
sigument. A fom -vear-old. not bred. the
property of f. 4. &E. c. Fisher of South
Royalton, Vt, went to Charles T. Fair
banks OF Lexington, Mass. for 1925.
The postponed meeting of the Yer
mont Holstein- Friesian club took place
las. evening at the Brooks House
George +. Gregory of Dummerston pre-
J siding After Secretary i. f. Parme-
lee had read the minutes of the last
meeting, the president invited sugges-
: items relative to the holding of summer
picnics, the arrangements for which
are left in the hands of the vice pres
idents of each county. Nomination OF
delegates to the annual meeting of the
: Holstein- Friesian Association of Amer.
n lea. TO he held in St. Paul, Mimi, june
: resulted III the following names be
K ing submitted and unanimously chosen
q DR. John M. Allen. st. Johnsbury; JohT
n NJ. Kelley, Williston; o. B. Howe, Bur
e lington; George F. Gregory. Dummer
e ston: E. H. Chapman, Brattleboro, anC
} w. G. Sercombe. Brattlehoro.
q Secretary Parmelee read a letter re
v ceived from one of the county agri
IS cultural agents in Iowa, asking if Yer
T. mont breeders could supply two car
loads of good producing purebred Hol
stein COWS, and 4 carload or two O
high grade COWS.
a Frederick L. Houghton, secretary o
the Holstein- Friesian Association o.
America, moved that the Vermont see
p retary be instructed TO send ont "a cop,
"a of this letter to all members of the Yer
st mont club, and that all future request
c, of this nature be treated in the sam
to manner The motion was carried. MI
le Houghton drew attention to the neces
to- Sitv for Vermont breeders to show NOR
is interest in the club 5 welfare and cite
n number of instances of recent occur
renee where state clubs and associa
VS. tions in the central West and othe
to parts had carried out successful men
It's bership campaigns and state salei
thereby increasing their financial II
Id sources and providing the necessar
a funds for developing the Holstein il
ur of each individual member.
at Frederick M. Peasley. owner of til
les noted Nutmeg herd OF Holsteins Chesl
he ire. Conn, and secretary of the Con
,st nectcut Holstein club, in short b,
rs. interesting talk extended an invitatio
is to the Vermont club to hold a jor
he summer meeting with the Connectiel
,or club next August, at the home of Sci
nd ator Hough, Washington, Conn.
C., General G. w. Wood of Woreeste
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