The Mankato free press., 1921-03-25
TWO HOLSTEIN
.IRES ARE SOLD
NARROW & Randall Dispose OF
Couple of Very Fine
Animals
[From Saturdays Daily1


low & Randall, report the sale of two
Holstein sires during the past week.
The one was sold to Charles e. Walk
er, secretary of the Mcleod County
Holstein Breeders association at Bis
cay. MINI. rlr. Walker has one OF the
finest herds of registered Holsteins in
the state. The calf was from Olathe
Tirania De Kol, cow that NARROW &
Randall paid $505 for two years ago
at the fair grounds when forty head OF
tributed by the Blue Earth County
Holstein association, to the farmers
in the county at cost.
Last, year this cow made a record
of S94 pounds butter and 21,S30 pounds
milk. This year on test she has made
in five months $50 pounds OF butter
and 1850 pounds Of milk. 1t is more
than possible that this cow will break
a worlds record for milk and butter
ed age. She freshened at eleven years,
seven months and is now twelve years
old. She has milked several days
more than one hundred pounds milk
per day, and now in her sixth month
is milking about eighty five pounds
per day.
This calf was fve and one half
months old and the price paid was
S1,500. The above explanation will
with the breeding of registered cat.
tie. the reason why this calf should
sell for $500, and another calf a year
old sold to Mr.. Valentine WetZel of
LIE Sueur Center by the Mankato Hol-
stein farms for s165. This latter calf
was out of a very fine registered Hol-
stein COW that had not been highly
developed, and the official record of
her milk and butter production kept
course not like the cow mentioned
| Why Explanation Is Made.
The above explanation is made to
show the average reader just why the
difference in price. One not we'll
posted could not know where the diff
terence came in. This cannot be de-
termined by simply looking at the
calves and their dams. 1t is the Bah
cock test and the milk scales that tell
the story as we'll as the high record
ancestry built around the animals. The
$1,000 would be too much for the ordi
nary farmer with the common herd of
cows to pay for a sire, but the SIG
calf was good buy for Mr.. WetZel
and would be for any farmer with an
ordinary herd in the county. In fact
$3.50 or $500 and $500 would be rea
sonable price for farmer to pay with
fifteen or twenty cows which he wish
es to grade UP and improve the quail
ity of their offspring, when compared
with the amount Of money in the
farm, horses, machinery and farm
equipment to operate same.
Animals have been sold from the
Mankato Holstein farms that have
brought as much as $4,000. and as
low as 500. The remark has been
made so many times by those not
posted that they could not see the
difference in the price. Many do not
animals sell for $1,000. $4,000 and
$4,000 others may be bought for as
low as 500 to $500 and $500.
The Farm Bureau Is now putting on
a better sires campaign. which VIII be
of great benefit to the county, and
many people are expressing their de-
sire to improve their dairy herds in
this county and an excellent oppor-
tunity will be offered for many OF
stein breeders sale on the fair grounds
next Tuesday, March %. 1t is not ex-
pected that these cattle will brine
highe prices than the farmers OF
Blue --arth county can afford to pay
The following breeders have con
signed to this sale. A. NJ. Brush &
Son, Amboy; Brush Bros, Amboy: ]
A. Christensen, Westbrook; Kenneth
Crane, Garden City; l. L. Fredrickson
Golden; B. Hovden, st. James, J. l.
Clark, Lake Crystal; Jense johnson
Lake Crystal; A. F. Kietzer, Vernon
Center; ~KietZer Bros, Vernon Center
Emil Lutz, Mankato, Mankato Hol.
stein farms, Mankato; H. e. Sails.
berry. Amboy; William Schmitt &
Son. st. Peter; A. D. Stanford, Man
kato; A. D. Mccormack, Garden CITY:
H. l.. Sohre & Son, Good Thunder
Earl Oliver, Amboy. 1t is hoped by
them that their neighbors will pur.
chase the majority. of these.