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Sale Hits $395 



Average On 86 Head 



mSG BESSIE'S $2200 DAUGHTER 

 Left to right: Bessie Ormsby Fobes Maid (Butter 779 lbs. 

 at 2 yrs. milk 17,730 lbs.) Bob and Mrs. Rasmussea, J. D. 

 Allen. 



jf GROUP of Hancock County 



M ^ Farm Bureau members 



^_^^ / known as the Adrian Hol- 

 stein Company figured dramatically in 

 the National Holstein Sale, June 3, held 

 on Elmwood Farm near Deerfield in Lake 

 county, Illinois. The sale itself of 86 

 head averaged $395.00, which fncludes 

 a number of heifer and bull calves. But 

 one of the "tops" of the sale was the 

 seven-year-old sire. Carnation Sir Inka 

 Bessie, out of the world's record cow 

 (Carnation Ormsby Butter King), with 

 a record of 1,752 pounds of butter and 

 38,606 pounds of milk in a year. This 

 bull was consigned by the Hancock 

 County breeders, and sold for $1,200 to 

 Carnation Farms, Seattle, Washington. 

 Six head sold for $1,000 or more. 



The top price of $2,200 was paid by 

 Farm Bureau member J. D. Allen 

 (Brinks Express Company), Libertyville, 

 Lake county, for a three-year-old daugh- 

 ter of King Bessie, consigned by Bob 

 Rasmussen, Lake County Farm Bureau 

 member, at Deerfield on whose Elmwood 

 Farms the sales were held. Rasmussen 

 is vice-president of National Tea Com- 

 pany of which his late father, George 

 Rasmussen, was head. 



The University of Illinois' five-year-old 



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 Sold ior 

 $395.00." 





cow, mini Creator Ladoga Queen, with 

 a record of 813.5 pounds of butter in a 

 year, as a four-year-old brought $370. 

 The top price on bulls was $1,900 paid 

 by Pabst Farms, Oconomowoc, Wiscon- 

 sin, for a young bull consigned by Mount 

 Victoria Farms, Quebec, Canada. De- 

 mand for young cows was exceptionally 

 strong, commented Fieldman E. M. Clark 

 of the National Holstein- Friesian Asso- 

 ciation. 



The Hancock County breeders (see 

 page 9) all have small herds of eight to 



fifteen cows each. With the help of the 

 Farm Bureau they recently reorganized 

 their cow testing association. They pur- 

 chased a bull that brought $1,200 five 

 years ago for $1000. Each of the six men 

 stood his share of the cost. The two-year- 

 old daughters of the bull Sir Inka arc 

 milking 50 to 60 pounds of milk a day 

 with their first calves, and the three-year- 

 olds are producing 60 to 70 pounds a 

 day, according to Earl Whitcomb. One 

 of the bulls daughters sold in the sale 

 for $375. 



PUREBHEDS COMING BACK 

 This cow, a linebred descendant of the famous bull 

 Johanna Rag Apple Pabst, brought $1000. 



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MAN O' WAR RARE GOLD 

 Sold ior S1200 . . his mother gore 23,091 lbs. milk. 

 956.9 lbs. fat in a year. 



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