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Sale Hits $395 



Average On 86 Head 



KING BESSIE'S S2200 DAUGHTER 

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

 at 2 yrs. milk 17.730 lbs.) Bob and Mrs. Rasmussen, I. D. 

 Allen. 



1 GROL'I^ ot Hancoik ( ounty 



^ J-i- l-arm Bure.iu m c m b e r s 



^1„^^ / known as the Adrian Hol- 

 stein Company fi^'ured dramatically in 

 the National Holstein Sale. June 3, held 

 on Hlmwood Farm near Dcertield in Lake 

 lounty, Illinois. The sale itself of H6 

 head averaged S395.00, which includes 

 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 Kint;). with 

 a record of 1,7^2 pounds of butter and 

 38.606 pounds of milk in a year. This 

 bull was consigned by the Hancock 

 County breeders, and sold for SI. 200 to 

 Carnation Farms. Seattle. W'ashin^on. 

 Six head .sold for Si. 000 or more, 



ilie top price of S2.200 was paid by 

 f'arm Bureau member J. D. Allen 

 (Brinks Express Company), Libertyville. 

 Lake county, for a three-year-old dauj;h- 

 ter of King Bessie, consigned by Bob 

 Rasmussen, Lake County Farm Bureau 

 member, at Deerfield on whose Flmwood 

 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." 



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cow, Ilhni Creator Ladoga Queen, with 

 a record of 813.5 pounds of butter in a 

 year, as a four-year-old brought S3"'0. 

 The top price on bulls was Si, 900 paid 

 by Pabst Farms, Oconomowoc, Wiscon- 

 sin, for a young bull consigned by Mount 

 Virtoria 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 SI, 200 five 

 years ago for Sl(H)0. F.ach of the six men 

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

 old daughters of the bull Sir Inka are 

 milking 50 to 60 pounds of milk a day 

 with their first calves, and the three-year- 

 olds are producing 60 to ""0 pounds a 

 day. according to Earl ^X'hitcomb. One 

 of the bull's daughters sold in tlie sale 

 for SS'S. 



PUREBREDS COMING BACK 

 This cow. a linebred descendant of the famous bull 

 Johanna Rag Apple Pabst. brought SIOOO. 



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MAN O' WAR RARE GOLD 

 Sold lor S1200 . . his mother gave 23.091 lbs. milk 

 956.9 lbs. fat in a year. 





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