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the show bull Beau Perfection 24th, and an offer of 

 $1,000 declined for his yearling sister. A little later 

 a sensational deal with Col. Taylor was reported. 



At their public sale on Oct. 20, 1914, Harris & 

 Sons realized an average of approximately $496 on 

 55 head. The 29 females disposed of on that occasion 

 averaged $493, and the 26 bulls averaged $498. The 

 highest price was $1,800, paid for the bull calf Re- 

 peater 38th, Fred Fleming, Dallas, Tex., being 

 the purchaser. At $1,525 E. H. Taylor/ Jr., Frank- 

 fort, Ky., secured the six-year-old cow Harris' Prin- 

 cess 81st by Beau Donald 5th. Gay Lad 25th, a 

 yearling bull, made $1,500, William Henn, Denver, 

 Colo., being the buyer. Repeater 19th, two years old, 

 and Disturber's Lassie 5th, three years old, each sold 

 for $1,250, the former going to S. B. Burnett, Fort 

 Worth, Tex., and the latter to E. H. Taylor, Jr. Mr. 

 Taylor also bought the seven-year-old cow Adeline 

 by Prime Lad at $1,050, and the four-year-old cow 

 Disturber's Lassie 4th at $1,000. Sixteen of the 55 

 head sold for $500 or more each.* 



*Disturber was bought by Mr. Letham when a calf, and he 

 won his way through the senior bull ring at Chicago at a we'ght 

 of 1,245 pounds a few days before he was thirteen months old. 

 As a yearling he was used heavily and showed in only half-fitted 

 condition, winning third money. As a two-year-old his get were 

 showing so well that again he was not fitted specially, retaining 

 third place at Chicago. Both of these years he was the property 

 of Mr. Brock. It was when Disturber was two years old that 

 Letham showed him with his first calf. This was Distributor, the 

 sire of Repeater, which defeated the St. Louis World's Fair cham- 

 pion Mapleton and the eastern champion Perfection Fairfax. 

 Then came Distinction, own brother to Distributor. Disturber's 

 heifers found favor perhaps more generally than his bulls during 

 the first five years of his life, but after that there was probably 

 about an even division of sentiment as to their relative excel- 

 lence. During the year 1910 his get won more blue ribbons than 

 any bull of any breed in the Chicago show, and that too on an 

 exhibit of but thirteen head from the Brock herd. 



When George P. Henry sold out his herd he had Kansas Lad 

 Jr., Prime Lad and Disturber. The latter Letham took with him 



