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values on all live stock was felt. In two sales held in Iowa early 

 in February, 230 head averaged $630. At the third annual sale 

 of the American Polled Hereford Breeders' Association at Des 

 Moines, in 1918, sixteen bulls averaged $1419, and twenty-six 

 cows $1114.50, the general average being $1230. The top bull 



FIG. T 1 6. A pasture view in Herefordshire. From photograph by the author 



was Polled Repeater 2d 10646, a grandson of Repeater 289598 

 on sire's and dam's side bringing $4000. Eight head passed the 

 $2000 mark. At the fourth sale of the association, in February, 

 1919, fifty head averaged $1163. On March 28, 1919, W . A. 

 Wilkey & Company, Sullivan, Indiana, bought at auction of the 

 Renner Stock Farm of Indiana the seven-year-old bull Bullion 4th 

 (3062) 428446 for $9500, the highest price to this date for a 

 Polled Hereford. 



