298 CATTLE 



Prince Ito brought $9100, the cow Blackcap Judy 40226, by 

 Black Monarch of Emerson 30331, was purchased by C. H. Gard- 

 ner of Illinois for $6300, for years the top price for a cow of the 

 breed. At the sale of P. J. Donahue of Iowa in May, 1918, 

 the cow Blackcap McHenry 12 8th 183815 sold for $5025, and 

 the bull Emlyn 235644 brought $5100. Again, on May 23, 

 1919, Mr. Donahue sold 47 head for $121,425, an average of 

 $2583. On this occasion Blackcap Lassie i6th brought $7200 

 and Eiba of Glynn Mawr 4th, $6800. On June 3 and 4, 1919, 

 Escher and Ryan sold 171 head for an average price of $2200. 

 The highest price for a bull was $36,000 for Enlate 209747, sold 

 to W. H. Cooper. The cow Blackcap McHenry I5ist 229186 

 sold to C. A. Rosenfeld for $10,000. In the summer of 1919 

 C. D. and E. F. Caldwell, Burlington Junction, Missouri, sold the 

 bull Blackcap Bertram 183987 to L. B. McCanum, Aledo, Illinois, 

 for $45,000, this representing the highest price paid to date for 

 an animal of this breed. In May, 1918, at a sale of Tudor and 

 Son of Iowa, 54 head brought an average price of $1207 and 

 28 females ranged in price from $1000 up. At the annual sales in 

 Scotland, February 4 and 5, 1919, all records for the breed were 

 broken, and 280 bulls averaged $560 each, 3 passing the $10,000 

 mark. The bull calf Euripus of Ballindalloch and the yearling 

 Emblem of Harviestoun each brought $14,700, and the calf 

 Erodemas $i 1,025. At sales held in fifteen states and Canada, in 

 1918, the average price for 4102 head was $385.58. The average 

 of 82 sales ranged from $i 10.08 to $1519.23. 



The prices paid for Aberdeen-Angus steers represent the very 

 top of the market so far as carload lots are concerned. The prices 

 paid for single steers excepting the champions at the 1916, 

 1917,. and 1918 International Expositions are led over all 

 breeds, grades, and crosses by the sale of the grand champion 

 Advance at the 1900 International, which brought $1.50 per pound 

 live weight. He weighed 1430 pounds, bringing $2145. At the 

 1916 International the grand-champion carload of Aberdeen- 

 Angus shown by E. P. Hall of Illinois brought $28 per hundred at 

 auction, while in 1918 the grand-champion load of the same breed 

 by the same exhibitor brought $42.50 per hundred. The average 

 price paid per hundred on 378 carloads of fat Aberdeen- Angus 



