350 



CATTLE 



Champion Flying Fox 61441, $7500 in 1902 ; Eminent 69631, 

 $10,000 in 1905; Stockwell 75264, $11,500 in 1907; Viola's 

 Golden Jolly 79314, $11,000 in 1909; Sultana's Oxford Lad 

 76506, $11,100 in 1910; Noble of Oaklands 95700, $15,000 

 in 1911, and his dam, Lady Viola 238439, brought $7000. On 

 May 2, 1918, Mr. Edmond Butler of Mt. Kisco, New York, held a 

 sale, where 60 Jerseys brought a total of $60,105, an average of 

 $1001.91. On this occasion the cow Briar Flower, P. 18952 

 H. C. sold for $10,000 to William Ross Proctor of New York, 



who in 1 9 1 6 purchased 

 the imported bull 

 Golden Fern's Noble 

 145762 for $25,000. 

 Four very notable Jer- 

 sey sales were held in 

 1919. On June 16 

 Edward Cary, Carlton, 

 Oregon, sold 34 head 

 for $36,145, an aver- 

 age of $1063.09. In 

 June T. S. Cooper sold 

 91 head for $82,050, 

 an average of $901.70. 



FIG. 148. Lady Aldan, P. 8470 H. C., one of the 

 most noted cows on Jersey. Winner of the highest 

 honors and dam of Golden Fern's Noble, the $25,000 

 bull. Owned by J. A. Perree, Oaklands, Jersey. Pho- 

 tographed at eighteen years of age by the author 



Edmond Butler, on 

 August 4, sold 47 head 

 for $158,250, an av- 

 erage of $3367.02. 



All records were broken in this sale, for the bull Sybil's Gamboge 

 (P. 5260 H. C.) sold to L. V. Walkley for $65,000. At this sale 

 1 5 daughters of this bull sold for $44,600 (an average of $2973.33), 

 one of which, Bagot's Gamboge Crocus 383430, brought $10,100. 

 On August 5, C. F. Sturhahns, Hartford, Connecticut, sold 32 

 head for $56,125, an average of $1753.91. On June I, 1918, at 

 the Hood Farm sale, Lowell, Massachusetts, the aged cow Sophie's 

 Agnes 296759, with the breed record for butter-fat production, 

 sold for $10,099 to Ayredale Stock Farm, Maine. Thus far 

 in the twentieth century the Jersey has steadily grown in popu- 

 larity, and each year the total number of animals sold at auction 



