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iiisi'din' OF siKiiri'i KiKxs i\ kaxsas 



wheal. It was iiiiixissiMc to ,u('t out the ci'o\v<l. 

 Mr. Joliiistoii sold a iiunihci- a iid stopjx'd th(; saJ<'. 

 'I'lic Sold 1 1 cast association sold tlicii' ciitii'c offcr- 

 iii,^' to a \'cry small crowd at low prices. (_)ii ()r- 

 tobei- 7, A. Ij. Ilai'ris sold t lui-ty-fiv(; head at Ins 

 farm iicai' ( )sa^'c <!ity at. an avei'ase of about 

 ^250 and the same day Fj-ank J I. Yea^-cr sold in 

 ('liase county at ])i-ices sliowin*;- a decdinc of 25 

 IH'V cent. The next (hi.y tlie Moi'ris County 

 J>ree(lei-s Association sale at (Jouncil ({rove sold 

 a lot, nearl_y all in thin co]idition, that went bff^'- 

 ^■in,L!,' foi' bids nuich abo\'e market value. On the 

 9th, Phillips i>]'os. dispersed their herd at (Jonn- 

 <-il rii'ove at prices steady wdth 1920 sjtrinti,- sales. 

 ( *has. Casement sold at Sedan on October 

 12, secui-in,<;- pi-ices of a year earlier. The 

 sales at Ottawa a,ii<l Pleasanton were fail' and 

 the one at Foi't Scott was a failui'e. The Allen 

 cor.nty association sold fifty head at Humboldt 

 at sti-ont;- ]»i-i<-es that showed but little de(dine. A 

 bi^- sale held at Leavenworth on Octobei- 28, was 

 d)-a^'f>y and 40 per cent lower and the association 

 sale at Hiawatha was reported as much as 50 per 

 cent off from the liiuh iioint. The American 

 Ivoyal sale was probably 40 ]»er cent below that 

 of 1919. North central Kansas sales ludd up 

 better, altliout^ii there was a lowering' tendency 

 all ovei- the state. 



Shawnee county breeders made an excellent 

 olTeriii^' I)ecembei' 15, and secured t^dod prices. 



