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Aaggie Cornucopia Pauline 48426, toW. H. Miner of New York for 

 ^10,000. The same year, at an auction sale at Syracuse, New York, 

 John Arfman of New York bought the calf King Segis Pontiac 

 Alcartra 79602 for ^10,000. Two years later Lawson Farm of 

 New York paid Mr. Arfman ^25,000 for a half interest in this 

 bull. In 1914, at auction in Chicago, the bull King Segis Pontiac 

 44444 was sold to a company for $20,000. Since this latter date 

 prices for Holstein-Friesian cattle have risen in a remarkable degree. 



Fig. 163. Sir Pietertje Ormsby Mercedes 44931, one of the greatest Holstein- 

 Friesian sires. Up to 1919 twenty-two of his daughters had made yearly records 

 which averaged over 1000 pounds 80-per-cent estimated butter, and eight had 

 records ranging from 1023 to 1389 pounds. From photograph, by courtesy of the 

 owners, E. C. Schroeder Farms, Moorhead, Minnesota 



At the sale of E. H. Dollar on January 5 and 6, 1915, at Syracuse, 

 New York, 172 head sold for $149,990, an average of $872, on 

 which occasion the bull Rag Apple Korndyke 8th 73416, a grand- 

 son of Pontiac Rag Apple, sold for $25,000 to Oliver Cabana, Jr., 

 of New York. Later, in June, 1 9 1 7, in auction at Worcester, Massa- 

 chusetts, a son of Rag Apple Korndyke 8th, named King Ormsby 

 Jane Rag Apple, consigned by Pine Grove Farms of New York, 

 sold to D. W. Field Farm Company of Massachusetts for $53,200. 

 At this time the dam of this calf — Ormsby Jane Segis Aaggie 

 1 50943 — had " the world's butter records over all ages and breeds 



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