Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1917 — VanNatta Cattle at Battle Ground Brought Top Prices. [ARTICLE]

VanNatta Cattle at Battle Ground Brought Top Prices.

Fifty-seven Herefordis sold at J. W. VanNatta’s sale at Battle Ground Thursday for an average of $844.29, the fourteen bulls selling at an average of $629.86, and the forty-three cows at an average of $847.08. Second only <to McCray’s sale on Wednesday, VanNatta’s sale sets a record for local Hereford prices. That buyers were present from all over the country is indicated by the fact that only twenty-seven of the animals remained in Indiana, the majority of the remainder going to the southern states. Of those that went out of Indiana, Georgia diaimed the most, taking eight, Kentucky five, Illinois four, Missouri and lowa each three, Kansas two and Ohio one. Qpouch & Son, of Lafayette, bought three cows and a bull. The top bull brought $3,000, Tippecanoe Ideal going to John M. Herndon, of Centralia, IM. The top cow went for $1,700. The sale was well attended.