Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1917 — Mississippi Herefords Bring Big Prices. [ARTICLE]

Mississippi Herefords Bring Big Prices.

That Mississippi is coming to the front as a caitle raising state was evidenced last Friday when 120 lots of Herefords sold by Vernon T. Davis, executor of the estate of the late W, J. Davis, of Jackson, Miss., brought a total of $109,885, or an average of $915 per lot. The Hereford lots were scattered as follows: 25 to Mississippi, seven to Arkansas, two to Tennessee, sixteen to Alabama, 12 to Georgia, 12 to Kentucky, 1 to Oklahoma, 4 to Texas, 5 to South Carolina, 4 to Missouri, 13 to New Jersey, 1 to Kansas, 2 to lowa and 3 ito Indiana. Vernon Prince, a bull, brought 15,000. Frank Fox, of Indianapolis, •aid $1,450 for one of the animals. Mississippi is becoming noted as a cattle state many head of cattle from Texas and other ‘cattle states are being-shipped there to be wintered on the abundant glass of that state and re escape the cold winter of other states.