Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1908 — Another Cracking Sale. [ARTICLE]

Another Cracking Sale.

F. P. Morton, who held a sale Thursday, had one of the best sales reported this year, and prices were very satisfactory. Mr. Morton reld a sale last spring and based on that experience and taking in account the panic conditions he had invoiced his stuff before the sale, and made it alittle over $1,400. He was, therefore, very agreeably snrprised when told by the clerk that :it totaled only a little less than $1,700. His four cows ranged in price from $52 to S7O, one team of horses brought $225, and his Duroc Jersey hogs brought an average of S2O. Thru'an advertisement in the Republican's classified column, Mrs. Murton had sold her fine White Holland turkeys at prices ranging from $2.50 to $4 each. Mr. Morton has been a high grade farmer, raising only the very best stock of all kind?, and there has always been a ready market for what he had to sell. He now intends to quit farming and will move to Goodland next week, and will probably engage in business there a little later.