We sold nine more calves the
end of June, for $104. Mr. Tom must have a lot of money for you, for in
August we sold the finest bunch of shoates you ever saw,--312 of them.
They were not extra heavy, but they were fine as silk. Mr. Tom said they
netted $4.15 per hundred, and they averaged a little over 260 pounds. I
went down with them, and the buyers tumbled over each other to get them.
I was mighty proud of the bunch, and brought back a check for $3407."
"Good for you, Thompson! That's the best sale yet."
"Some of the heifers will be coming in the last of this month or the
first of next. Don't you want to get rid of those five scrub cows?"
"Better wait six weeks, and then you may sell them. Do you know where
you can place them?"
"Jackson was looking at them a few days ago, and said he would give $35
apiece for them; but they are worth more."
"Not for us, Thompson, and not for him, either, if he saw things just
right. They're good for scrubs; but they don't pay well enough for us,
and if he wants them he can have them at that price about the middle of
October.
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