Pleasant Grove Review | 1952-01-11 | Page 3 | Chicago Feeder Sale Nets over $1 Million

Chicago Feeder Sale Nets Over $1 Million 257 Carloads Feeder Calves Are Exhibited A record 257 carloads of feeder calves sold for well over a million dollars at the 7th annual Chicago Feeder Cattle Show and Sale, held at the Chicago Stock Yards. Largest feeder cattle event in the nation, the expanding show and sale entry list exceeded last year's record rec-ord by over a hundred carloads. It also pointed up the expanding beef industry and the interest in improved im-proved breeding. The grand champion carload of feeder calves in the show were exhibited ex-hibited by veteran cattleman Fred ' ' 4 UwwAA. vtti.o&..t v.W(W4. T Mr. and Mrs. Fred DeBerard pose with their blocky Hereford calves that were judged grand champion carload of the Chicago Chi-cago Feeder Cattle Show and Sale. C. DeBarard of Kremmling, Col. A Wanatah, Indiana, cattle feeder, bought DeBerard's blocky prize-winning prize-winning Herefords for ""5 per cwt. The grand champion calves averaged aver-aged 428 pounds. The auction brought an average of $42.11 per cwt. for 257 loads of cattle, $4.69 per cwt. higher than last year's ' average. The average weight was 485 pounds. Sales totaled $1,050,633. Steer calves, numbering 132 loads, average $46.48 per cwt. while 50 carloads of heifer calves averaged $44.15 per cwt.