For many years, the bureau relied on adoption events that resembled traditional livestock auctions.

In livestock auctions where sheep, cattle, pigs and other livestock are sold.

It was used for livestock auctions by day and musical theater performances by night.

But to the uninitiated, what transpired on the field was as opaque as a livestock auction.

The biggest action in town these days is a weekly livestock auction.

In the early 1900s the county was the site of the major livestock auction for central Kentucky.

There is also a livestock auction and flea market, venues that are unique for the area.

Avard had mercantile establishments, two hotels, a bank, a livestock auction, and an elevator.

He set up a booth at rodeos, county fairs, trade shows, saddle shops, and livestock auctions.

No machine-gun monotone of the kind one hears at, say, a livestock auction.