BULL WITH ONE HORN
SELLING AT 3100 GUINEAS J i _______ BREAKS 23 YEARS' RECORDS Records of 25 years' standing were beaten when a bull sold at the British Friesian Cattle Society's Annual Show and sale made 3100 guineas. He was Mr W. G. Player's Ednaston Zwarthak 25th., and, despite the recent loss of a horn, he won the championship and made the highest price in a sale at which the 70 animals offered realised £27,630, an average of no less than £39-1 per head. This compares with an average of £125 in 1940 and £G0 in 1937. Two other bulls ran into four figures, the Hodge Bros., Fintloch Knight being sold at 1350 guineas and Mr T. El. Beckett's Hales Zwart Thane at 1000 guineas. The highest priced female was Fintlcch Juliana 4th., also from the Hodge Bros. Although breeders found these sensational prices highly gratifying, they believe that the real success of this British Friesian festival was the combination of great individual merit with exceptional milk and butterfat production. It is noteworthy that the qualified females averaged exactly twice the price of those which did not qualify by the milk and butterfat of their two nearest dams.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 38, 10 April 1942, Page 2
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198BULL WITH ONE HORN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 38, 10 April 1942, Page 2
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