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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2831, 24 July 1916, Page 8

FEILDING MARKET. Messrs. Atkinson and Co.. Ltd., report values considerably higher for pigs and jioultry. Good veauer pigs made from 17s. to 235. 6d.; stores. 245. to 355.; sows, to X 5. Laying hens, Bs. 9d. to 30s. 3d. pai£; others, ss. to 75.; roosters, ss. to Bs. 3d.; purebred, 10s.; ducks, 75.; table potatoes, 10s. to 14s. sack; pig, 3s. 6d. to 45.; pumpkins. 7s. to Bs. sack; apples, 6s. to 7s. c.i-se; pressed hay £5 to £5 10s. per ton; chaff, £5 10s. to £5 155.; -wheat Straw chaff, 305.; seed potatoes. Bs. to 12s. per cwt. Seconds building timber, 7s. to Bs. per hundred feet. > SALE OP PEDIGREE AYE SHIRE CATTLE. The attention of those interested in Ayrshire uattio is drawn to an advertisement, appearing iu this fcssuo showing particular!) of a sale of the "Greenfields" Ayrshires, to be held at the Pulnierston North sale yards on Thursday next, on account of Messrs. Webb and Sons, Koputaroa. The three cows include Springtime of Greenfields, whose dam Heather Jill at 11 years of age produced 4961b. of butterfat under semi-official test. Amongst the inree-year heifers are Greenfields Princess Flora, whose dam Flossie produced under semi-official tost 57Zlb. this season; Greenfields Peerless Stalely, who gained first prize as a two-year-old at Hawke's Bay, and whoso dam Bonny Stately produced 3571b. fat in ten mouths, also Greenfields Princess Heather, whose dam Lady Heather as a four-year-old returned 4051b. of fat. There are five choice two-year-old heifers- in tho catalogue, including Greenfields StriUa, whoso grand dam as a four-year-old "under semi-official tost save over 90001b. of milk, yielding 3571b. butter-fat. All tho females bins been bred to the well-known bull Ecu of Glenaig. Tho three-year-old bulls are Greenfields Blast, first prize-taker at Hawke's Bay show as a yearling, and Greenfields Lord Stately. Two yearling bulls are comprised in tho offering, and as the owner has enlisted for the front the Eale, which will comlncnco at 11.30 o'clock sharp, will bo practically -without reserve, and will be conducted by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., auctioneer;. ' We note with' interest that all the best prizes for cheese at tho Palmorston Show and the best prices in the London market were obtained by those makers who uso Victor Vats. These famous vats embody a new principle of middle drainnge —worth while investigating. A. J. Parton, Dairyman, Carterton.—Advt ,