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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 40, 10 November 1921, Page 8

Having scooped up (he championships at Palmerston in the and Yorkshires, Mr. Carter, farm manager at the Porirua Mental Hospital, is well pleased with tho result of the thirteenth year’s showing by the farm so far. He takes exception, however, to tho statement in The Dominion report as io the farm stock being inclined to lightness in the hams. Tim hospital stock, Mr. Oerter declares, will compo.ro with any in tho country in this respect, nnd it is impossible to think, he adds, that the judges at the shows would have given them championships year rafter year had they Ixon weak in tho first point a farmer looks for in valuing a pig. Mogsra. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., had a. fair entry at Marton sale on Tues, day. most’ of which was sold at the following rates:—M.S. woolly hoggets, 10s.: shorn do., small. 7s. 4d., 7s. lid.; cull do.. 6=.: 4-tooth ewes. 125.: 4-tooth wethers, 125.; fat owes. 135., 145.; store cows. 355.. £2; fat bullocks. £5; bulls. 355. £6 A big entry of weaner pigs Bold well a* prices from 14s. to 325. 6d.