Live Meat for England.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 278, 29 May 1895, Page 2

Live Meat for England.

o Mr C. Gr. Tripp, of the Orari Gorge, has forwarded to us an extract from the West Somerset Free Press — an account of . stock sales at Taunton — which shows how much th«3e colonies have to gain from the successful shipment of live cattle and sheep to England. Thirty - four fat Down and cross-bred hoggets and ewes from one farm made, we read, up to 54s per head, 1 pen going to a local dealer at this price ; 2 pens of fat hoggets from , another farm were both secured by the same purchaser at 50s ; fat ewes ; made 455, 46s 6d (twice) and 49s ; 1 2 pens of store hoggets 37s 6d and 36s ; others selling at 35s (twice), 34s and 33s 6d. In the cattle market beef was a small supply and a slow trade. Three small fat heifers realised £15 15s, £15 2s 6d and £14 ; £12 5s to £11 ss; in-calvers, £13 ; heifers and calve 3, £15 ss, £14, &c ; six calves, £l 10s, £1 Bs, £l 6s, £1 ss, £1 Is and £1. At another sale reported in the Free Press, 3 pens of fat hoggets made 565,' 56s and 55s 6d per head per pen ; 30 do. 49s 6d, 48s Gd (twice) ; 20 do, averaged 45s 6d ; 15 do, 56s ; 10 fat ewes, 56s ; 3 pens of small fat hoggets 45s 6d, 45s and 41s 6d per head j 10 fat grand ewes 575, 10 fat hoggets, 40s 6d ; fat ewes, 45s ; fat lambs, 3Os per head. la the cattle market, 3 capital fat steers averaged £17 per head ; 2 fat steers, £15, £\2 15s; 2 grazing steers, £9 per head ; 2 barren heifers £10 10s, £10 los ; fresh barrener, £13 ; capital Jersey heifer, £8 los ; capital heifer and calf, £22, &c. Mr Tripp very truly remarks that if fat Down and cross-bred hoggets are worth £2 14s apiece, in England, it must pay better to send them there alive than to kill them here and accept the prices that are offered for our frozen mutton. Mr Tripp evidently shares this | opinion, and we have no doubt that stock-owners all over the colony will see the vast importance of keeping pace with the enterprise of the shippers on the other side of the Tasman Sea. — Christchurch Star.