STUD SALE.
CATTLE AND SHEEP. GOOD PRICES SECURED. By Telagraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. Mr. W. D. Hunt’s second annual sale of stud Friesian cattle and Romney sheep to-day and was highly successful. The attendance, despite the bad weather, was very large, the prices, in view of the stringency in the money market, exceeding all anticipations. Australian and North Island buyers were operating but local breeders were keen competitors. The top price was 230 guineas paid for a three-year-old heifer bred by the vendor, purchased by T. Eades, Southland A three months heifer calf was sold to Australia for 92 guineas. Bull calves sold at 110 guineas (D. Shand, Otago), lOOgns (R Levin, jun., Masterton), lOOgns (F. Price, Southland). Thirty-two bull calves averaged 44 guineas. Forty-four Friesians realised 2304 guineas. Rams, for so large a number, sold exceptionally well, the top price for stud rams being 90 guineas, and two hundred two-tooth ’ flock’ rams averaged 4| gns. Two hundred and twenty two-tooths realised 1028 guineas, the sheep all remaining in Otago and Southland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1921, Page 5
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173STUD SALE. Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1921, Page 5
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