SALE OF JERSEY CATTLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8516, 22 August 1907, Page 5

SALE OF JERSEY CATTLE.

RECORD PRICES. By Telegraph—Press Association. NEW PLYMUOTH, August 21. Events would seem to show that in Taranaki at least there is no disposition to rely on the statement often repeated lately that the demand for the Jersey breed of cattle is a passing craze likely to go out of fashion.

At the unreserved sale of Mr Watkins' Jersey strain here, to-day, prices were realised which are believed to establish a record for the colony. Pedigree cows in milk sold, one at £3O and two at ,£4O each. Pedigree springing- cows sold at, respectively, £25, £43, £24,£36, £3l, £29, £l4, £44, £35, £45, £55, £22, and a four-year-old cow by Goldfinch realised £lO4. Springing heifers made £22, £24, £27, £39, £46. Yearling heifers £l9, £2l, £22, £24, £27, £2B. Calves £6, £l6, £ls, £lB, £2O, £23, £2l, £l9, £l7, £4O. The imported pedigree bull "Yankee Sweet" fetched £125. Other bulls from seven months "o twojyears sold at £l2, £ls, £l7, £2l, £23, £26, £3l, £3B, £46. for grade Jersey cattle a large number of yearling heifers brought from £4 5s to £lO. Buyers hailed from all over the West Coast, and the purebred Jersey herd is being sold to-morrow.

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