STUD CATTLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 4

STUD CATTLE

HEAVY ARGENTINE IMPORTS FROM BRITAIN. OUTLAY OF £40,000 THIS YEAR. Home breeders of pedigree cattle continue to find Argentina their most important overseas market, the agricultural correspondent of the Dundee ‘•Courier and Advertiser” observed recently. “With the completion of the annual pedigree bull sales a review ol the trade shows (ho added) that in the past six weeks 150 pedigree bulls have been purchased in this country for export to Argentina. ".Again this year Argentina is fai ahead of any other country or Dominion as a purchaser of British bulls. “Scottish breeders of the paramount breeds—Aberdeen-Angus and Shorthorns —have enjoyed a big share of the trade. “Taking principal sales in Scotland and England, one finds that there weie 83 bulls of the Aberdeen-Angus, Shorthorn. and Hereford breeds purchased for Argentina at an approximate cost of 17,300 guineas. In addition, an almost equivalent number of pedigiee bulls have been bought privately. “Assuming an average cost of commission, insurance, and freight, of 711 guineas for each animal, it is estimated the aggregate sum expended by Argentine livestock breeders on British bulls ' this year is £40.000. | “Further evidence of the fact that I Argentine producers rely on our stock ; to maintain a high grade pt cattle.