VERY HIGH PRICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1943, Page 2

VERY HIGH PRICES

BEING PAID FOR LIVESTOCK IN BRITAIN. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) 1 y S LONDON, March 18. Extraordinarily high prices for pedigree farm stock and also heavy horses are being ■ realised at sales throughgout Britain. Heavy horses are needed for town, work because of the petrol restrictions, and for farms because of the increased food drive Prices for dairy cattle reflect the demand for a higher milk output. Twelve hundred guineas was paid for a Guernsey bull, which is 700 guineas above the previous record. The purchaser, Mr C. E. Harvey, a noted Northamptonshire dairy-farmer, intends to use the bull for crossing with his British Friesian herd \vith a view to establishing a new breed, combining the butterfat qualities of the Guernsey with the high milk yield Fifiesian cattle at another sale averaged £l5l with the top price at 520 guineas. Incidentally the milk production of the country for the fourth year of the war was a record for the Milk Market-, ing Board. Six million more gallohs of milk were produced and sold last month than in February, 1942. ______