SHOWS AND SALES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20501, 18 May 1938, Page 13

SHOWS AND SALES

Ha:.. . Mock Sale: Every Tuesday. Momii&wiie Stock Sale: Every Friday. Cambridge Stock Sale: Every Monday. Te Aw&mutu Stock Sale: Every Thursday. Store Sheep Sale, Frankton: Every Wednesday. Waikato Winter Show: June 1 to 9. STEADY MARKETS VALUES IN WAIKATO GOOD SUPPLIES FORWARD LATE RATES REPEATED Fat cattle are forward In slightly Increased numbers and values tend to appreciate. A good demand Is shown for store oattle. Dairy heifers continue In keen request. More fat sheep are available and values have Improved. Late rates are repeated for bacon era. Heavy porkers make unchanged money, but light sorts are sometimes cheaper. A keener market for store pigs la reported at some centres. There has been little change of note in Waikato stork markets during the week, but the general tone has been brighter than the previous | week. A freer trade has been experienced for fat sheep, while in other sections values have tended to improve A keen demand persists for dairy heifers and paddock sales from £9 to £lO are frequently reported. Beef Brighter An improved tone has marked the beef market during the week and trade generally has not been as j as the previous week. ' Butchers have operated more freely at the saleyards where increased supplies have generally been available. Choice quality cattle, when they are forward, are invariably in animated request and these sorts have made increased mone> this week The en- j try at Morrinsville on Friday . was ■ only a small one and. although there I was little to tempt buyers as far as duality was concerned, no difficulty vvas experienced in obtaining values on a par with those current the previous week. The market at the central vards yesterday was distinctly better a id this may have been due as m icli as anything else to the improved quality of the entries. This applied to the ox beef section rather than to the cow and heifer beef section, where quality was sometimes poor. Fat Sheep Trade The estimate that the farmers of the Waikato have lost £IOO.OOO byreason of the fact that they have had ( to sell their fat sheep at a fraction «.f thur usual value because of facial eczema, is a staggering one This ft cure is not necessarily accurate, but it ha.* been given by a competent author*?? who Is ‘ntlmately connected with the fat slo.-k trade. His estimate does at least convey some idea of how the market has been affpefed by the facial eczema epidemic. However. there is now a greater feeling of confidence, this happy state of affairs having been brought about largely through the fact that vendors have been sellintr their sheep under guarantee. This has not only meant that butchers are buying with more confidence and paying ad\anced values, but further it means that farmers are brincing onlv the best quality sheep been forward at the yards and all classes have been freely traded durinc the week, but naturally enough entries have been only moderate in size. Keen Market for Pigs The smaller number of fat pigs forward at the yards has resulted in values being maintained without difficulty at all centres. Limited entries of baconers meet the same keen demand as last week and a top price of B£s has been obtained at all yards, with 80s being realised on one occasion at the Waihou sale. Light porkers have not commanded quite the same attention as last week, but medium and heavy weight sorts have i store pigs have sold at advanced prices. Effect of Environment =o much attention is—rightly— by breeders to the importance of a recorded pedigree in stock production that they are apt to lose si«ht of the fact that there are other factors which influence the stock they produce ?uch a factor is environment. The quality of all animal? depends, not onlv upon their breeding inheritance .but upon their environment. The term environment is us p d here in the very broadest sense, and tefers to all surroundincs. conditions, influences and forces. of whatever nature, by whleh animals are Influenced and modifier) in th».r erowth and development. From this -t will be that there are many faetors. Indeed, to b eonsidered under environment, the principal ones fine food, housing and exercise Environment plays a much greater part in the individual or animal fhan "-as formerly believed Hi' f »-• - ■ 1 generally of the opinion that ii is a .treater factor in It?, than heredity F.vperiments at th. I'nive-sty of Chicago, it is believed have pro*.en that we c<»n mak the child, of any kind of parent, what we Will if we plaec him m the proper environment the fTrst ten s f,ars5 \ f ' life: that twins un-ler dlreetly different environment will be total!. di««imi'ar. cv-.pt as to hod-.- m-asur*-nd tl -- ire due to pre-nata ■r r -fbo nut'll ed individual the result the characters b" r n m him. or inherited, plus S-Kh £44 a deflcieney m breeding, but h. . hrnficp t* disappointing un- ;;, r rr..spossible opportunity for sound crnvvth W hen > t p ra ■■ 4 rroduei? of th- bre-d-r = art arc" h, ‘ thev are on ac ount of envtronment as .. i y t . If I ntlit • nilronment had L j. .. nroductfon. from

tvto came of the 1 various breeds of domectir animals, that even the various raers of men are the re suit of environment to some extent, it should he e\;d p nt to all that greater thought and study should be riven this subject than bas previously been done. To be sure, human selection has done its part in the moulding of | the various breeds, but environment i has been fully as responsible as selec- ' tion.