SALE OF DAIRY CATTLE.
There was a good attendance and keen competition at the sale of Mr N. Dickey's dairy herd, Otumoetai. yesterday. The top price, £17, was realised for a grade Jersey cow, and was paid by Mr Swainson Ngatai. Other prices were as follows: £10, £15 ss, £14 ss, £13 10s, £10.155, £10, £9 15s, £9 10^, £9 5s £8 15s, £8 10s; others from £5 to .£B, the highest price being paid for grade Jerseys. Two Ayrshire heifers brought £10 10s and £9 Other springing heifers made from £6 5s to £9 15s The average for the whole herd of cows and heifers was nearly £10. The purebred Ayrshire bull, King Robert, went to Mr Me Cready of Taneatua, at £15. Pigs sold as under: Devon sow, £2 15s ; Yorkshire sow, £2 10s; Berkshire sows, £1 7s, £1 13s, £1 15s; Yorkshire boar, £1 10s; 11 Yorkshire weaners, 8s; porkers, 16s fid to 19s. A 100 gallon turbine separator and boiler made £30. The farming properties were all passed in.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5581, 29 July 1910, Page 3
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