ABERDEEN ANGUS SALE TUESDAY
RECENT SUCCESSES OF THE BREED
South Island Aberdeen Angus breeders will have their annual show and sale at Addington on Tuesday. The breed has lately been to the fore in Australia, where it dominated the carcase contests at the Royal Melbourne Show-
In the championship, the breed took the first six. places. The champion steer of the show on hoof and hook aggregate was exhibited by H. and S. Docker,. Bonthorambo, Wangaratta, Victoria.
“How can they beat the Aberdeen Angus in the Royal Show carcase competitions?” says Frank O’Loghlen, editor of “Country Life.” “That is the question that is exercising the minds of champions of other breeds snce the final results of the splendd Melbourne Royal champion ‘export* steer.” At Dannevirke recently, South Island breeders had some success. A. Elliott, of Seddon, took second and third places in the led two-year-old class and D. Gould, with Samson of Glenmark, was second to Donald Grant in a led yearling class of 39 entries. Mr Gould’s bull was sold for 950 guineas.
Run two-year-old bulls have been averaging between 300 and 350 guineas at bull fairs in the North Island, and with the premium for early maturing baby beef and for chilled beef, it is expected that there will be an increased demand for Aberdeen Angus bulls in the South Island this year.
The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that because of America’s increasing population—7ooo persons per day—meat production will have to be expanded to about 25 billion pounds by 1960 if meat consumption is to be maintained at a level of around 145 pounds per person per year. At the recent annual meeting of the American National Live Stock and Meat Board, the president of the American Meat Institute, Mr Wesley Hardenbergh, said that for the first half of 1953 it was estimated that beef consumption in that country would amount to 741 b per person on an annual rate basis compared with 581 b per head in. the first six months of
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 5
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