High Prices For Bulls

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29900, 14 August 1962, Page 3

High Prices For Bulls

The grand champion Aberdeen Angus bull at the recent Palermo show at Buenos Aires was sold in three minutes for a little more than ilB.ooogns. . The bull. Beltza ,1577 of Count Brio, was bought by Acelain S.A. and .Moromar ranch. Reporting this. Dalgety and New Zealand Loan. Ltd.'s Argentine spokesman says .that the Argentine Government's banking credit policy and a severe drought affected bidding. At the 1963 show and auction the top price bull realised a record price of 47,619gn5.

I In Britain the former principal and founder of the Adelaide College of Music. Sir Ellerton Becker, has paid £25.100 for a Hereford bull —a record price for a bull of this breed in the United ’Kingdom. The bull, Vern Logic, belonged to the stud of Captain R. S. de Q. Quincey, near Hereford. Sir Ellerton Becker has also bought Lord Brocket’s herd of 223 pedigree Herefords and his holding of more than 600 acres at Tarrington, in Herefordshire. He said that his aim was to improve Hereford cattle in Britain and Australia. Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd.’s stud stock officer in the United Kingdom said that the cattle would be used in a project incorporating a selection of Poll Herefords which Sir Ellerton Becker was importing to Britain from his stud, Brewarrana, Narrandera.