AUCTION SALES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 10

AUCTION SALES

TO-DAY. 98 Manners Street, 10.30 a.m.—Sale of Christmas toys (Ramsey Wilson and Co.) , , . 6 Ebor Street, 10.30 a.m.—Sale of machinery (C. W. Price). 91 Dixon Street, 1.30 p.m—bale of furniture (C. W. Price). LONDON TALLOW SALES Australian Press Assn — United Servlce.i (Rec. December 20, 5.5 p.m) London, December 19. At the tallow sales, 598 casks were o - fered, and 163 were sold. Frees were from unchanged to 6d. per cwt. decline, bine mutton 455. 6d. per cwt.. m edil ! in 405 tine beef, 445. Cd, medium 395. 66. SHIPMENTS OF LAMB FROM AUSTRALIA The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received a cablegram from its representative in Australia, advising that 73,705 carcasses of lamb were exported from Australia for the week ended December 14. OUTSTANDING GRADE COW The following letter has been received bv the New Zealand Friesian Association from Mr. A. R. Weal, of Pukeatua, Te Awamutu: —“I notice in the September issue of the ‘N.Z. Dairyman' that a grade Jersey cow put up a record of 105.2251 b. butter-fat for 30 days, and this is claimed to be a record or close to one for a grade cow. Last season, during October, one of my grade Friesians produced 105.841 b. butter-£at in 30 days, giving 3141 b. milk of a morning and ol| lb. at night with a 5.6 test. This test was taken by the testing officer of the Waikato Valley Herd Testing Association. The cow was machine milked and ran with a herd of 65 cows, which were all fed on pasture grass only. Shortly after this test I dehorned this cow, and she was bad for some time after, which considerably affected her season’s record. However, her final figures were 541.221 b. fat in 261 days.”